Nazi Princess (30 page)

1
 
Twice Wed in New York

 
1
 
PRO KV2/1696

 
2
 
Memorandum re Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, New York, 28 October 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

 
3
 
PRO J77/1933/483 & J77/2004/2811

 
4
 
S.J. Taylor,
The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere & the ‘Daily Mail’
, p.253

 
5
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 5): Hoover Institution Archives

2
 
Rothermere and Churchill

 
1
 
Obituary,
The Times
,
27 November 1940

 
2
 
Churchill Papers: Churchill College

 
3
 
S.J. Taylor,
The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere & the ‘Daily Mail’
, p.191

 
4
 
Obituary,
The Times
, 27 November 1940

3
 
The Golden Couple

 
1
 
PRO J77/1820 Marriage Certificate

 
2
 
Martin Pugh,
We Danced All Night: Britain Between the Wars
, p.352

 
3
 
National Motor Museum, Beaulieu

 
4
 
‘Court Circular’,
The Times
, 1920

 
5
 
Tom Clarke,
The Flying Lady
,
2001/2: National Motor Museum

 
6
 
Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club

 
7
 
S.J. Taylor,
The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere & the ‘Daily Mail’
, p.256

 
8
 
Ibid., p.253

 
9
 
Ibid., p.257

4
 
Throw of the Dice

 
1
 
Martha Schad,
Hitler’s Spy Princess
, p.214

 
2
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 5)

 
3
 
Ibid.

 
4
 
Ibid.

 
5
 
PRO KV2/1696

 
6
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 5)

 
7
 
FBI Memorandum to President Roosevelt, 24 October 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

5
 
Whose Go-between?

 
1
 
Memorandum re Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, New York, 28 October 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

 
2
 
PRO KV2/1696

 
3
 
Prince Franz Hohenlohe,
Steph: The Fabulous Princess
, p.37

 
4
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 5)

 
5
 
Ibid.

 
6
 
Ibid.

 
7
 
Ibid.

 
8
 
Daily Mail
,
21 June 1927

 
9
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 4)

10
 
PRO KV/1696

11
 
Hohenlohe,
Steph
, p.49

12
 
Letter from Prince Wilhelm to Lord Rothermere, 20 June 1934

6
 
A Friend in Berlin

 
1
 
Daily Mail
, 24
September 1930

 
2
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 2)

 
3
 
Ibid.

 
4
 
Ibid.

 
5
 
Ibid.

 
6
 
PRO KV/1696

 
7
 
Memorandum re Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, New York, 28 October 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

 
8
 
PRO KV2/1696

 
9
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 1)

10
 
Prince Franz Hohenlohe,
Steph: The Fabulous Princess

11
 
Daily Mail
, 10 July 1933

12
 
N.J. Crowson,
Fleet Street, Press Barons & Politics: The Journals of Collin Brooks

13
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 5)

14
 
Ibid. (Box 2)

15
 
Ibid. (Box 5)

16
 
Letter from Hitler to Lord Rothermere, 7 December 1933

17
 
Hohenlohe,
Steph
, p.68

7
 
Threat from the Sky

 
1
 
Viscount Rothermere,
Warnings and Predictions
, 1939

 
2
 
Ibid.

 
3
 
Daily Mail
,
7
November 1933

 
4
 
Stanley Baldwin speech, November 1932

 
5
 
Martin Pugh,
We Danced All Night: Britain Between the Wars

 
6
 
Daily Mail
,
3 April 1936

 
7
 
Rothermere,
Warnings

8
 
Enter the Blackshirts

 
1
 
S.J. Taylor,
The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere & the ‘Daily Mail’
, p.294

 
2
 
‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts’,
Daily Mail
, 8 January 1934

 
3
 
Christopher Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm: History of MI5
, p.192

 
4
 
Stephen Dorril,
‘Blackshirt’: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism
, pp.269–70, 285, 330, 337

 
5
 
Daily Mail
,
8 January 1934

 
6
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 4)

 
7
 
PRO KV3/53

 
8
 
Daily Mail
,
25 April 1934

 
9
 
PRO Home Office 144 20140/674216

10
 
Daily Mirror
, 22 January 1934

11
 
N.J. Crowson,
Fleet Street, Press Barons & Politics: The Journals of Collin Brooks

12
 
Ibid.

