The Queen Mother (176 page)

  
18
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 19 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
19
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 20 January 1923. RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
20
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 151

  
21
RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1923: 20 January; RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1923: 20–21 January

  
22
Queen Elizabeth to Charles, Prince of Wales, n.d. [1960s], Clarence House Archives, 10086–600

  
23
RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1923: 20 January

  
24
Duke of York to Lady Leicester, 21 January 1923, Glamis Archives

  
25
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to May Elphinstone, n.d. [20 January 1923], RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  
26
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 21 January 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)

  
27
Michael Bowes Lyon to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 20 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/BL

  
28
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 1 February 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
29
Lord Gage to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 19 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
30
Archibald Clark Kerr to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 24 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
31
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 21 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
32
Duke of York to Queen Mary, 23 January 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/35

  
33
Queen Mary to Duke of York, 24 January 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  
34
King George V to first Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, 27 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL (enclosed with letter from Lord Hardinge to Queen Elizabeth, 22 July 1937)

  
35
Queen Mary to Lady Strathmore, 25 January 1923, Glamis Archives

  
36
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 22 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
37
Queen Mary to Duke of York, 24 January 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  
38
Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 187–8

  
39
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 23 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
40
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Queen Mary, 25 January 1923, RAQM/PRIV/CC11/36

  
41
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 26 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
42
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [25 January 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/51

  
43
Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, n.d. [25] and 26 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
44
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 27 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
45
King George V to Prince George, 31 January 1923, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/152

  
46
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 4 February 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
47
Duke of York to Lady Strathmore, 30 January 1923, Glamis Archives

  
48
Lady Strathmore to Duke of York, 1 February 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/PAL/S/32

  
49
Duke of York to Lady Airlie, 30 January 1923, pencil copy by Lady Airlie, British Library, Add MSS 82751

  
50
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 4 February 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)

  
51
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 6 February 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
52
RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1923: 8 February

  
53
Laird, p. 72

  
54
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 8 February 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
55
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 9 February 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
56
Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 11 February 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
57
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 12 February-2 March, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
58
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 5 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
59
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [13 March 1923], RA/GVI/PRIV/RF/26

  
60
Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 14 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
61
Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 13 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
62
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [13 March 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/54

  
63
Jock Smith to Louis Greig, 19 March 1923, RA ADYH/MAIN/8

  
64
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 21 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
65
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 23 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
66
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 24 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
67
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 28 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
68
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, [2 April 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/59

  
69
Archibald Clark Kerr to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 31 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
70
Gordon George to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 17 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
71
Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 29 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
72
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [29 March 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/57

  
73
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [31 March 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/58

  
74
Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 1 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
75
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 4 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
76
Laird, p. 53

  
77
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 5–7 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
78
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 10, 11 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
79
Graphic
, 21 April 1923, and Wedding Number

  
80
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to D’Arcy Osborne, 12 April 1923, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  
81
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to D’Arcy Osborne, n.d. [28 June 1923], RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  
82
Laird, p. 57

  
83
Correspondence between Lord Stamfordham and H. R. Boyd, April-May 1923, RA PS/PSO/GV/C/O/1852/1–2

  
84
Gunter & Co. Ltd to Sir Derek Keppel, 13 February 1923, RA MRH/GV/FUNC/039/2A/01

  
85
Lord Cromer to Sir Frederick Ponsonby, 9 April 1923, RA LC/LCO/SPECIAL/1923/GVI WEDDING/20

  
86
Lady Strathmore to Sir Douglas Dawson, n.d. [21 April 1923], RA LC/LCO/SPECIAL/1923/GVI WEDDING/20

  
87
Lady Strathmore to Sir Douglas Dawson, 17 April 1923, RA LC/LCO/SPECIAL/1923/GVI WEDDING/20

  
88
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 13–20 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
89
Laird, p. 51;
Morning Post
, 19 April 1923; RA ADYH/MAIN/8/1923

  
90
Daily Telegraph
, 26 April 1923

  
91
Laird, p. 49;
Morning Post
, 24 April 1923

  
92
Laird, p. 50;
The Times
, 24 April 1923

  
93
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 22 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
94
H. H. Asquith,
Letters to a Friend
, Geoffrey Bles, 1934, vol. 2, pp. 50–1

  
95
Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 23 April 1923, private collection

  
96
RA QM/PRIV/DIARY/1923: 23 April

  
97
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 23 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
98
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 24 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
99
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 25 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

100
Dundee Advertiser
, 22 February 1923, quoted in Laird, p. 49

101
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 25 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

