10. Tablet, 12 December 1936, p. 824
it. Japan Times, 'British crisis great human drama', 11 December 1936; cutting in PRO, FO, 262/1929
iz. Japan Advertiser, 'Prominent women criticize decision', 12 December
1936; cutting in PRO, FO, 262/1929
T3. John W. Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, pp. 294-5
14. Letter from London to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/
ABD, Boxes 7-9
15. Letter from Denbigh to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9
16. Letter from South London to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9
17. T. C. Vigil to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 9
18. Mrs Doris M. Devereux to King Edward VIII, n.d., RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9
19. Betty Williams to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 9
20. Letter from Walsall to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
21. Mrs S. Kendall to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 9
22. John W. Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, pp. 294-5
23. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, pp. 413-14
24. Diary of Anthony Heap, 11 December 1936, Acc. 2243/9/1
25. Diary of Violet Almgill Dickinson, 13 December 1936
26. Letter from Birkenhead to the Duke of Windsor, 11 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9
27. Reginald Ball to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
28. Diary entry, 13 December 1936, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, p. 43
29. Ronald Tree, When the Moon was High, p. 66
30. Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 829
31. Quoted in Ibid., p. 830
32. James Agate, Diary entry for 11 December 1936, Ego 3, p. 62
33. Diary of David Strain, 11 December 1936, PRONI, D2585/3/16
34. Elizabeth Perkins to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8
35. M. Gilmour to the Duke of Windsor, 13 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
36. E. B. Williamson to the Duke of Windsor, 13 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8
37. 'Giovanni' to the Duke of Windsor, 12 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8
38. Diary of Violet Milner, 11 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5
39. Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 174
40. Ramsay MacDonald, diary entry for 12 December 1936, PRO, PRO 30/69,1753
41. Diary of Cecil Scott Turner, 11 December 1936, Acc/1385
42. Diary of Florence Turtle, 11 December 1936
43. Diary of Anthony Heap, n December 1936, Acc. 2243/91
44. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, p. 278
45. Diary notes by Julia M. Shaw for May-June 1937, Julia M. Shaw Papers, DB71/8/9/10-11
46. Wallis Simpson to Sibyl Colefax, 18 December 1936, in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 222
47. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, p. 278
48. Wallis Simpson to Duke of Windsor, n.d. [12 December 1936], in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 231
49. Quoted in J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George and the abdication of Edward VIII', pp. 89-90.
50. Marc Friedman to King Edward VIII, 12 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 9
51. Margaret Case Harriman, 'The King and the girl from Baltimore', p. 366
52. Harry H. S. Phillips to the Duke of Windsor, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 9
53. John Gunther to Margot Asquith, 12 December 1936, Margot Asquith Papers, MS Eng 6676
54. John Gunther, Inside Europe, p. 259
55. J. Bryan III and Charles J. V. Murphy, The Windsor Story, p. 286
56. Diary entry, 10 December 1936, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, p. 40
57. Diary of Nancy Dugdale, p. 74, Nancy Dugdale Papers
58. John Buchan to Edith Londonderry, 6 January 1937, PRONI, D3099/3/ 16/57
59. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
60. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 12 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
61. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
62. Ibid.
63. John Buchan to Edith Londonderry, 6 January 1937, PRONI, D3099/3/ 16/57
64. Diary of John George Harmer, 12 December 1936, Acc. 6220/B0X 9
65. 'Schoolteacher' to King Edward VIII, 11 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 7-9
66. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
67. Baden-Powell to King Edward VIII, 10 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 10
68. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
69. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 12 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
70. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
71. Telegram from Linlithgow to Zetland 12 December 1936, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.15
72. Urban District Council, Kurunegala, to Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor, Colombo, 9 February 1937; Governor to W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, T6 February; subject of memo by Gerald Creasy, PRO, CO 323/1522/6
73. Trinidad Citizens League to Governor of Trinidad, 25 January 1937; Governor to W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore; subject of a memo by E. B. Boyd, Colonial Office, 8 March 1937, PRO, CO 323/1522/6
74. M. G. McDonnell to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6
75. de Valera to Baldwin, 5 December 1936, PRO, DO 121/39
76. Telegram from de Valera to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, PRO DO 121/38
77. 'The abdication of His Majesty King Edward VIII, Correspondence with the Dominions, Part 1', PRO, DO 114/81
78. Winston Churchill to Geoffrey Dawson, 12 December 1936, quoted in Martin S. Gilbert, Companion to Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 485
79. Buccleuch to Dawson, 10 December 1936, Bodleian Library, D, MS Dawson 79, fol. 56
80. Alec Hardinge to Dawson, 14 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fol. 84
81. Lascelles to Dawson, 13 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fol. 80
82. Sybil Colefax to Bernard Berenson, n.d. [1937], Berenson Papers, File CS 1936-1938
83. Geoffrey Wells, diary entry for n December 1936, Geoffrey H. Wells Papers, Add. 60562
84. Quoted in Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 825
85. Quoted in Ibid., p. 820
86. W. W. Buckley to Winston Churchill, 13 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-A
87. Lord Hamilton of Dalzell to Winston Churchill, n December 1936, quoted in Martin Gilbert, Companion to Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 481
88. Duff Cooper, Old Men Forget, pp. 201-2
89. Lord Harewood, The Tongs and the Bones, p. 17
90. Diary of John George Harmer, 10 December 1936, Acc. 6220/B0X 9
91. Alan Turing to his mother, 1/2 January [1937], Alan Turing Papers, AMT/ K/1/51
92. Diary of Geoffrey Wells, 12 December 1936, Geoffrey H. Wells Papers, Add. 60562
93. Letter from Manchester to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9
94. Sydney Labor Daily, 4 December 1936
95. Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience, p. 163
96. Quoted in J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George and the abdication of Edward VIII', pp. 89-90
97. Hugh Ross Williamson to the editor, Time and Tide, 19 December 1936
98. Lewis Crosthwaite to King Edward VIII, 14 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 4
99. Oliver Turpin to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8
100. Edwin Plevin to Winston Churchill, 14 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/598-A
101. Bernard Shaw to John G. Moore, 23 June 1937, in Dan H. Laurence (ed.), Bernard Shaw, p. 469
102. Tom Jeffery, Mass-Ob
servation, pp. 1-3
103. Humphrey Jennings etal., May the Twelfth, p. 302
104. Ibid., p. 281
105. Thomas Jones, A Diary with Letters, p. 299
106. John Gunther to Margot Asquith, 12 December 1936, Margot Asquith Papers, MS Eng 6676
107. Sent with letter from Wisconsin to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
108. The Voice, 12 December 1936
109. Boyd-Shannon to Sir Harry Batterbee, 13 December 1936, PRO, PREM 1/462
no. Sir Harry Batterbee to Horace Wilson, 5 January 1937, PRO, PREM 1/462
HI. Sydney Morning Herald, 10 December 1936, quoted in Compton Mackenzie, The Windsor Tapestry, p. 501 IIZ. H. V. Evatt to Winston Churchill, iz December 1936, quoted in Martin S. Gilbert, Companion to Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 487
113. 'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at 10 Downing Street', n.d. [late December 1936 or early 1937], CAB 1Z7/157
114. Entry for z8 December 1936, Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, pp. 36Z-3
