The Peoples King (62 page)

67.
    
'Note for Mr Allen. 22.12.36. Madame Tussaud's', Monckton Papers, fols 26-7

68.
  
Wallis Simpson to Sibyl Colefax, 21 April 1937, Sibyl Colefax Papers, MS Eng c 3272, fols 19-22

69.
  
Wallis Simpson to Sibyl Colefax, 23 April 1937, Sibyl Colefax Papers, MS Eng c 3272, fols 23-4

70.
   
Wallis Simpson to Duke of Windsor, n.d. [14 December 1936], in Michael Bloch (ed.),
Wallis & Edward Letters,
p. 232

71.
     
Wallis Simpson to Kitty de Rothschild, 18 December 1936, in
Ibid.,
p. 235

72.
    
Wallis Simpson to Duke of Windsor, n.d. [late January 1936], in
Ibid.,
P-
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53

73.
   
Wallis Simpson to Duke of Windsor, 6 February 1937, in
Ibid.,
p. 257

74.
   
Duke of Windsor to Wallis Simpson, 18 February 1937, in
Ibid.,
p. 261

75.
   
Mrs Merryman to Duke of Windsor, 17 December 1936, in
Ibid.,
p. 237, footnote 1

76.
   
Duke of Windsor to Mrs Merryman, 22 December 1936, in
Ibid.,
p. 237

77.
   
Lord Brownlow to Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice, President of the British Legion, 19 March 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/10

78.
    
Charles Lambe to Perowne, 17 January 1937, quoted in Oliver Warner,
Admiral of the Fleet,
p. 72

79.
   
J. G. Lockhart,
Cosmo Gordon Lang,
p. 406

80.
  
John Buchan to Edith Londonderry, 15 December 1936, PRONI, D3099/ 3/16/56; emphasis added

81.
    
Diary entry for 15 December 1936,
The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays,
p. 281

82.
   
Quoted in H. Montgomery Hyde,
Norman Birkett,
p. 458

83.
    
A. Millar to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4

84.
    
Patricia Capper Parlley and Mrs S. Edward to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8

85.
    
E. Hammond to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8

86.
  
Andrew Thomas to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8John Copeland to King Edward VIII, n December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8

87.
  
J. G. Lockhart,
Cosmo Gordon Lang,
p. 407

88.
  
Duke of Windsor to Wallis Simpson, 22 December 1936, in Michael Bloch (ed.),
Wallis & Edward Letters,
p. 2.35

89.
  
Miss Frances Kemble-Harris to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3

90.
   
Marjorie M. Wheeler to King Edward VIII, 12 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8

91.
   
Mrs Lily Bellis to the Duke of Windsor, 13 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8

92.
    
Gertrude Hall to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8

93.
   
Quoted in Martin S. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
Vol. 5, p. 831

94.
    
Quoted in J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George and the abdication of Edward VIII', p. 96

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'We have had such happiness'

8.
  
D. Storrier to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 28 April 1937, PRO, MEPO 10/35

9.
  
'Very Confidential' report by Sir John Simon, 6 January 1937, PRO, MEPO 10/35

10.
    
Duke of Windsor to Mr J. D. Moffat, 2 June 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/18

11.
    
Sir John Simon to King George VI, 7 April 1937, PRO, PREM 1/463

12.
    
Wigram to Sir John Simon, 12 April 1937, PRO, PREM 1/463

13.
     
Harry Crookshank MP to Lord Brownlow, 11 May 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/19

14.
    
Nugent Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln, to Lord Brownlow, 18 May 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/21

15.
    
Quoted in typescript account by Lord Brownlow of events leading up to wedding of the Duke of Windsor, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/30

16.
   
Ibid.

17.
    
Leadbitter to Newsam, 17 March 1937, PRO, HO 144/22448

18.
   
'Note', Law Officers' Department, 9 April 1936, PRO, LO 3/1168

19.
   
Cabinet minutes for 26 May 1937, PRO, CAB 23/88/1 Vol. LV

20.
   
Sir John Simon to Neville Chamberlain, 28 April 1937, PRO, PREM 1/461

21.
    
The Times
, 29 May 1937

22.
    
Jowitt to Lascelles, recalling his opinion given in 1937, 14 April 1949, PRO, PREM 8/150

23.
    
Anthony Aldgate,
Cinema & History,
p. 139

24.
   
Report by Metropolitan Police, 23 July 1937, PRO, HO 144/22448

25.
    
Greg King,
The Duchess of Windsor,
p. 447

26.
   
Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 10 January 1938, quoted in Mary Soames (ed.),
Speaking for Themselves,
p. 433

27.
    
Winston Churchill to Robert Boothby, 8 January 1939, quoted in Mary Soames (ed.),
Speaking for Themselves,
p. 446

28.
   
Quoted in Martin S. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
Vol. 5, p. 829

29.
   
George Allen to Mr Farrer, 10 November 1937, PRO, PREM 1/463

30.
    
Duke of Windsor to Neville Chamberlain, 22 December 1937, PRO, PREM 1/465

31.
     
Horace Wilson to the Chancellor, Neville Chamberlain, 10 December 1936, PRO, PREM 1/453

32.
    
King George VI to Neville Chamberlain, 2 December 1938, PRO, PREM 1/467

33.
   
King George VI to Neville Chamberlain, 14 December 1938, PRO, PREM 1/467

34.
   
Sunday Dispatch,
8 January 1939

35.
    
Report by Metropolitan Police, 4 September 1937, PRO, MEPO 10/35

36.
   
Leaflet for the Octavians, printed in Barnes, n.d. [1937], PRO, MEPO 10/

35

37.
     
Leaflet by Harry Becker, printed in Twickenham, n.d. [1937], PRO, MEPO
To/35

38.
   
R. J. Minney,
The Private Papers of Hore-Belisha,
pp. 236, 238

39.
   
King George VI to Clement Attlee, 20 April 1949, PRO, PREM 8/150

40.
   
Winston Churchill to Anthony Eden, 15 October 1952, PRO, PREM 11/5219

41.
    
Leonard M. Harris,
Long to Reign over Us?,
pp. 96-9

42.
   
Ibid.,
p. 121

43.
   
Ibid.,
pp. 121-4

44.
   
Edward Heath to Robert Armstrong, 7 November 1971, PRO, PREM 15/1184

45.
    
Mrs E. Smith to the Leader of the House of Commons, 20 May 1972, PRO, PREM 15/1184

46.
   
Mrs E. Roberts to the Leader of the House of Commons, 5 May 1972, PRO, PREM 15/1184

47.
    
'Talk at last', interview with Wallis Simpson by Adela St Johns,
Sunday Pictorial,
15 December 1940

48.
  
John Grigg, 'Edward VIII', p. 343

49.
   
Lord Mayor to Mr Witney, 30 May 1972, PRO, HO 290/104

50.
   
Speech by Mayor Jacques Chirac on the presentation of the Grande Plaque from the City of Paris, to those who have served Paris, to Mr Al-Fayed, December 1989, quoted in Hugo Vickers,
The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor,
p. 23 5

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