Helen Hardinge 87 snubs Wallis 88 George V approves of 99 Lang visits 99-100 ready for Albert to rule 211 misses last family meal with
Edward 253 writes to Lang on her new role 255
and Lady Cunard 263 and Osbert Sitwell 263-4 and Wallis's status 276 determined to keep the Windsors
out of Britain 278 refuses to meet Wallis 279 Elizabeth, Princess, later Queen Elizabeth II 87, 100, 228, 280, 281-2 Elliot, Walter 114 Elstree Studios 186 Embassy Club, Bond Street, London 73
Embassy Theater, Times Square,
New York City 266 English Civil War 171 Enzesfeld Castle, near Vienna 253,
266-8, 274 Establishment 60-61, 67, 115, 124, 157, 189, 192, 243 Conservative 102 see also 'Society' Ethiopia (Abyssinia) 109 Eton College 61, 121, 164 Evans, Inspector 97, 149, 274 Evatt, H. V. 252
Evening News 138 Evening Standard 3, 86,101,112, 137, 167, 173, 174, 258 'Londoner's Diary' 40, 139 Express Group 112
Far East 99
Fascism 109,180, 189
see also British Union of Fascists
Federal Council of Evangelical Free
Churches 165 Felixstowe, Suffolk 84-5, 273 Fellowes, Daisy 265 Fields, Gracie 159 j0,000 Miles with the Prince of
Wales (film) 48 Fiji islands 254
First World War see Great War Fisher, Sir Warren 91-2, 93, 103 Fitzgerald, Helen 42 FitzHerbert, Lady Nora 163 FitzHerbert, Sir William 163 Flanders 54, 57, 58, 223 Flanner, Janet 35, 234, 253 Floud, Sir Francis 266 Folkestone, Kent 73, 97, 98 Fomenter, Majorca 25 Foreign Office 61 Forster, E. M. 44
Fort Belvedere, Windsor Great Park 2-3, M-5> 35. 36, 75) 84» 85, 93, 96, 112,114, 118, 128, 129, 139, 150, 159, 175, 181, 190, 192, 196, 210, 211, 212, 230, 233, 262 four-leaf clover 270 Foyle's literary luncheons 256-7 France
Great War 54, 55, 57, 78, 187, 223, 270
Wallis visits Mrs Scanlon 97-8 Wallis stays with the Rogers
family 150, 192 the Windsors in exile 277-8 Franco, General Francisco 108 Friends of the Duke of Windsor in
America 279 Frisco's nightclub, Soho 212 Frogmore royal mausoleum,
Windsor 281 Front Populaire (Blum) 108 Fry, Geoffrey 177 Furness, Thelma, Lady 23-4, 38,
44, 46, 88, 213 Fury, HMS 253
Gallipoli, Battle of 43, 54, 270 Game, Sir Philip 95, 98, 274 Garbo, Greta 159 Garn-yr-Erw 16-17 Garvey, Marcus 49, 244 Garvin, James 197-8 Gateshead British Legion and United Services Fund 225 Gaumont-British News 47 General Strike (1926) 120-21 George, Prince, Duke of Kent (Edward's brother) 99, 210, 262, 275 relationships with married women 38
proposes to Poppy Baring 39 bisexuality 39 addiction to cocaine 39 marries Princess Marina 40, 80
at the Embassy Club 73 personality 80-81 told of Edward's abdication decision 106
witnesses Edward's abdication 219
devastated by the abdication 247-8
final meal with Edward 253 George III, King 178 George V, King (Edward's father) 5, 162, 177, 263 and the working classes 9 as a parent 10-11 worries about Edward's size 30 and Sheila Loughborough 38 and Edward's popularity 52 fails to understand war veterans 57
rigid time-table 72 love of shooting 72 approves of Elizabeth 99 relationship with Albert 116 Christmas broadcasts 153, 156 refuses to shelter the Tsar and his
family 229-30 personality 230 death of 63, 68 George VI, King 266 the new king 219, 228, 230-32,
237-8, 246 final meal with Edward 233 proclaimed king (12 December
1936) 254-5 and Edward's wedding 275, 276 and Wallis's status 276 determined to keep the Windsors
out of Britain 278, 279 coronation 250-51, 273 see also Albert, Prince Germany 189, 265 Gillett, Sir George 12, 60 Glamorgan 2, 6 Glasgow 15
