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Notes
Prologue: ‘My Whole Life Shall Be Devoted to Your Service’
1 Morton, p.86
2 Alan Lascelles to Dermot Morrah, 10 March 1947, in Morton, p.86
3 Dunlop, p.89
4 Princess Elizabeth Commonwealth broadcast, 21 April 1947
5 Lascelles diary, 30 April 1947, in King’s Counsellor
6 Morton, p.87
Notes
Chapter One: ‘The Most Terrible Thing Ever Discovered’
1 George VI diary, 8 May 1945, Royal Archives, GVI/PRIV/DIARY/WAR
2 Kate Williams, p.196
3 Crawford, p.90
4 Kate Williams, p.196
5 Ibid.
6 Henry ‘Chips’ Channon diary, 9 May 1945, in Heffer, p.277
7 Channon diary, 13 May 1945
8 Channon diary, 17 May 1945
9 George VI diary, 22 May 1945
10 Ibid., 28 May 1945
11 Bradford, George VI, p.499
12 George VI diary, 20 June 1945
13 Ibid.
14 Beckett, p.198
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 George VI diary, 26 July 1945
19 Ibid.
20 Rhodes James, p.275
21 George VI diary, 26 July 1945
22 Lascelles diary, 27 July 1945
23 See Larman, The Windsors at War, Chapter Five, for further details
24 McCullough, Truman, p.436
25 Hugh Dalton diary, 28 July 1945, in Pimlott, ed.
26 Lascelles diary, 2 August 1945
27 Bradford, George VI, p.502
28 George VI diary, 2 August 1945
29 Lascelles diary, 2 August 1945
30 Winston Churchill statement, 6 August 1945
31 Harold Nicolson diary, 6 August 1945, in Nicolson, p.31
32 Nicolson diary, 7 August 1945
33 Lascelles diary, 7 August 1945
34 Ibid., 8 August 1945
35 Channon diary, 15 August 1945
36 Lascelles diary, 15 August 1945
37 George VI to House of Commons, 15 August 1945, from Hansard, HL Deb 15 August 1945 vol 137 cc8-129
38 George VI VJ Day broadcast, 15 August 1945
39 Lascelles diary, 15 August 1945
40 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Helen Graham, 15 August 1945, Royal Archives, RA/QEQM/OUT/GRAHAM/117, in Shawcross, p.387
Chapter Two: ‘I Never Saw a Man So Bored’
1 Bryan and Murphy, p.455
2 Grimes, p.72
3 Balfour, p.108
4 Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p 497
5 Kinross, p.231
6 Duke of Windsor to Duncan Stewart, 24 July 1945, Royal Archives, RA/ DW/5891, in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.497
7 Oliver Harvey to Jock Colville, 29 June 1945, National Archives, FO 800/521
8 Duke of Windsor to Clement Attlee, 3 August 1945, National Archives, FO 800/521
9 Duke of Windsor to George Allen, 30 July 1945, Royal Archives, RA/ EDW/PRIV/MAIN/5899
10 Bryan and Murphy, p.455
11 Lascelles diary, 12 August 1945
12 George VI to Duke of Windsor, 23 August 1945, National Archives, FO 800/521
13 Lascelles to John Martin, 21 December 1944, Chartwell Papers, in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.499
14 George VI to Queen Mary, 23 September 1945, Royal Archives, RA/ GV/CC/13/135, ibid., p.500
15 Lascelles diary, 26 September 1945
16 George VI diary, 5 October 1945
17 Channon diary, 16 October 1945
18 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 18 September 1945, Royal Archives, RA/QM/PRIV/CC13/133, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.386
19 Channon diary, 16 October 1945
20 Owen Morshead, notes on conversation with Queen Mary, 18 February 1946, Royal Archives, RA/AEC/GG/12/0S/2, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.600
21 Lascelles diary, 11 October 1945
22 Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 13 October 1945, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/6001
23 Queen Mary to Duke of Windsor, 17 October 1945, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/6009
24 Bryan and Murphy, p.456
25 Duke of Windsor to George VI, 18 October 1945, Royal Archives, GVI/ PRIV/01/02/20
26 George VI diary, 24 October 1945
27 George VI to Duke of Windsor, 10 November 1945, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/6042
28 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 5 December 1945, in Bloch, Secret File, p.264
