Power and Glory, page 32
6 Kenneth de Courcy note, 10 December 1936, Kenneth Hugh de Courcy papers, reel 3, box 3, folder 4, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
7 Kenneth de Courcy to Duke of Windsor, 21 February 1946, ibid., reel 2, box 2, folder 9
8 Kenneth de Courcy to Duke of Windsor, 14 March 1946, ibid.
9 Duke of Windsor to Kenneth de Courcy, 19 March 1946, ibid.
10 Kenneth de Courcy to Duke of Windsor, 17 July 1946, ibid.
11 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 12 July 1946, in Bloch, Secret File, pp.273–4
12 Kenneth de Courcy to Duke of Windsor, 26 July 1946, Kenneth Hugh de Courcy papers, reel 2, box 2, folder 9, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
13 Duke of Windsor to Kenneth de Courcy, 3 October 1946, ibid.
14 Kenneth de Courcy to Anthony Rumbold, 15 November 1946, ibid.
15 George VI diary, 16 October 1946
16 Laura, Duchess of Marlborough, pp.104–5
17 Ibid.
18 Duke of Windsor press statement, 18 October 1946
19 Kathleen Kennedy Hartington to Joseph P. Kennedy, 27 October 1946, in Smith, p.632
20 Duke of Windsor to Robert Young, 18 October 1946, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/6505
21 Laura Peek, ‘Retired in Bognor, the prime suspect in the case of missing £13m gems’, The Times, 2 February 2004
22 Higham, pp.324–5
23 Duke of Windsor to George VI, 10 November 1946, Royal Archives, GVI/PRIV/01/02/31
24 Duke of Windsor to Lord Portal, 9 November 1946, Royal Archives, RA/DW/7336, in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.513
Chapter Seven: ‘The Loneliest Man in the World’
1 Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 7 February 1947, in King’s Counsellor, p.397
2 Ibid., pp.102–3
3 Ibid., p.103
4 Wheeler-Bennett, p.416
5 Crawford, p.104
6 Pimlott, The Queen, p.112
7 Crawford, p.104
8 Ibid.
9 George VI diary, 28 January 1947. His diary came to an end shortly afterwards, with the final entry on 30 January
10 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 1 February 1947, Royal Archives, RA/ QM/PRIV/CC13/162, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.394
11 Bradford, George VI, p.515
12 Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.611
13 Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 7 February 1947, in King’s Counsellor, p.397
14 Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 12 February 1947, ibid., p.398
15 Pimlott, The Queen, p.113
16 Townsend, p.169
17 Princess Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 15 February 1947, Royal Archives, RA/QEII/OUT/BUTHLAY, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.612
18 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 16 February 1947, Royal Archives, RA/QM/PRIV/CC14/148, ibid., p.612
19 Crawford, p.104
20 Bradford, George VI, p.516
21 Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 18 February 1947, in King’s Counsellor, p.399
22 Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 22 February 1947, ibid.
23 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 21 February 1947, Royal Archives, RA/QM/PRIV/CC13/169, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.395
24 Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 22 February 1947, in King’s Counsellor, p.399
25 Ibid.
26 Mortimer, p.213
27 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 16 April 1947, Royal Archives, RA/ QM/PRIV/CC13/176, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.398
28 Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.619
29 Ibid.
30 Bradford, George VI, pp.517–18
31 Ibid., p.518
32 Townsend, p.177
33 Ibid., pp.177–8
34 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 26 April 1947, Royal Archives, RA/QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.399
35 Ibid.
36 Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 1 April 1947, in King’s Counsellor, p.403
37 Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 30 April 1947, ibid., pp.404–6
38 George VI to Duke of Windsor, 19 April 1947, Royal Archives, RA/ EDW/PRIV/MAIN/A/6783
Chapter Eight: ‘Don’t You Recognise an Old Friend?’
1 Larman, The Crown in Crisis, p.97
2 Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 15 December 1946, Royal Archives, RA/QM/PRIV/CC9
3 Sir William Murphy to Arthur Creech Jones, 30 December 1946, National Archives, CO 537/2250
4 Ernest Bevin memorandum, 1 January 1947, National Archives, CO 537/2250
5 Arthur Creech Jones to Sir William Murphy, 17 January 1947, National Archives, CO 537/2250
6 Duchess of Windsor to George Allen, February 1947, in Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor, p.132
7 Godfrey Thomas memo, 8 October 1947, in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.521
8 Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 16 October 1947, Royal Archives, RA/ QM/PRIV/CC9
9 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 19 July 1947, in Bloch, Secret File, p.278