Globe and Mail (Toronto) 203 Goddard, Theodore 216-18, 267 Goebbels, Joseph 189 Gold Standard 121 Granard, Lord and Lady 265-6 Great War(i9i4-i8) 5,6,14, 52-5,
64-5,73,77,109,142,187,
223,225,229,243,270-71 Greece, King of (Georgios II) 43 Grenadier Guards 52, 53, 55, 73,
121, 270 Greville, Mrs Ronnie 45, 189, 264 Grigg, John 51, 77 Grosvenor House, London 162 Guinness, Mr and Mrs Lee 25 Gunther, John 28, 31-2, 72, 148,
242, 251, 257 Gwaelodygarth 7
Gwynne, 'Foxy' (later Lady Sefton) 43, J2-8
Gwynne, H. A. 19-20, 128-9, I47 gypsies 244
Hailsham, Lord 105 Halifax, Lord 76, 93, 102, 105 Hall, George 119 Hamilton, General Sir Ian 54 Hamilton, Jean, Lady 40-41, 45-6,
80, 81^ 163 Hamilton of Dalzell, Lord 25, 247 Hansard's 194 Happy Valley set 39 Hardinge, Major Alexander 99, 140, 147 sympathy for George V's sons 10 Edward's Private Secretary 3, 5,
69, 74, 89, 91, 94 South Wales royal tour 5, 94 and Edward's interest in housing
Wallis feels uncomfortable with
the Hardinges 36 love of shooting 72 warns Albert that abdication is
possible 73 loyal to George V's court 73 discusses the divorce issue with
Baldwin 74-5, 194 discusses the crisis with Lang 76 and Alice Keppel 80 friendship with the Yorks 87 warning letter to Edward 89-94,
101, 117 and the morganatic marriage plan 114
the start of the new reign 246 flourishes under the new regime 263
Hardinge, Helen 36, 76, 79, 87, 89,
104, 116, 152, 240 Hardinge of Penshurst, Lord (father
of Alexander Hardinge) 5 Harewood, Earl of 248 Harmsworth, Esmond 86, 111-12,
117, 172 Harriman, Margaret Case 242 Harrisson, Tom 250 Hartington, Lord 251 Harvey, Oliver 279 Hatfield House, Hertfordshire 76 Headlam, Cecil 68, 69, 104, 136,
145, 166, 168, 222, 257-8 Heap, Anthony 180 Hearst, William Randolph 85 Heath, Edward 280-81 Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort 171-2
Henry, Prince (Harry), Duke of
Gloucester 106, 219, 253, 263 Hertzog, General 130
Hewett, Sir Stanley 2.30 High Court, London 74 High Lodge, Durham 58 High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 94
Hindu newspaper 205
Hindus 206
His Master's Voice 242
Hitler, Adolf 24, 45, 108, 109, 189,
195, 196 Hoare, Sir Samuel 51, 102, 105,
116-17, I2-4, 221 Hobart, Tasmania 251 Hoesch, Leopold von 196 Holt, Harold 203 Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh 99 Home Fleet 51, 63, 89, 93 Hong Kong 30 Hore-Belisha, Leslie 279 Home, Sir Robert 106 Hotel de Paris, Bray, Berkshire 85 Hotel Majestic, Cannes ziz House of Commons 64, 84, xoi, 106, 119, 122, 124, 133, 158, 159, 161, 173, 174, 183, 192-5, 198, 200, 201, 217, 219, 220, 221, 226, 235, 236, 259, 281 House of Lords 78, 229, 235, 236
housing 6, 12, 14, 43, 48, 50 Houston, Lady 180-81, 255 Hughes, W.M. 176 Hunter, George 84 Hunter, Kitty 84
Hyde Park, London 57, 122, 180
Illustrated London News 121 Imperial Conference (1926) 118 India 31, 205-8, 244
Inskip, Sir Thomas 124 Instrument of Abdication 218-19, 226
Invergordon 121
Ipswich Assizes 74, 75, 84, 85, 188 Irish Free State 117, 124, 131, 132, M5
Irish Government 202 Ismaili sect 54 Italy 189, 225
James II, King 175 Japan Advertiser 235 Japan Times 23 5 Jardine, Reverend J. A. 275 Jarrow 66
Jarrow Crusade (British Movietone) 67
Jarrow marchers (1936) 66-7 Jarrow Marchers (British
Movietone) 67 Jockey Club 71 John, Prince 80-81 Jones, Lewis 123 Jones, Thomas 114, 177, 251 Jowitt, Lord 276-7 Jutland, Battle of 55
