George VI and Elizabeth, page 77
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“Devon people are”: King George VI, diary, 8 May 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“nearly wept”: King George VI, diary, 11 October 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“know-it-all”: King George VI, diary, 11 February 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“is very good”: King George VI, diary, 20 April 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“much more intelligible”: King George VI, diary, 3 April 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“studied the way”: King George VI to Queen Mary, 1 February 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/38.
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“so straightforward”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 April 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/10.
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“I can do all things”: Airlie, Thatched with Gold, pp. 219–20.
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“a grave little face”: Ibid.
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“There we can be”: King George VI, diary, 2 to 5 April 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“It was so nice to be”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 April 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/10.
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“so pointedly nice”: Fitzalan Howard, Windsor Diaries, p. 131.
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“Everyone’s talking”: Ibid., p. 140.
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“scribbled on a piece”: Ibid., p.147.
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“like a brother”: Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 13 September 1942, Sitwell Papers (Weston), Shawcross, QEQM Letters, p. 324.
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“a great affection”: Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 547.
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“filthy”: King George VI, diary, 25 August 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“Darling, What”: King George VI to Queen Elizabeth, 25 August 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF.
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They assumed: Memoirs of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, p. 128.
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“No, Ma’am”: Colville, Crowded Life, p. 131.
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“My most precious”: Queen Mary, diary, 25 August 1942, RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1942.
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“never really recovered”: Airlie, Thatched with Gold, p. 220.
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“We were a comfort”: Queen Mary, diary, 26 August 1942, RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1942.
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the duke’s funeral: The Times, 31 August 1942.
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“terrible loss”: Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 13 September 1942, Sitwell Papers (Weston), Shawcross, QEQM Letters, p. 324.
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“I have attended”: King George VI, diary, 29 August 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“the remains”: King George VI, diary, 14 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“Marina is still”: King George VI, diary, 18 to 21 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“all my loving”: Queen Mary, diary, 30 August 1942, with telegram from Duke of Windsor inserted, RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1942.
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“knowing how”: Queen Mary to Duke of Windsor, 31 August 1942, RA EDW/PRIV/MAIN/B/156, Shawcross, QEQM, p. 552.
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“was not compromising”: Queen Mary to King George VI, 1 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/11/666.
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“this irreparable loss”: Duke of Windsor to King George VI, 15 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/0102/16.
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“ice has at last been broken”: Queen Mary to King George VI, 15 October 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/F/11/652.
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“it is a good thing to”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/26.
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“restored”: King George VI to Queen Mary, 4 December 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/30: “You will see that he once again asks that the title H.R.H. should be ‘restored’ to his wife.”
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“This worry coming”: Ibid.
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“D. should bother you”: Queen Mary to King George VI, 4 December 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11/659.
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THIRTY: The Tide Turns
“his remedies”: King George VI, diary, 24 to 28 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“eats up the bad”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 23 August 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/62.
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“I want you and”: President Roosevelt to King George VI, 17 October 1942, Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 550.
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“dirty and dark”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/26.
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“windowless”: Ibid.
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“quite serious”: Bradford, Reluctant King, p. 348.
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“young and charming”: Roosevelt, This I Remember, p. 264.
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“they were anxious”: Ibid.
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gold and silver: Bradford, Reluctant King, p. 348.
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His cocktail: Corbitt, My Twenty Years in Buckingham Palace, p. 66.
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“gin and orange”: Ibid. Later the Queen would switch to gin and Dubonnet as her favored aperitif, a cocktail her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, would also prefer.
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“cat on hot bricks”: Lascelles III, p. 66.
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“I was the only man”: King George VI, diary, 24 October 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“an appalling mess”: Lascelles III, p. 67.
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the blitzed East End: The Times, 26 October 1942.
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“They both gave”: King George VI, diary, 24 October 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“very egotistical”: King George VI, diary, 24 October 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“strong man”: King George VI, diary, 28 May 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“got on like”: Lascelles III, p. 68.
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“charming guest”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 2 November 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/28.
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“much impressed”: King George VI, diary, 13 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“flagrantly gate-crashing”: Lascelles III, p. 82.
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“personality in her own”: The Times, 24 October 1942.