115. Quoted from Elizabeth Longford in Penelope Mortimer, Queen Elizabeth, p. 143, footnote
116. Diana Vreeland, D. V., p. 74
117. Quoted in Christopher Warwick, George and Marina, p. 104
118. Janet Flanner, An American in Paris, p. 46
119. Diana Vreeland, D. V., p. 74
120. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 415
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'Rat Week'
I. Amen, The End of a Tragic Chapter in British Imperial History, British Movietone News newsreel, 14 December 1936
z. Diary of Mary Elizabeth King, iz December 1936, MS 1547/15
3. Geoffrey Dawson, personal diary, 13 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 40
4. Robert Bernays to Lucy Brereton, Z3 December 1936, The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays, p. z81
5. Diary of Florence Turtle, iz December 1936
6. Lucy Baldwin, diary entry for iz December 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers
7. J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George and the abdication of Edward VIII', p. 96
8. Cover of Saturday Review, 19 December 1936
9. Diary of Geoffrey Wells, iz December 1936, Add. 6056Z
10. Queen Elizabeth to Cosmo Lang, copied out by A. C. Don, Lambeth Palace, quoted in Geordie Greig, Louis and the Prince, p. Z67
II. Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 338
12. Quoted in J. G. Lockhart, Cosmo Gordon Lang, p. 405
13. Diary of Florence Turtle, 13 December 1936
14. Diary of Jan Longley, 13 December 1936, 25694/zi
15. George M. Trevelyan to Mary C. Trevelyan, 16 December 1936, Mary Moorman Papers, 1/4/Z4
16. Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience, p. 163John Gunther, Inside Europe, p. 263
17. J. G. Lockhart, Cosmo Gordon Lang, p. 404; Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 338
18. Kingsley Martin, The Crown and the Establishment, p. 113
19. Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII, p. 298
20. Telegram from 'Hooper Wye Kent' to Lord Brownlow, 17 December 1936, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/7/10
21. Quoted in Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII, p. 298
22. Diary entry, 13 December 1936, Parliament and Politics.. . The Headlam Diaries, p. 104
23. Diary of Herbert M. Willmott, 13 December 1936, F/Wim/16
24. Alan Turing to his mother, 1/2 January [1937], Alan Turing Papers, AMT/ K/1/51
25. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 331
26. Entry for 14 December 1936, The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, p. 362
27. Winston Churchill to Duke of Windsor, 17 December 1936, quoted in Martin S. Gilbert, Companion to Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 493
28. Memorandum of 15 December, quoted in J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George and the abdication of Edward VIII', p. 103
29. P. Thomas to Stanley Baldwin, 17 December 1936, Baldwin Papers, Vol. 147
30. Miss Annie M. Smith to Stanley Baldwin, 14 December 1936, Baldwin Papers, Vol. 147
31. Mrs Ritson Richer to Stanley Baldwin, 20 December 1936, Baldwin Papers, Vol. 147
32. Ernest [?]Baker to Winston Churchill, 16 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-A
33. Louise Thibault to Winston Churchill, 17 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/598-B
34. Diary of Geoffrey Wells, 13 December 1936, Add. 60562
35. Richard Hough, Edwina, p. 133
36. Ibid.
37. Diana Vreeland, D.V., pp. 73-5
38. Ibid.
39. Lucy Baldwin, diary entry for 18 December 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers
40. Brownlow to Cromer, 23 December 1936, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/6/11
41. Mrs E. Hedges to Lord Brownlow, n.d. [December 1936], Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/7/14Wallis Simpson to Perry Brownlow, 18 December 1936, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/3
42. Wallis Simpson to Duke of Windsor, 12 December 1936, in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 231
43. Quoted in Greg King, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 249
44. Diary entry, 22 December 1936, Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, p. 104
45. Elizabeth R [Queen Elizabeth] to Lady Londonderry, 31 May 1937, PRONI, D3099/3/13/26
46. Alec Hardinge to Dawson, 14 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fol. 84
47. George M. Trevelyan to Mary C. Trevelyan, 16 December 1936, Mary Moorman Papers, 1/4/24
48. Richard Hough, Edwina, p. 133
49. Introduction by John Pearson to Osbert Sitwell, Rat Week, pp. 14-15
50. Osbert Sitwell, Rat Week, pp. 58-60
51. Sybil Colefax to Bernard Berenson, n.d., quoted in Kirsty McLeod, A Passion for Friendship, p. 149
52. Martin S. Gilbert, Companion to Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 451