13
 
Daily Mail
,
8 June 1934

14
 
House of Commons Debate, 14 June 1934

15
 
Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
, p.192

16
 
Taylor,
The Great Outsiders
, p.284

17
 
Letter from Princess Stephanie to Lord Rothermere, 22 August 1934

18
 
PRO KV2/1696

19
 
Ibid.

9
 
Nazi Party Gold

 
1
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 4)

 
2
 
Letter from Hitler to Lord Rothermere, 3 May 1935

 
3
 
Letter from Hitler to Lord Rothermere, 19 December 1935

 
4
 
Letter from Rothermere to Hitler, 16 December 1936

 
5
 
Ibid.

 
6
 
Martha Schad,
Hitler’s Spy Princess
, p.40

 
7
 
Ibid.

 
8
 
Ibid., p.41

 
9
 
Letter from Princess Stephanie to Hitler, 12 January 1937

10
 
Martha Dodd,
My Years in Germany
, pp.223–4

11
 
Prince Franz Hohenlohe,
Steph: the Fabulous Princess
, p.107

12
 
Letter from Hitler to Lord Rothermere, 20 May 1937

13
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 5)

14
 
Ibid.

10
 
The Language of Butter

 
1
 
Daily Mail
,
7 October 1929

 
2
 
Daily Mail
, 24 September 1930

 
3
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 1)

 
4
 
W.S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries
, p.203

 
5
 
Christopher Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5
, pp.203–6

 
6
 
Letter from Lord Rothermere to Neville Chamberlain, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, 5 October 1934

 
7
 
Letter from Lord Rothermere to Lord Tyrrell, British ambassador to France, December 1933

 
8
 
Letter from Lord Rothermere to Lady Vansittart, 19 February 1934 (Sir Robert Vansittart was Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1930 to early 1938. He stood for rearmament and opposition to appeasement more strongly than any other Whitehall mandarin)

 
9
 
S.J. Taylor,
The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere & the ‘Daily Mail’
, p.301

10
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 1)

11
 
Ibid.

12
 
Ibid. (Box 2)

13
 
Telegram from Lord Rothermere to Churchill, 28 September 1938 (at the time of the Munich Agreement)

14
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 2)

15
 
Letter from Lord Rothermere to Churchill, 30 September 1938

16
 
Lord Lothian’s 29 January 1935 meeting with Hitler was arranged by Leopold von Hoesch, German ambassador in London

17
 
William E. Dodd and Martha Dodd (eds),
Ambassador Dodd’s Diary 1933–38
, p.411

18
 
PRO KV2/1696

19
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3)

20
 
PRO KV2/1696

21
 
Durham Chronicle
, 28 February 1936; Ian Kershaw,
Making Friends with Hitler
, p.141

22
 
Manchester Guardian
, 24 February 1936; Kershaw,
Making Friends with Hitler
, p.142

23
 
Letter from Lady Londonderry to Hitler, 21 February 1936; Kershaw,
Making Friends with Hitler
, p.145

24
 
Lord Londonderry’s conversation with Goering, 22 September 1937 – quoted in Marquess of Londonderry,
Ourselves and Germany
; Kershaw,
Making Friends with Hitler
, p.203

25
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3)

26
 
N.J. Crowson,
Fleet Street, Press Barons & Politics: The Journals of Collin Brooks

11
 
The Princess, the King and Wallis

 
1
 
PRO KV2/1696

 
2
 
Charles Higham,
Wallis: The Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor
(the author notes the source as Mrs Milton E. Miles, whose husband became an admiral in the US Navy. She was among navy wives in China and Hong Kong in 1925. ‘It was gossip among Navy wives in Hong Kong. It was an open scandal.’ At the time Wallis was in her first marriage to Earl Winfield Spencer, an officer in the US Navy.)

 
3
 
Henry Channon,
‘Chips’: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon

 
4
 
Higham,
Wallis
, p.81

 
5
 
Channon,
‘Chips’

 
6
 
Stephen Dorril,
Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism

 
7
 
The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart 1938–45

 
8
 
Martha Schad,
Hitler’s Spy Princess
, pp.56–7

 
9
 
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3)

10
 
Ian Kershaw,
Making Friends with Hitler
,
p.213