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“publicize themselves”: Lascelles III, p. 83.
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“enormous pride”: Eleanor Roosevelt Press Conference, 18 November 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093.
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“quite a good”: Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 13 December 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093.
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“I bring you victory”: King George VI, diary, 3 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“ ‘Is he going mad?’ ”: Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–95, Shawcross, QEQM, p. 559.
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“a very depressing”: King George VI, diary, 3 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“Yes! Yes! Well”: Logue and Conradi, King’s Speech, p. 183.
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“after 12 days”: King George VI, diary, 4 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“The enemy is in full”: Logue and Conradi, King’s Speech, p. 183.
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“Well…that’s grand”: Ibid.
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“A Victory at last”: King George VI, diary, 4 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“many arduous”: King George VI to Winston Churchill, 5 November 1942, Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, pp. 553–54.
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“It is some 4 months”: King George VI, diary, 8 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“relief of Malta”: King George VI, diary, 10 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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This was the first: Mary Soames, A Daughter’s Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill’s Youngest Child (London: Doubleday, 2011), p. 250.
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stood in the Grand Hall: The Times, 27 November 1942.
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“a very nice-looking”: Memorandum on Thanksgiving Day, 26 November 1942, U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, Royal Collection.
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“good at trying”: James Lees-Milne, Ancestral Voices (New York: Scribner, 1975), p. 131.
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“Everybody felt”: Memorandum on Thanksgiving Day, 26 November 1942, U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, Royal Collection.
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“very good manners”: King George VI, diary, 26 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“the study of a country”: The Times, 28 December 1942.
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With Churchill: King George VI, diary, 22 December 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“the First and Eighth”: The Times, 28 December 1942.
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“unspeakable Huns”: Queen Elizabeth to David Bowes Lyon, 14 February 1943, Bowes Lyon Papers (SPW), Shawcross, QEQM Letters, p. 340.
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“impressed by”: King George VI, diary, 7 and 8 April 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“One would like to”: Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 19 March 1943, Lady Murray Papers, Shawcross, QEQM Letters, p. 343.
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“very rough draft”: Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 6 April 1943, CAC, CHAR 20/98 A/54, Shawcross, QEQM Letters, pp. 344–45.
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He added only ten lines: Lascelles III, p. 121.
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“own words and feelings”: Winston Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 8 April 1943, CAC, CHAR 20/93B/125, Vickers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, p. 238.
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“just as you wrote”: Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 13 April 1943, CAC, CHAR 20/98A/56, Shawcross, QEQM Letters, p. 348.
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“You understand what”: Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 11 April 1943, RA PS/PSO/AL/BoxB, Shawcross, QEQM Letters, p. 345.
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“the grey & narrow”: Ibid.
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“my fellow countrywomen”: The Times, 12 April 1943.
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bicycling around: King George VI, diary, 26 April 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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the King was pleased: King George VI, diary, 15 to 17 May 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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they took Lilibet: King George VI, diary, 2 June 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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they went behind: The Times, 3 June 1943.
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gave a dance: Fitzalan Howard, Windsor Diaries, p. 184.
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“did so enjoy it”: King George VI, diary, 25 March 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“the whole royal”: Lascelles III, p. 118.
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“It is an overwhelming”: King George VI, diary, 13 May 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“the King remains”: The Times, 18 May 1943.
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“how to prepare”: King George VI, diary, 12, 13, and 14 December 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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He had set up: Corbitt, My Twenty Years in Buckingham Palace, p. 165.
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“help in the war effort”: King George VI, diary, 12, 13, and 14 December 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“Secrecy is all important”: King George VI, diary, 4 to 7 June 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“take the entire charge”: King George VI, Instructions to Queen Elizabeth, 9 June 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF, Shawcross, QEQM, p. 568.
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“discussed matters”: King George VI, diary, 10 June 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“an anxious few hours”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 12 June 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/54.
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they had spent: King George VI, diary, 8 July 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“most personable”: Harry C. Butcher, My Three Years with Eisenhower: The Personal Diary of Captain Harry C. Butcher (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946), p. 17.
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“one very tall”: Ibid., p. 18.
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“fond of the King”: Ibid., p. 151.
