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Index

Abdication Act
(1936) 145, 230
Aberdare
7
Abertillery
7, 17
Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
109
Accession Council
63
Admiralty
55, 121
African colonies
204-5
Aga Khan III
54, 73, 191
Agate, James
166-7,
²
39 Aird, Sir John
25, 230
Airlie, Mabell, Countess of 10-n Albert, Prince, Duke of York ('Bertie', Edward's brother); later George VI
72, 86, 137, 170, 210
at Naval College
157
in the Great War 55 health
55, 116
and Sheila Loughborough 38 made Duke of York
(1920) 38
proposes to Poppy Baring 38
-9
initiates Duke of York's Camps
10

marries Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
40
honeymoon at Polesden Lacey 45 and Edward's dress 71 friendship with Alexander and

Helen Hardinge
87
identifies with his parents
99

Lang visits
99-100

told of Edward's abdication

decision
106
promises cooperation in the event

of abdication
115
personality
115, 130, 230
readiness to be the new king
211
see also
George VI, King Albert Victor, Prince ('Eddy')
116
Alexander, Duke of Wrttemberg
112

Alexander, Major Ulick
69, 181, 210

Alexandra, Queen
79
Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of

Russia
229
All Souls College, Oxford
61, 76
Allen, George
85, 153, 155, 181,

210, 217, 275, 278
Aly Khan, Prince
73
Amery, Leo
108
Amritsa Bazar
205
Ancaster, Earl of
39
Anglo-French Luncheon Club
194

appeasement period
76
Argyll House, London
44
Arlen, Michael
73
The Green Hat
73
'Arms and the Covenant' movement 160

Asquith, Margot (Lady Oxford and

Asquith) 37, 242., 251 Associated Negro Press 144 Association Better Citizenship, Inc. 109

Astor, Lady Nancy (nee Langhorne)

41, 200 Astor, Waldorf 41 Astor, William Waldorf 41 Atatrk, Kemal 43 Athenaeum club, London 61 Athlone, Alice, Countess of 253 Athlone, Earl of 253 Atlantic Fleet 121 Attlee, Clement 63, 113, 176, 193, 199, 279

Australia 117, 118, 130, 166, 176,

180, 185, 201, 202-3 Australian Labour Party 202-3 Austria 233, 253, 261

Baden-Powell, Lord Robert 243 Bahamas 278

Bakewell Branch, British Legion 225 Baldwin, Lucy 100,104, 161, 166, 194, 215, 219, 221, 222,

2-54-5.
¹⁶¹
Baldwin, Stanley 41, 63, 68, 115, 119,143, 147, 158, 159, 172, 180,181, 186, 187, 191, 197, 238, 248, 266 as a businessman 61 very worried about Edward as king 63

and Edward's proposed North-

East visit 65-67 on Edward's relationship with Wallis 68

discusses the royal crisis with Alexander Hardinge 74-5 and Wallis's divorce petition

75-6, 194, 273 discussions with Stanley Bruce

XOO-IOI

Beaverbrook's foe 101 meeting with Edward (16

November 1936) 102-4,
^x
°6 and the Memorandum by

Parliamentary Counsel 103 rearmament admission 107-8 and morganatic marriage plan 112-13, 116, 117, 118, 129-30, 161, 201, 251 on the General Strike 121 consults the Dominions 124, 125,

129-32, 201-4 abdication message discussed 128 Thomas Dugdale on 137 and reactions to the royal crisis

139, 162, 169, 170 pressures and bargains with

Edward 145 discusses
Times
leader with

Dawson 148-9 proposed speech to the nation by

Edward 155, 178, 221 broadcast speech 158-9,161-2, 164

Churchill confronts 173-4,

175-6, 194 admits to Edward that wants him

to abdicate 178-9 alleged unfair treatment of

Edward 182 and foreign affairs 185 Ernest Simpson's offer 192 speech in the House 192-5 defeats Churchill 195, 199

told of Edward's intention to

abdicate 209 final talk with Edward 210-n worried Edward will change his

mind 215 breaks news of the abdication

219-22, 226 abdication as a triumph for him 222-3

receives letters regarding the

abdication 223-8 blamed for the abdication 228 and Edward's final broadcast

237-8, 239, 246 Lloyd George on 241 telegram to de Valera 245 and Lang's speech 256, 259 and Lord Brownlow 261 Balmoral Castle and estate 9, 29, 72, 86, 88, 99, 100, 115, 116, 173

Baltimore, Maryland 21 Barbados 208

Baring, Helen ('Poppy') 38-9 Barkers department store, London

144, 213, 240, 254 Barnes, Thomas 230 Barnet Urban District Council 179 Barrington-Ward, Robin 148 Basutoland 205 Batterbee, Sir Henry 124, 131, 2-51

BBC (British Broadcasting

Corporation) 153, 154, 156-7,

159, 2-35, 2.41

Beach House, Felixstowe 84-5 Beasley, Jack 252 Beaton, Sir Cecil 32, 45, 158 Beatrice, Infanta, of Spain 37 Beaverbrook, Lord 'Max' 114, 128,

