George VI and Elizabeth, page 75
“the lesser of two”: Sir Alexander Hardinge to Queen Elizabeth, 7 July 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/OFF, Shawcross, QEQM, p. 520.
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According to Cadogan: Cadbury, Princes at War, pp. 285–86, reproducing the original report to Cadogan, 7 July 1940, and writing “he passed it up the line and it reached the palace that same day.”
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“telling them that they”: King George VI, diary, 16 July 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“preposterous”: King George VI, diary, 18 July 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“D has got to obey”: King George VI, diary, 18 July 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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persuade the Windsors: King George VI to Queen Mary, 22 August 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/133: “It was Monckton who really made him leave Europe. Of course the Germans would have used him in their propaganda.”
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“remain in continuing”: Bradford, Reluctant King, p. 438, quoting Huene message to Ribbentrop on 2 August 1940 mentioning the Duke’s intention to communicate using a code word.
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“D. had different ideas”: King George VI, diary, 6 August 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“twenty little silver”: Nicolson, diary, 18 August 1940, Balliol.
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“talked with people”: King George VI, diary, 1 August 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“Air Activity”: King George VI, diary, 10 August 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“This looks like”: King George VI, diary, 13 August 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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He pledged retaliation: Roberts, Churchill, pp. 584–85.
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“the enemy dropped”: Roberts, Churchill, p. 588.
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“descend into the”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 20 August 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/132.
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Between August 24: Roberts, Churchill, p. 588.
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“major strategic”: Roberts, Churchill, p. 592.
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“wiser for us”: King George VI, diary, 9 September 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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fourteen months later: King George VI, diary, 27 November 1941, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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Haakon and Olav: King George VI, diary, 9 September 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“really intense”: King George VI, diary, 10 September 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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spent three hours: David Euan Wallace, diary (typescript copy), Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 9 September 1940.
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“Are we downhearted?”: The Times, 10 September 1940.
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“all and sundry”: David Euan Wallace, diary (typescript copy), Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 9 September 1940.
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“We felt the concussion”: King George VI, diary, 9 September 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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Its force catapulted: The Times, 12 September 1940.
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“I had been sitting”: King George VI, diary, 10 September 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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They also hosted the first: King George VI, diary, 10 September 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY; Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: Their Finest Hour (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), p. 379.
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They helped themselves: Corbitt, My Twenty Years in Buckingham Palace, p. 151.
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“gracious intimacy”: Roberts, Churchill, p. 594.
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“does tell me”: King George VI, diary, 20 January 1941, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“our weekly luncheons”: Churchill to King George VI, 5 January 1941, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/069/07, Shawcross, QEQM, p. 537.
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“many things both”: King George VI, diary, 22 October 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“told me everything”: Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–95, Shawcross QEQM, p. 560.
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“It will make a fine”: Nicolson, diary, 11 September 1940, Balliol.
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The trio stood: The Times, 12 September 1940.
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“The usual collapsed”: King George VI, diary, 11 September 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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entered the dimly: Ibid., The Illustrated London News, 21 September 1940.
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“I think we must”: Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–95, Shawcross, QEQM, p. 529.
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“heard an aircraft”: King George VI, diary, 13 September 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“the noise of aircraft”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 September 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/135.
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“looked foolishly”: Ibid.
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“We all wondered”: King George VI, diary, 13 September 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“Had the windows”: Churchill, Second World War, 2:379.
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“They have just”: Nicolson, diary, 13 September 1940, Balliol.
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eyewitness accounts: The Times, 14 September 1940.
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“calmly making”: Crawford, Little Princesses, p. 146.
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The shelter: The Illustrated London News, 21 September 1940.
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“had developed an unreasonable dislike”: Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson 1994–95, Shawcross, QEQM, p. 517.
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“made their reception”: David Euan Wallace, diary (typescript copy), 13 September 1940, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
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“Their Majesties appeared”: The Times, 14 September 1940.
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“a dead city”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 September 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/135.