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“Devon people are”: King George VI, diary, 8 May 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“nearly wept”: King George VI, diary, 11 October 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“know-it-all”: King George VI, diary, 11 February 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“is very good”: King George VI, diary, 20 April 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“much more intelligible”: King George VI, diary, 3 April 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“studied the way”: King George VI to Queen Mary, 1 February 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/38.
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“so straightforward”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 April 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/10.
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“I can do all things”: Airlie, Thatched with Gold, pp. 219–20.
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“a grave little face”: Ibid.
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“There we can be”: King George VI, diary, 2 to 5 April 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“It was so nice to be”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 April 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/10.
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“so pointedly nice”: Fitzalan Howard, Windsor Diaries, p. 131.
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“Everyone’s talking”: Ibid., p. 140.
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“scribbled on a piece”: Ibid., p.147.
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“like a brother”: Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 13 September 1942, Sitwell Papers (Weston), Shawcross, QEQM Letters, p. 324.
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“a great affection”: Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 547.
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“filthy”: King George VI, diary, 25 August 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“Darling, What”: King George VI to Queen Elizabeth, 25 August 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF.
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They assumed: Memoirs of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, p. 128.
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“No, Ma’am”: Colville, Crowded Life, p. 131.
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“My most precious”: Queen Mary, diary, 25 August 1942, RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1942.
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“never really recovered”: Airlie, Thatched with Gold, p. 220.
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“We were a comfort”: Queen Mary, diary, 26 August 1942, RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1942.
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the duke’s funeral: The Times, 31 August 1942.
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“terrible loss”: Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 13 September 1942, Sitwell Papers (Weston), Shawcross, QEQM Letters, p. 324.
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“I have attended”: King George VI, diary, 29 August 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“the remains”: King George VI, diary, 14 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“Marina is still”: King George VI, diary, 18 to 21 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“all my loving”: Queen Mary, diary, 30 August 1942, with telegram from Duke of Windsor inserted, RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1942.
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“knowing how”: Queen Mary to Duke of Windsor, 31 August 1942, RA EDW/PRIV/MAIN/B/156, Shawcross, QEQM, p. 552.
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“was not compromising”: Queen Mary to King George VI, 1 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/11/666.
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“this irreparable loss”: Duke of Windsor to King George VI, 15 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/0102/16.
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“ice has at last been broken”: Queen Mary to King George VI, 15 October 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/F/11/652.
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“it is a good thing to”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/26.
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“restored”: King George VI to Queen Mary, 4 December 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/30: “You will see that he once again asks that the title H.R.H. should be ‘restored’ to his wife.”
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“This worry coming”: Ibid.
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“D. should bother you”: Queen Mary to King George VI, 4 December 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11/659.
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THIRTY: The Tide Turns
“his remedies”: King George VI, diary, 24 to 28 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“eats up the bad”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 23 August 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/62.
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“I want you and”: President Roosevelt to King George VI, 17 October 1942, Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 550.
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“dirty and dark”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/26.
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“windowless”: Ibid.
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“quite serious”: Bradford, Reluctant King, p. 348.
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“young and charming”: Roosevelt, This I Remember, p. 264.
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“they were anxious”: Ibid.
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gold and silver: Bradford, Reluctant King, p. 348.
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His cocktail: Corbitt, My Twenty Years in Buckingham Palace, p. 66.
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“gin and orange”: Ibid. Later the Queen would switch to gin and Dubonnet as her favored aperitif, a cocktail her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, would also prefer.
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“cat on hot bricks”: Lascelles III, p. 66.
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“I was the only man”: King George VI, diary, 24 October 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“an appalling mess”: Lascelles III, p. 67.
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the blitzed East End: The Times, 26 October 1942.
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“They both gave”: King George VI, diary, 24 October 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“very egotistical”: King George VI, diary, 24 October 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“strong man”: King George VI, diary, 28 May 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“got on like”: Lascelles III, p. 68.
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“charming guest”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 2 November 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/28.
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“much impressed”: King George VI, diary, 13 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“flagrantly gate-crashing”: Lascelles III, p. 82.
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“personality in her own”: The Times, 24 October 1942.