Kaneko, Shigeri 235 Kennington, London 14, 50 Keppel, Alice 35, 79, 80, 163, 234 Keynes, John Maynard 44, 165 General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money 164 Keynes, Lydia 165 Khan, Aly 24 Kingston, Jamaica 255 Kirkwood, David 119-20 Kit Kat club, London 73 Kitchener, Lord 53
Kurunegala Urban District Council, Ceylon 244
Labor Daily 249 Labour Party
and Lady Colefax 44 Edward's attitude to 49 and the royal crisis 113, 249 growing influence 122 ruling class's fear 123 Ladbrook (Edward's chauffeur) 151 Lambe, Charles 69, 75, 94
the South Wales visit 4,11, 15, 16 on Edward's devotion to Wallis
19
on Lady Colefax 44 and management of th
e royal staff 7°
and Wallis's divorce petition 75 tensions in the royal household 126
at the Opening of Parliament 229 in George VI's Household 263 Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of Canterbury 70, 72, 76-7, 99-100, 103, 137-8, 146, 165-6, 169, 190, 269, 271 'The pity of it' speech 256-60 Langcliffe Hall, Yorkshire 146 Langtry, Lillie 79 Lascelles, Tommy 66, 228 League of Nations 160, 199 Lebensraum concept 108 Leeds 170
Peace Congress (1936) 97 Legh,Joey 4, 263 Legh, Colonel Piers 274 'Levantie' (Lavente) 225 Leveson-Gower, Lady Rosemary Millicent 78
Lewis, Sinclair 143 Lewis, Wyndham 264 Leyland, Morris 166 Liberal National Women's
Committee 144 Liberal Party 49 Lincoln, Bishop of 275 Lindbergh, Colonel and Mrs 98 Linlithgow, Lord 104-5,
205-6, 207 Literary Society 40 Liverpool Disabled Ex-Service Men's Protection Association 223
Llanfrecha Grange 13 Llanidloes, Mayor of 243 Llantwit Major station 2, 5 Lloyd George, David 9, 49, 54, 57, 172, 183, 198-9, 228, 229, 230, 241, 249, 255, 272 Lloyd George, Gwilym 249 Lloyd George, Megan 183 Lobamba Kraal, Swaziland 205 Lockhart, Bruce 40, 44, 86, 139,
*44-5> "3> z43> 25z-3. z58 London County Council 243 London Irish Rifles 227 London Social Credit Club,
Westminster, London 180 Londonderry, Charles, Lord 39, 87,
166, 168, 182, 189 Londonderry, Edith, Lady 4, 87-8, 127, 166, 189, 224, 263 Retrospect 159-60, 189 Londonderry House, Mayfair,
London 4, 87, 189 Loos, Battle of 53 Los Angeles Times 21 Lou Viei, Cannes 150, 152, 191, 240, 265, 267
Loughborough, Lord 38 Loughborough, Sheila, Lady 38 Lowndes, Marie Belloc 32, 192 Lyons, Joseph A. 118, 126, 130, 202
MacDonald, Malcolm 124 MacDonald, Ramsay 14, 105, 215 annoyed at Edward's South Wales
visit 60-61 on courtiers' disapproval of
Edward 69 and Alexander Hardinge's letter
to Edward 93 on Baldwin's ebullience 104 and the public's reaction to the
royal crisis 129 on Edward's final broadcast 240 Mackenzie, Sir Compton 123 Mackenzie King, William Lyon
130-31, 204 McMahon, George 178 Macmillan, Harold 55, 58, 200 Macy's department store, New York 242
Madame Tussaud's, London 267 Madison Square Gardens, New
York 106 Magdalen College, Oxford 5 2, 61 Mainbocher (originally Main
Rousseau Bocher) 32, 43, 275 Manchester Guardian 135 Maoris 130
Mare Nostrum (Mussolini) 108 Margaret, Princess 87, 100, 228 Marina, Princess, of Greece
(Duchess of Kent) 24, 40, 73, 80, 97, 99, 262, 280 Marlborough, Duchess of 99, 258, 263
Marlborough, ninth Duke of 39, 99, 258, 263
Marlborough House, London 105, 137
Martin, Kingsley 40 Marvell, Andrew: 'An Horatian
Ode' 233, 234 Mary, Princess 81, 105 Mary, Queen, Queen Consort (Edward's mother) 9, 46, 72, 137, 158, 162, 165, 246 as a parent 10-11 personality 35 dress sense 3 5 and Poppy Baring 39 teaches Edward embroidery 73 meets Princess Marina 81 told of Edward's decision to