10 Nicolson diary, 29 May 1947
11 Ibid
12 Ernest Bevin to Clement Attlee, 13 August 1945, National Archives, FO/800/521
13 Larman, The Windsors at War, p.352
14 Anthony Eden to Winston Churchill memorandum, 7 May 1953, National Archives, FO 800/847
15 Ernest Bevin to Clement Attlee, 30 June 1947, National Archives, PREM 8/1578
16 Ernest Bevin to Clement Attlee, 31 July 1947, National Archives, PREM 8/1578
17 George Marshall to Dean Acheson, 15 March 1947, US National Archives, Diplomatic Branch 841.001/3-1547
18 Godfrey Thomas memo, 10 July 1947, in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.550
19 Bryan and Murphy, p.462
20 Ibid.
21 Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 8 March 1948, Royal Archives, RA/ QM/PRIV/CC9
22 Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 16 October 1947, Royal Archives, RA/QM/PRIV/CC9
23 John Gordon to George Allen, 17 February 1948, Royal Archives, RA/ PRIV/QM/CC9
Chapter Nine: ‘I Felt That I Had Lost Something Very Precious’
1 Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 30 April 1947, in King’s Counsellor, p.406
2 Crawford, pp.105–6
3 Ibid.
4 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 7 July 1947, Royal Archives, RA/ QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.400
5 Crawford, pp.107–9
6 Daily Express, 10 July 1947
7 Eade, p.193
8 Pimlott, The Queen, p.123
9 Robert Coe to George Marshall, 14 July 1947, file 841.0011/7-1047, 1945-49 Central Decimal File, RG 59: General Records of the Department of State
10 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Osbert Sitwell, 10 July 1947, Sitwell Papers, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.401
11 Queen Elizabeth to Prince Philip, 9 July 1947, Duke of Edinburgh Personal Archives, Buckingham Palace, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.401
12 Crawford, p.108
13 Brandreth, pp.179–80
14 Lord Mountbatten to Tom Driberg, 28 July 1947, in Wheen, pp.212–14
15 Lord Mountbatten to Tom Driberg, 3 August 1947
16 Brandreth, p.193
17 Pimlott, The Queen, pp.124–5
18 Kate Williams, p.217
19 Eade, p.200
20 Pimlott, The Queen, p.13
21 Turner, p.31
22 Channon diary, 25 October 1947
23 Ibid., 6 November 1947
24 Pimlott, The Queen, p.135
25 Brandreth, p.196
26 Eade, p.204
27 Channon diary, 20 November 1947
28 Winston Churchill to George VI, 16 July 1947, in Gilbert, Never Despair, p.341
29 Channon diary, 20 November 1947
30 Crawford, pp.115–16
31 Pimlott, The Queen, p.139
32 Crawford, p.117
33 Ibid., p.118
34 John Reith diary, 20 November 1947, in Stuart, p.204
35 Eade, p.207
36 George VI to Princess Elizabeth, 20 November 1947
Chapter Ten: ‘The Future Is a Gloomy One’
1 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 11 September 1947, in Bloch, Secret File, p.279
2 Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 11 July 1947, Royal Archives, RA/ EDW/PRIV/MAIN/A/6883
3 Ibid.
4 Duke of Windsor to Earl of Dudley, 16 October 1947, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/A/6958
5 ‘Three American Women’ to George VI, 4 October 1947, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/A/6952
6 Kenneth de Courcy to Duke of Windsor, 17 November 1947, Kenneth Hugh de Courcy papers, reel 2, box 2, folder 9, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
7 F. J. Dadd to D. M. McCausland, 10 November 1947, National Archives, HO 144/23378
8 Duke of Windsor to Lord Beaverbrook, 4 November 1948, Beaverbrook papers, in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.515
9 Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 15 August 1947, Royal Archives, RA/ QM/PRIV/CC9
10 Duke of Windsor to George VI, 8 September 1947, Royal Archives, GVI/PRIV/01/02/34
11 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 16 August 1948, in Bloch, Secret File, p.281
12 Kenneth de Courcy to Duke of Windsor, 22 July 1948, Kenneth Hugh de Courcy papers, reel 2, box 2, folder 9, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
13 Duke of Windsor to Kenneth de Courcy, 28 August 1948, ibid.
14 Dan Longwell to Duke of Windsor, 10 September 1948, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20
15 Duke of Windsor to Walter Monckton, 11 September 1948, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20
16 Walter Monckton to Alan Lascelles, 3 December 1948, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20
17 Walter Monckton to Major Gray Phillips, 17 December 1948, Dep. Monckton Trustees 2
18 Lord Beaverbrook to Duke of Windsor, July 1948, in Bloch, Secret File, p.286
19 Duke of Windsor to Beaverbrook, August 1948, ibid., pp.286–7
20 Bryan and Murphy, p.465
21 Ibid., p.466
22 Donaldson, p.396
23 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman 15 September 1948, in Bloch, Secret File, pp.281–2
24 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 2 October 1948, ibid.
25 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 20 October 1948, ibid.