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“publicize themselves”: Lascelles III, p. 83.
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“enormous pride”: Eleanor Roosevelt Press Conference, 18 November 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093.
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“quite a good”: Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 13 December 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093.
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“I bring you victory”: King George VI, diary, 3 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“ ‘Is he going mad?’ ”: Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–95, Shawcross, QEQM, p. 559.
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“a very depressing”: King George VI, diary, 3 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“Yes! Yes! Well”: Logue and Conradi, King’s Speech, p. 183.
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“after 12 days”: King George VI, diary, 4 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“The enemy is in full”: Logue and Conradi, King’s Speech, p. 183.
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“Well…that’s grand”: Ibid.
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“A Victory at last”: King George VI, diary, 4 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“many arduous”: King George VI to Winston Churchill, 5 November 1942, Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, pp. 553–54.
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“It is some 4 months”: King George VI, diary, 8 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“relief of Malta”: King George VI, diary, 10 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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This was the first: Mary Soames, A Daughter’s Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill’s Youngest Child (London: Doubleday, 2011), p. 250.
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stood in the Grand Hall: The Times, 27 November 1942.
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“a very nice-looking”: Memorandum on Thanksgiving Day, 26 November 1942, U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, Royal Collection.
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“good at trying”: James Lees-Milne, Ancestral Voices (New York: Scribner, 1975), p. 131.
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“Everybody felt”: Memorandum on Thanksgiving Day, 26 November 1942, U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, Royal Collection.
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“very good manners”: King George VI, diary, 26 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“the study of a country”: The Times, 28 December 1942.
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With Churchill: King George VI, diary, 22 December 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“the First and Eighth”: The Times, 28 December 1942.
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“unspeakable Huns”: Queen Elizabeth to David Bowes Lyon, 14 February 1943, Bowes Lyon Papers (SPW), Shawcross, QEQM Letters, p. 340.
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“impressed by”: King George VI, diary, 7 and 8 April 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“One would like to”: Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 19 March 1943, Lady Murray Papers, Shawcross, QEQM Letters, p. 343.
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“very rough draft”: Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 6 April 1943, CAC, CHAR 20/98 A/54, Shawcross, QEQM Letters, pp. 344–45.
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He added only ten lines: Lascelles III, p. 121.
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“own words and feelings”: Winston Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 8 April 1943, CAC, CHAR 20/93B/125, Vickers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, p. 238.
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“just as you wrote”: Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 13 April 1943, CAC, CHAR 20/98A/56, Shawcross, QEQM Letters, p. 348.
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“You understand what”: Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 11 April 1943, RA PS/PSO/AL/BoxB, Shawcross, QEQM Letters, p. 345.
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“the grey & narrow”: Ibid.
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“my fellow countrywomen”: The Times, 12 April 1943.
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bicycling around: King George VI, diary, 26 April 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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the King was pleased: King George VI, diary, 15 to 17 May 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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they took Lilibet: King George VI, diary, 2 June 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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they went behind: The Times, 3 June 1943.
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gave a dance: Fitzalan Howard, Windsor Diaries, p. 184.
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“did so enjoy it”: King George VI, diary, 25 March 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“the whole royal”: Lascelles III, p. 118.
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“It is an overwhelming”: King George VI, diary, 13 May 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“the King remains”: The Times, 18 May 1943.
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“how to prepare”: King George VI, diary, 12, 13, and 14 December 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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He had set up: Corbitt, My Twenty Years in Buckingham Palace, p. 165.
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“help in the war effort”: King George VI, diary, 12, 13, and 14 December 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“Secrecy is all important”: King George VI, diary, 4 to 7 June 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“take the entire charge”: King George VI, Instructions to Queen Elizabeth, 9 June 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF, Shawcross, QEQM, p. 568.
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“discussed matters”: King George VI, diary, 10 June 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“an anxious few hours”: Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 12 June 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/54.
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they had spent: King George VI, diary, 8 July 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY.
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“most personable”: Harry C. Butcher, My Three Years with Eisenhower: The Personal Diary of Captain Harry C. Butcher (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946), p. 17.
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“one very tall”: Ibid., p. 18.
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“fond of the King”: Ibid., p. 151.
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