abdicate 105 refuses to meet Wallis 105, 279 paternal grandparents'
morganatic marriage 112, 115 view of morganatic plan 115 sorry for Edward 219 Queen Regent proposal 230 tries to dissuade Edward from a
farewell broadcast 233 final meal with Edward 253 congratulates Lang on his speech
256, 260 Lady Cunard ostracized 262 and Wallis's status 276 Mass-Observation 250-51, 280
May the Twelfth 250 Maugham, W. Somerset 264-5 Maurice, Sir Frederick 224 Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil's
Distressed School Children's Fund 3 Mbabane, Swaziland 205
Means Test 122., 123 Melbourne 202
Merryman, D. Buchanan ('Bessie', Wallis's aunt) 21, 28, 33, 34-5, 93, 112, 126, 128, 150, 152, 269, 275 Merthyr Express 6 Merthyr Maternity and Child
Welfare Clinic 6-7 Merthyr Tydfil 1, 6-7, 59, 111, 122 Metcalfe, Edward ('Fruity') 275 Metropolitan Police 95, 98, 273-4 Meynell, Francis 196, 210, 219 Milner, Violet, Lady 91, 101, 104, 114, 136, 139, 152, 172, 194, 211, 216, 239-40 Milwaukee Journal 251 Miners' Relief Fund 121 Miners' Welfare Institute, Garn-yr-
Erw 16 Ministry of Labour 14 Ministry of Labour Home Training
Centre, Gwaelodygarth 7 Mitchell, Frank 104 Mitford, Nancy 158 Mobberley Child Welfare Centre,
Cheshire 214 Modern Times (film) 50 Monckton, Walter 26, 37-8, 85, 94, 95, 129, 145, 148, 173, l8l> 209, 210, 216, 231, 257, 267,
273, 275 Monmouthshire 2, 4,12, 57
County Health Department 7 Montgomery Hyde, H. 63 Montreal Gazette 203 Moore, George 45 morganatic marriage, history and
nature 112 see also under Baldwin, Stanley;
Chamberlain, Neville; Churchill, Sir Winston; Cooper, Alfred Duff; Dawson, Geoffrey; Edward VIII; Hardinge, Major Alexander; Mary, Queen; Simpson, Wallis Morning Post 19, 59, 61, 85-6,
129, 136, 139, 147 Mortimer, Penelope 81 Mosley, Diana (nee Mitford) 28, 52 Mosley, Sir Oswald 28, 179, 180 Mount Stewart, Northern Ireland 189
Mountain Ash 7-8 Mountbatten, Edwina, Lady 39, 97,
99, 26I Mountbatten, Iris, Lady 253 Mountbatten, Louis, Lord
(Edward's cousin) 69, 97, 99 Lambe's best friend 5 on the chemistry between Edward
and Wallis 26-7 bisexual affairs 39 and the royal crisis 126 aide-de-campe to George VI 263 Movietone News 47
Amen: The End of a Tragic Chapter in British Imperial History 254 Muggeridge, Malcolm 135, 174 Muslims 206
Mussolini, Benito 24, 108, 109,
122,189 Mydrim, India 208
Nahlin 42, 43, 85, 86, 136, 273 Nantyglo, Wales 16 National Council of Social Service 5, 57
National Government 15-16, 49,
59, 60, 63, 121, 123,132, 179, 189
Nazi Party/Nazism 45, 189, 196, 265
New Deal 12, 24, 50, 106, 108, 236 New Statesman and Nation 15, 40,
60, 120
New York 82, 96,150, 159, 242
Stock Exchange collapse (1929) 3 New York Daily Mirror 8 5 New York Journal 8 5 New York Post 143 New Yorker 242
New Zealand 117,118, 124, 130,
180, 201-2, 228 New Zealand High Commission,
London 141 Newbold, Walter 179 Newcastle upon Tyne 66 News Chronicle 60, 136, 138-9 Newspaper Proprietors' Association 86, hi
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia 109,
164, 229 Nicolson, Harold 41, 144-5, i69 Nonconformity 77, 138-9, 259 North Wales: Edward visits 56 North-East England 65-7 Nuremberg rallies 45
Observer 197 Octavians 279 Ogilvy, Bruce 30
Olympic Games, Winter (Munich,
1936) 189 Opening of Parliament (3 November
1936) 229 Oriental Post 207 Osborne Naval College 157 Othello (Shakespeare) 9
Ottawa Citizen 203 Owen, Frank 137, 182 Oxford 255