26 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 1 December 1948, ibid.
27 Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 18 December 1948, ibid.
Chapter Eleven: ‘An Unkind Stroke of Fate’
1 Wheeler-Bennett, p.762
2 Queen Mary to Duke of Windsor, 12 February 1948, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/A/7042
3 Bradford, George VI, p.594
4 Townsend, p.182
5 Channon diary, 20 October 1948
6 Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.637
7 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 14 November 1948, Royal Archives, RA/QM/PRIV/CC13/211, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.409
8 Bradford, George VI, p.595
9 Channon diary, 30 November 1948
10 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth, 22 November 1947, Royal Archives, RA/QEQM/PRIV/RF, in Eade, p.209
11 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 24 November 1947, Royal Archives, RA/QEQM/PRIV/RF, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.631
12 Pimlott, The Queen, p.144
13 Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 3 December 1947, Royal Archives, RA/QEQM/RF, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.631
14 Eade, p.211
15 Brandreth, p.209
16 Crawford, p.124
17 Ibid., p.125
18 Lascelles diary, 15 January 1969
19 James Chuter Ede to Alan Lascelles, 22 June 1948, Royal Archives, RA/ GVI/PS/9091, in Pimlott, The Queen, p.153
20 Lascelles diary, 15 January 1969
21 Beaton, p.17
22 Crawford, p.127
23 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 20 November 1948, Royal Archives, RA/QM/PRIV/CC13/212, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.638
24 Princess Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 18 November 1948, Royal Archives, RA/QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.637
25 Crawford, p.128
26 Winston Churchill to George VI, 22 November 1948, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/C/069/68
27 Duke of Windsor to George VI, 6 December 1948, Royal Archives, GVI/PRIV/01/02/35
28 Hugh Dalton diary, 14 November 1948, in Pimlott, ed.
29 Channon diary, 30 November 1948
30 Ziegler, Crown and People, p.84
Chapter Twelve: ‘Untold Injury in Every Quarter’
1 Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 27 December 1948, Royal Archives, RA/QEQM/PRIV/OUT/MISC, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.412
2 Queen Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 1 January 1949, Royal Archives, RA/QEII/OUT/BUTHLAY, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.641
3 Crawford, p.109
4 Kenneth de Courcy to Duchess of Windsor, 13 May 1949, Kenneth Hugh de Courcy papers, reel 2, box 2, folder 9, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
5 Charles Murphy to Walter Monckton, 23 April 1949, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20
6 Godfrey Thomas to Walter Monckton, 19 June 1949, ibid.
7 Walter Monckton to Alan Lascelles, 8 July 1949, ibid.
8 Walter Monckton to Charles Murphy, 8 July 1949, ibid.
9 Walter Monckton to Alan Lascelles, 8 July 1949, ibid.
10 Duke of Windsor to Walter Monckton, 13 August 1949, ibid.
11 Walter Monckton to Duke of Windsor, 22 August 1949, ibid.
12 Charles Murphy to Walter Monckton, 4 August 1949, ibid.
13 Charles Murphy to Walter Monckton, 1 September 1949, ibid.
14 A. G. Allen to Walter Monckton, 13 October 1949, ibid.
15 A. G. Allen notes on book chapters, 21 October 1949, ibid.
16 Walter Monckton notes on book chapters, September 1949, ibid.
17 Walter Monckton notes, 4 October 1949, ibid.
18 Queen Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 4 April 1949, in Vickers, Elizabeth, p.283
19 Marion Crawford to Bruce Gould, 19 September 1949, ibid., p.285
20 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Astor, 19 October 1949, ibid., pp.285–6
21 Dermot Murrah to Bruce Gould, 21 November 1949, ibid., pp.287–8
22 Marion Crawford to Bruce Gould, 25 November 1949, ibid., p.288
23 Marion Crawford to Bruce Gould, 26 December 1949, ibid., p.289
24 Vera M. Brunt to Alan Lascelles, 30 December 1949, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/2870
25 Alan Lascelles to Vera M. Brunt, 5 January 1950, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/2870
26 Vickers, Elizabeth, p.290
27 Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 27 June 2000
Chapter Thirteen: ‘In My Faith and Loyalty I Never More Will Falter’
1 Queen Elizabeth to Sir D’Arcy Osborne, 5 March 1949, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, pp.415–16
2 Alan Lascelles to Lord Hardinge, 30 December 1948, in Vickers, Elizabeth, p.276
3 Bradford, George VI, p.596
4 Ibid.
5 Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 10 March 1949, Royal Archives, RA/ QM/PRIV/CC9
6 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 8 May 1949, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.416
7 Nicolson diary, 21 March 1949
8 Queen Elizabeth to Eleanor Roosevelt, 21 July 1949, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, pp.417–18
9 Channon diary, 17 June 1949