129, 136, 147, 155, 172, 176, 200, 264 on Wallis 28

agrees to suppress news of the

Simpson divorce 86, 101 returns to Britain on Edward's

request 101 rivalry with Rothermere 112 on Edward's social interests 118-19

the Dominion prime ministers'

cables 125 feels that Baldwin is in danger

politically 139 comments on a Dawson article 148

Belton House plan 151, 192 plan for Edward to broadcast to

the nation 153 'King's men'/'Cabinet men'

remark 171 Edward urged to work with him 175

told of Edward's intention to

abdicate 209 'our cock won't fight' 210 Becker, Harry 279 Beecham, Sir Thomas 45, 260 Beefsteak Club, London 61, 169 Belgium 54, 55

Belton House, Lincolnshire 26, 151,

192, 265 Berenson, Bernard 234 Bernays, Robert 165, 200-201,

220, 221, 254, 269-70 Berners, Lord 44

'Bessie' (Wallis Simpson's aunt)
see

Merryman, D. Buchanan Bevan, Aneurin 4, 5, 15, 16, 221, 228

Biarritz 79

Bingham, Robert 50, xzo Birkett, Norman 85, 270 Birkhall, Balmoral estate 99-100, 2-55

Birmingham Post
134, 135 Blaenavon 13-14 Blaina 16, 272 Blenheim 239 Bletchley Park 196 Bloomsbury set 242 Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania 21 Blunt, Alfred, Bishop of Bradford J34-5,
^I
4
^I
>
^I
4
²
-> 146-7, 148, 159,182 Bombay 208
Bombay Chronicle
206
Bombay Sentinel
205, 206 Bonham Carter, Lady Violet 160,

199-200 Boothby, Robert 200, 209-10, 277 Boston
Record 85
Boulogne 97 Boverton 5

Bradford, Bishop of
see
Blunt, Alfred

Bradford Diocesan Conference 134

Bradman, Donald 166

Bristol 193

Bristol, Mrs 36

Bristol cathedral 256

Britannia
(royal yacht) 79

'Britannicus in Partibus Infidelium'

89-90, 141 British Embassy, Paris 78, 217 British Empire 92, 98, 106, 128, 131, 136, 138,156, 157, 159, 162, 170, 180-82, 185, 187, 188, 203, 204, 208, 224, 228, 2-32., 2.37, 238, 244, 246, 272

British Expeditionary Force 53 British Legion 55, 56, 142, 163,

224-6, 269 British Medical Association 140 British Movietone
Jarrow Crusade
66
Jarrow Marchers
66
News 139 British Union of Fascists (BUF)

179-180, 226 Brittain, Vera 64-5, 165, 187-8,

219, 226, 249 Brown, Ernest 5, 15-16, 65, 119 Brownlow, Kitty, Lady, Duchess of Buccleuch 42, 44, 99, 150, 258, 261

Brownlow, Peregrine ('Perry'), 6th Baron 18, 26, 42, 44, 99, 149-52,192, 211, 212, 216, 217, 218, 253, 257, 261-2, 263, 265, 267, 275-6 Bruce, Mrs 100, 126 Bruce, Stanley 100-101, 114, 118, 126

Bryanston Court, Marylebone,

London 23, 24, 25, 28, 33, 82, 83,97 Brynmawr 12 Buccleuch, Duchess of
see

Brownlow, Kitty Buccleuch, Duke of
see
Brownlow,

Peregrine Buchan, John 109, 114, 243, 269 Buchan, Susie 243 Buckingham Palace, London 5, 11, 24, 56-7, 61, 66, 69, 71, 86, 94, 95, 97, 102, 126, 139, 155, 187, 188, 237, 246, 282 Bullett, Gerald 197, 257 Burke, Mary 25, 33, 149, 152, 269Cabinet 102, 117, 118, 119, 124, 129,145, 155, 156, 158, 169, 175, 176,178, 179, 183, 185, 186,191, 212, 217, 218, 221, 276 Caernavon 2 Caf de Paris, London 73 Cain, Mary 33 Calcutta 205, 208 Caledon Shipyard Workers 142 Cambridge University 61, 121 Camrose, Lord 147 Canada 117, 124, 130, 132, 180, 201, 203-4, 266 Parliament 203 war veterans 56-7
Canadian Post
203 Canadian War Memorial, Vimy

Ridge, France 56 Canal Zone, Middle East 54 Cannadine, David 114 Cannes 150, 174, 191, 211, 216,

253, 262, 268, 274 Canning, A., Superintendent, later

Chief Constable 95-9, 126 Canterbury, Archbishop of
see

Lang, Cosmo Gordon Case Harriman, Margaret 242
Catholic Times
181
Cavalcade
magazine 19, 20, 98 Cazalet, Victor 19 Cecil, Sir Edward 76 Cenotaph, London 51 Central Ratepayers Association,

Portsmouth 58 Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) 244 Chamberlain, Neville 14, 63, 69, 92, 102, 105, 114, 119, 147, 175, 187, 221 and Special Areas problem 62-3

and Alexander Hardinge's letter

to Edward 93 and unemployment 106 and the morganatic marriage plan 124

and proposed speech to the nation

by Edward 156 feels unsafe with Edward as King

177

on the duty of the press 212 becomes Prime Minister 276 Edward complains of his