29 Duke of Windsor to Winston Churchill, 15 November 1945, ibid., pp.261–2
30 Duke of Windsor to George VI, 15 November 1945, Royal Archives, GVI/PRIV/01/O2/21
31 Ibid.
32 Edward Holman to Oliver Harvey, 24 September 1945, National Archives, FO 800/521
33 Bryan and Murphy, p.456
34 Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 18 June 1946, Royal Archives, RA/ QM/PRIV/CC9
35 Alsop, p.55
36 Bryan and Murphy, p.457
37 Lascelles diary, 8 November 1945
38 Ibid., 9 November 1945
39 Ibid., 30 November 1945
40 Ibid., 6 December 1945
41 George VI diary, 6 December 1945
42 Duke of Windsor to Walter Monckton, 9 December 1945, Royal Archives, RA/DW/6083, in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.506
43 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 3 January 1946, in Bloch, Secret File, p.265
44 Lascelles diary, 20 December 1945
45 Hon. David Bowes-Lyons to Rachel Bowes-Lyon, 1 January 1946, Bowes-Lyon Papers, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.600
46 Lascelles diary, 31 December 1945
Chapter Three: ‘I Believe She Loves and Will Marry Him’
1 Queen Elizabeth to Sir D’Arcy Osborne, 1 January 1946, Royal Archives, RA/QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.389
2 Crawford, p.96
3 Ibid., p.33
4 Heald, p.30
5 Ibid., p.32
6 Ibid., p.37
7 Ziegler, Mountbatten, p.101
8 Heald, p.59
9 Pimlott, The Queen, p.85
10 Bradford, George VI, p.301
11 Ziegler, Mountbatten, p.102
12 Crawford, p.98
13 Channon diary, 11 January 1942
14 Alexandra of Yugoslavia, pp.68–9
15 Eade, p.143
16 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 12 December 1943, Royal Archives, RA/QM/PRIV/CC13/76, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.578
17 Princess Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 1 January 1944, Royal Archives, RA/QEII/OUT/BUTHLAY, ibid., p.578
18 Lascelles diary, 1 January 1944
19 Eade, p.154
20 Crawford, p.85
21 Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 31 December 1943, Royal Archives, RA/QEQM/PRIV/RF
22 Pimlott, The Queen, p.95
23 Channon diary, 16 February 1944
24 Ibid., 21 January 1944
25 Queen Mary to King George VI, 6 March 1944, Royal Archives, RA/ GVI/PRIV/RF/11, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.578
26 Eade, p.155
27 King George VI to Victoria Milford Haven, 31 October 1941, in Eade, p.143
28 King George VI to Queen Mary, 17 March 1944, Royal Archives, RA/ QM/PRIV/CC13/84, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.579
29 Eade, p.155
30 Pimlott, The Queen, p.96
31 Louis Mountbatten to King George VI, 20 February 1944, Royal Archives, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/24/084, in Lownie, p.185
32 Louis Mountbatten to King George VI, 10 May 1944, Royal Archives, RA/GVI/PRIV/RF/24/088, ibid., pp.185–6
33 King George VI to Louis Mountbatten, 10 August 1944, in Ziegler, Mountbatten, p.308
34 Louis Mountbatten to Princess Victoria of Hesse, 28 August 1944, ibid.
35 Louis Mountbatten to Princess Alice, 9 February 1945, ibid.
36 Prince Philip to Louis Mountbatten, 6 September 1945, ibid., pp.308–9
37 Alan Lascelles to R. A. Strutt, 2 March 1945, Royal Archives, RA/ GVI/270/01, in Pimlott, The Queen, p.97
38 Lascelles diary, 7 August 1945, ibid.
39 Alexander Maxwell to Lascelles, 26 October 1945, ibid., p.98
40 Heald, p.69
41 Crawford, p.92
42 Ibid., p.99
43 Prince Philip.to Queen Elizabeth, 14 September 1946, Royal Archives, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.625