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“a ghastly experience”: King George VI, diary, 13 September 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“I should not put”: King George VI, diary, 19 September 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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during air raids: David Euan Wallace, diary (typescript copy), 27 September 1940, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford: “The sirens went as we were on our way to the first rendezvous and while we were still there a considerable air battle developed not very far away.”
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“with whom they are”: The Times, 20 September 1940.
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“unite the King”: Roberts, Churchill, p. 597.
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“Like so many other”: The Times, 14 September 1940.
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“we have both found”: King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/138.
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“I’m glad we’ve been bombed”: Betty Spencer Shew, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955), p. 76, cited in Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 470.
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“were booed”: Nicolson, diary, 17 September 1940, Balliol.
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She dispatched sixty: Longford, Queen Mother, p. 85.
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“a liability”: King George VI, diary, 18 June 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY. On 20 May 1940, the King had written in his diary “E & I had a talk with Mr. Chamberlain…about the childrens’ safety. He advised us to wait for the time being, before making any plans for their future.” King George VI, diary, 20 May 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“The children could”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 516.
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“personal patriotism”: Nicolson II, p. 100.
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“Brontosaurus”: King George VI, diary, 29 December 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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fitted out: Stewart, King’s Private Army, p. 74.
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“always felt that”: King George VI, diary, 12 December 1941, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“We are not going”: Nicolson, diary, 10 July 1940, Balliol.
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“mobile column”: King George VI, diary, 2 July 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“saloon cars”: Stewart, King’s Private Army, p. 76.
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“great stuff”: Marion Crawford to Queen Mary, 23 February 1941, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers, 318, ff. 67–69, Shawcross, QEQM, p. 534.
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would never sing: Confidential interview with author, March 2019.
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“She is so sweet”: Alathea Fitzalan Howard, The Windsor Diaries, 1940–1945: My Childhood with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, ed. Celestria Noel (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2020), p. 69.
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“four people who”: Ibid., p. 152.
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“very hurried moment”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 17 July 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/95.
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“right combination”: Richard Hough, Louis and Victoria: The Family History of the Mountbattens, 2nd ed. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984), p. 354.
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At their mother’s: Longford, Queen Mother, p. 83.
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the latter included: Fitzalan Howard, Windsor Diaries, p. 43.
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“making conversation”: Ibid., p. 65.
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“Lilibet herself put”: Crawford, Little Princesses, p. 130.
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“She was not at all”: King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/138.
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“I feel so much”: The Times, 14 October 1940.
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“thousands of children”: Ibid.
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“most admirably”: Ibid.
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“certainly showed”: King George VI, diary, 31 December 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“hot blitz”: Nicolson, diary, 16 April 1941, Balliol.
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“gale of fire”: Ibid.
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“shrieks and jabbers”: Ibid.
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“architectural and historic”: The Illustrated London News, 4 January 1941.
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“It really makes”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/139.
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“vandalism”: King George VI, diary, 29 December 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“a mass of tangled”: King George VI, diary, 14 May 1941, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“It is just four”: King George VI, diary, 14 May 1941, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“horrified”: King George VI, diary, 16 November 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“he had done much”: Nicolson, diary, 20 November 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“to alleviate”: King George VI, diary, 16 November 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“terribly difficult”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/139.
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“so depressing”: King George VI, diary, 22 November 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“the journey to London”: King George VI, diary, 22 November 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“I would much rather”: King George VI, diary, 27 and 28 July 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“Palace on Wheels”: The Illustrated London News, 17 July 1937.
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armored the train: King George VI, diary, 20 May 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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The only specific: Corbitt, My Twenty Years in Buckingham Palace, p. 75.
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“Some clothes do not”: Longford, Queen Mother, p. 85.
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“gentle colours”: Hartnell, Silver and Gold, p. 101.
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“If the poor people”: Longford, Queen Mother, p. 86.
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Lilibet’s pet chameleon: Fitzalan Howard, Windsor Diaries, p. 84.
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Royal Road: The Illustrated London News, 20 September 1941.
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“very dirty child”: Papers of Frederick James Marquis, first Earl of Woolton, diaries, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 11 October 1940.
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“Tell me about it”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 533.
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Lord Woolton once: Woolton, diary, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 11 October 1940.