102
RA QM/PRIV/DIARY/1923: 26 April

103
Lord Stamfordham to Sir John Baird, 18 April 1923; Lord Stamfordham to Rear Admiral Hugh Watson, 23 April 1923, RA PS/PSO/GV/PS/MAIN/38428/3–4

104
Laird, p. 55

105
The Times
, 27 April 1923;
Yorkshire Post
, 27 April 1923; Laird, p. 58

106
Will Thorne to Lord Stamfordham, 23 April 1923, RA PS/PSO/GV/PS/MAIN/38428/8

107
Asquith,
Letters to a Friend
, vol. 2, pp. 52–3

108
Duff Cooper,
Diaries 1915–1952
, ed. John Julius Norwich, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, pp. 174–5

109
Memorandum and list, n.d., in RA LC/BP/Marriage of the Duke of York/1, 2

110
RALC/LCO/SPECIAL/1923/GVI WEDDING/2

111
Morning Post
, 27 April 1923

112
Descriptions from
Illustrated London News
, quoted by Laird, pp. 59–60

113
Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 26 April 1923, private collection

114
Ibid.

115
Laird, pp. 63–4

116
Lady Strathmore to Beryl Poignand, 10 May 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)

117
Laird, p. 65

118
RA F&V/WED/1923/GVI/MENU

119
RA ADYH/MAIN/1/G;
Daily Telegraph
, 26 April 1923

120
Duff Cooper, p. 175

121
Laird, p. 67

122
Ibid.

123
Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 26 April 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)

124
Duchess of York, diary, 26 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

    
1
Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, n.d. [27 April 1923], Glamis Archives

    
2
Ibid.

    
3
Lady Strathmore to Duchess of York, 27 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/BL

    
4
Duke of York to Lady Strathmore, 28 April 1923, Glamis Archives

    
5
Lady Strathmore to Duke of York, 1 May 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/PAL/S/33

    
6
Duke of York to King George V, 27 April 1923, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/155

    
7
Duke of York to Queen Mary, 27 April 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/40

    
8
Queen Mary to Duke of York, 28 April 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

    
9
King George V to Duke of York, 29 April 1923, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 154–5

  
10
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 155

  
11
Duchess of York, diary, 27–29 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
12
Duchess of York, diary, 3 May 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
13
Duchess of York, diary, 7 May 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
14
Duchess of York, diary, 8 May 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
15
Duchess of York to Beryl Poignand, 22 May 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)

  
16
Duchess of York, diary, 16, 17 May 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
17
Duchess of York, diary, 18–22 May 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
18
Duchess of York, diary, 23–25 May 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
19
Dowager Lady Bradford to Queen Mary, 4 June 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC47/750

  
20
Duke of York to Queen Mary, 25 May 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/42

  
21
Duchess of York, diary, 5 July 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
22
Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, n.d. [18 October 1923], Glamis Archives, Box 270

  
23
Queen Mary to Duke of York, 16 June 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  
24
Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, n.d. [28 June 1923], RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  
25
Owen Chadwick,
Britain and the Vatican during the Second World War
, Cambridge University Press, 1986, p. 14

  
26
Duchess of York, diary, 4 July 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
27
Hardinge, p. 39

  
28
Helen Hardinge, diary, quoted in Vickers, p. 72

  
29
Laird, pp. 79–80

  
30
Ibid.

  
31
Sir Frederick Ponsonby,
Recollections of Three Reigns
, 1952, quoted in Laird, p. 78

  
32
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 151; Laird, p. 78

  
33
Laird, p. 97

  
34
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 189; RA QM/PRIV/DIARY/1923: 28 June

  
35
Quoted in Charles Loch Mowat,
Britain between the Wars
, Methuen, 1966, p. 164

  
36
Laird, p. 76

  
37
Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 10 July 1923, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  
38
Scotsman
, 14 July 1923

  
39
Duchess of York, diary, 19 July 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
40
RA ADYH/MAIN/8

  
41
Frank C. Wilson, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, to Louis Greig, 28 July 1923, RA ADYH/MAIN/8/1923/25 July

  
42
Ernest Pearce to Duchess of York, 1 July 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
43
Duchess of York, diary, 30 July-3 August 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
44
Daily Telegraph
, 2 August 1923

  
45
Duchess of York, diary, 4 August 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  
46
Prince of Wales to King George V, 21 August 1923, RA EDW/MAINA/2481

  
47
Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 10 September 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)

  
48
Duke of Kent to Duchess of York, n.d. [19 September 1923], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
49
King George V to Duke of York, 20 September 1923, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/179; Queen Mary to Duke of York, 18 September 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11