44 Crawford, p.99
45 Ibid.
46 Ibid., pp.99–100
47 Ibid., p.99
48 Ibid., p.101
49 Kate Williams, p.202
50 Eade, p.175
Chapter Four: ‘This Poor Battered World’
1 Lascelles, p.xii
2 Ibid.
3 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 3 January 1946, in Bloch, Secret File, p.266
4 George VI to Lascelles, December 1945, in Rhodes James, p.291
5 Lascelles diary, 8 January 1946
6 Ibid., 9 January 1946
7 George VI diary, 8 January 1946
8 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 25 January 1946, in Bloch, Secret File, p.267
9 Duke of Windsor to Alan Lascelles, 28 January 1946, ibid.
10 Duke of Windsor to George VI, 2 February 1946, Royal Archives, GVI/ PRIV/O1/02/25
11 Alan Lascelles to Sir Pierson Dixon, 5 February 1946, National Archives, FO 800/521
12 Ernest Bevin to Archibald Clark Kerr, 10/11 February 1946, National Archives, FO 800/521
13 Archibald Clark Kerr to Ernest Bevin, 12 February 1946, National Archives, FO 800/521
14 Sir Pierson Dixon to Ernest Bevin, 19 February 1946, National Archives, FO 800/521
15 Ernest Bevin to Lord Halifax, February 1946, National Archives, FO 800/521
16 Lord Halifax to Ernest Bevin, 5 March 1946, National Archives, FO 800/521
17 Sir Pierson Dixon to Ernest Bevin, 5 March 1946, National Archives, FO 800/521
18 George VI to Duke of Windsor, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/ MAIN/6227
19 Duke of Windsor to George VI, 21 March 1946, Royal Archives, GVI/ PRIV/01/02/26
20 Channon diary, 2 February 1946
21 Queen Elizabeth to Eleanor Roosevelt, 6 January 1946, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.389
22 George VI message of support to the United Nations, 10 October 1945, Royal Archives, RA/PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/7880
23 Morrison, p.248
24 King George VI diary, 20 November 1945
25 Lascelles diary, 26 February 1946
26 George VI diary, 24 August 1946
27 Crawford, p.97
28 Ibid., p.91
29 Lascelles diary, 15 March 1946
30 Larman, The Crown in Crisis, p.251
31 Winston Churchill to Duke of Windsor, 15 December 1945, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/6088
32 ‘Churchill’s Call for World Domination’, Chicago Sun, 6 March 1946
33 Winston Churchill to Chicago Sun, 7 March 1946, in Gilbert, Never Despair, p.204
34 George VI diary, 12 March 1946
35 Duke of Windsor to Winston Churchill, 5 May 1946, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/6274
36 Ibid.
Chapter Five: ‘Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained’ Brandreth, p.138
1 Boothroyd, p.89
2 Brandreth, p.167
3 Ibid., p.168
4 Ibid., p.182
5 Kate Williams, p.203
6 Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.624
7 Barrow, p.100
8 Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 12 June 1946, Royal Archives, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.624
9 Crawford, p.101
10 Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 14 September 1946, Royal Archives, QEQM/PRIV/RF, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.625
11 George VI diary, 8 August 1946
12 Turner, p.23
13 Ibid.
14 Crawford, p.102
15 George VI diary, 14 October 1946
16 Pimlott, The Queen, p.99
17 Ziegler, Mountbatten, p.341
18 Lord Mountbatten to Tom Driberg, 14 August 1946, in Wheen, p.212
19 Ibid.
20 News Chronicle, 10 December 1946
21 Rhodes James, p.297
Chapter Six: ‘The Old Values Have Disappeared’
1 Duff Cooper to Foreign Office, 5 July 1946, National Archives, FO 371/60757
2 Winston Churchill to Duke of Windsor, 19 May 1946, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/6285
3 Duke of Windsor to Walter Monckton, 31 May 1946, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20
4 Winston Churchill to Duke of Windsor, 19 May 1946, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/6285
5 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 24 April 1946, in Bloch, Secret File, pp.271–2