53. Somerset Maugham to Charles Hanson Towne, 18 March 1937, Charles Hanson Towne Papers
54. Duff Cooper, Old Men Forget, p. 202
55. Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill, p. 274
56. Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 7 January 1937, in Mary Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, p. 423
57. Diary entry for 26 February 1937, Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, p. 116
58. Time, 21 December 1936
59. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
60. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 12 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
61. Sir Francis Floud to Malcolm MacDonald, 22 December 1936, PRO, DO 3/531/2
62. Francis Stephenson to Theodore Goddard, 14 December 1936, PRO, PREM 1/460
63. 'Notes of the evidence given at the hearing of the petition', for the King's Proctor, PRO, TS 22/1/1-2
64. Diana Vreeland, D. V., p. 75
65. Wallis Simpson to Duke of Windsor, 6 February 1937, in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, pp. 256-7
66. Wallis Simpson to Duke of Windsor, n.d. [12 December 1936], in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, pp. 230-32
67. 'Note for Mr Allen. 22.12.36. Madame Tussaud's', Monckton Papers, fols 26-7
68. Wallis Simpson to Sibyl Colefax, 21 April 1937, Sibyl Colefax Papers, MS Eng c 3272, fols 19-22
69. Wallis Simpson to Sibyl Colefax, 23 April 1937, Sibyl Colefax Papers, MS Eng c 3272, fols 23-4
70. Wallis Simpson to Duke of Windsor, n.d. [14 December 1936], in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 232
71. Wallis Simpson to Kitty de Rothschild, 18 December 1936, in Ibid., p. 235
72. Wallis Simpson to Duke of Windsor, n.d. [late January 1936], in Ibid., P- [4]53
73. Wallis Simpson to Duke of Windsor, 6 February 1937, in Ibid., p. 257
74. Duke of Windsor to Wallis Simpson, 18 February 1937, in Ibid., p. 261
75. Mrs Merryman to Duke of Windsor, 17 December 1936, in Ibid., p. 237, footnote 1
76. Duke of Windsor to Mrs Merryman, 22 December 1936, in Ibid., p. 237
77. Lord Brownlow to Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice, President of the Bri
tish Legion, 19 March 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/10
78. Charles Lambe to Perowne, 17 January 1937, quoted in Oliver Warner, Admiral of the Fleet, p. 72
79. J. G. Lockhart, Cosmo Gordon Lang, p. 406
80. John Buchan to Edith Londonderry, 15 December 1936, PRONI, D3099/ 3/16/56; emphasis added
81. Diary entry for 15 December 1936, The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays, p. 281
82. Quoted in H. Montgomery Hyde, Norman Birkett, p. 458
83. A. Millar to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
84. Patricia Capper Parlley and Mrs S. Edward to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8
85. E. Hammond to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
86. Andrew Thomas to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8John Copeland to King Edward VIII, n December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8
87. J. G. Lockhart, Cosmo Gordon Lang, p. 407
88. Duke of Windsor to Wallis Simpson, 22 December 1936, in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 2.35
89. Miss Frances Kemble-Harris to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
90. Marjorie M. Wheeler to King Edward VIII, 12 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8
91. Mrs Lily Bellis to the Duke of Windsor, 13 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
92. Gertrude Hall to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
93. Quoted in Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 831
94. Quoted in J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George and the abdication of Edward VIII', p. 96
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8. D. Storrier to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 28 April 1937, PRO, MEPO 10/35
9. 'Very Confidential' report by Sir John Simon, 6 January 1937, PRO, MEPO 10/35
10. Duke of Windsor to Mr J. D. Moffat, 2 June 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/18
11. Sir John Simon to King George VI, 7 April 1937, PRO, PREM 1/463
12. Wigram to Sir John Simon, 12 April 1937, PRO, PREM 1/463
13. Harry Crookshank MP to Lord Brownlow, 11 May 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/19
14. Nugent Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln, to Lord Brownlow, 18 May 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/21
15. Quoted in typescript account by Lord Brownlow of events leading up to wedding of the Duke of Windsor, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/30
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