Oxford and Asquith, Lady see
Margot Asquith Oxford University 26, 51, 52, 61, 94, IO2-, 121
Palestine 241 Paramount 47
Paris 78, 84, 217, 218, 274, 279,
280, 282 Paris Daily Mail 159 Parliamentary Counsel,
Memorandum by 92, 103 Passchendaele, Battle of 64, 225 Pathe Gazette newsreels 1,4, 12, 56 The King Abdicates 219 The King Visits South Wales 47 Patiala State 208
Paul, Prince, of Yugoslavia 37, 81, 262
Peacock, Sir Edward 210 Peking 30, 31,42, 150 Penrhiwceiber 7
Penrhiwceiber British Legion and United Services Club and Institute 225 Pentrebach Preparatory Training
Centre, Rhondda Valley 6 Penygarn housing estate, Pontypool
14, 142 People, The magazine 39 Peter Robinson department store,
London 213, 230 Philip, Prince, HRH The Duke of
Edinburgh 280 Pilkin 225 Pitman, C. E. 121 Polesden Lacey, Surrey 45
Pollitt, Harry 97, 179 Pontypool 14, 15 Poona 208 Portland 51, 89 Portsmouth 58, 253 poverty, the poor 49, 50, 57-8, 66-7, 77, 120, 122, 123, 163, 183, 215, 222, 224-7, 231, 236-7, 249, 251, 271-2, 280 Press Association 74, 134 Preston, Kiki Whitney 39 Pretoria 205 Privy Council 255 Punch 172 Puritanism 259
Queen Mary 15, 2x3 Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End, London 170
/>
Raffray, Mary Kirk 82-3, 85, 277 Rawalpindi 208 Reading, Lord 31 'Recall to Religion' campaign 77, 103
Red Guards 229
Reith, Sir John 153, 156-7, 235,
237, 256 Renown, HMS 30 Representation of the People (Equal
Franchise) Act (1928) 235 Republican Government (Spain) 108 Rhedey, Claudine, Countess 112 Rhiw Park, Abertillery 17 Rhondda, Lady 146 Rhondda Valley 6 Rhymney, Wales 4, 17 Rhymney Iron Company 17 Ribbentrop, Joachim von 45, 189, 195-6
Ritz hotel, London 234
Robeson, Paul 9, 39
Rogers, Herman 31, 42, 99, 150,
152, 212, 265, 275 Rogers, Katherine 31, 42, 99, 150,
152, 265 Roman Catholicism 77 Roosevelt, Franklin D. 50, 90,106,
108, 153, 154-5 Rosaura 25-6, 42, 273 Rosebery, Earl and Countess of 99 Rosslyn, Earl of 78 Rothermere, Lord 86, xn-12, 136,
147, 200 Rothschild, Baron Eugene de 253, 268, 275
Rothschild, Kitty, Baroness de 253,268, 275 Rothschild family 144 Rouen 151
Rowland, John 12, 59, 120 Royal Albert Hall, London 51, 160
Royal Family 19, 60, 61, 161, 254, 260, 275, 276, 278, 279, 280 Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park 219, 253
Royal Marriages Act (1772) 68, 161 Rubinstein, Artur 44 Runciman, Hilda 15, 70, 78, 115, 179
Runciman, Walter 15, 93, 224 Russell, Bertrand 65, 256 Russia
Five-Year Plan 108 Edward's attitude towards 109 trade unions 121 and Stay in Strikes 122 Russian Revolution (1917) 164, 229 Rutland, Duke of 42
Sagan, Princesse de 79 St George's Chapel, Windsor 37, 2.81-2
St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh 214 St James's Palace, London 36, 98,
139, 240 St Johns, Adela 281 St Paul's Cathedral, London 281 St Peter's Church, Blaenavon 13 Salisbury, Lord 76, 173, 256 Sandringham House, Norfolk 5,81,
115
'Sandringham Time' 72
Sassoon, Sir Philip 73
Saturday Review 180-81, 255
Savage, Michael 130, 201
Savile Club, London 243
Scanlon, Gladys Kemp 97
Schiaparelli, Elsa 43
Schuster, Sir Claude 236
Scotland 3, 147
scouting movement 243
Seaham Weekly News 120
Second World War see World War II
Sefton, Eari of 42, 43
Shanghai 30
Shaw, George Bernard 108,165, 228, 250, 256 'The King, the Constitution and the Lady' 167-8 Shearer, Norma 159 Simon, Sir John 48, 74, 76, 93, 98, 105, 124, 209, 274, 275, 276
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