The Queen Mother (183 page)

  
36
Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour of Canada, USA, and Newfoundland, May and June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/257/01

  
37
Georges Vanier to the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, 20 May 1939, LAC/BAC RG7, G26, Vol. 93, File 2213-D General

  
38
Sir Percy Loraine to Viscount Halifax, 15 June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/145/1

  
39
Canadian press report, 19 May 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. I, p. 97

  
40
Lord Tweedsmuir to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 22 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/001A/116

  
41
Toronto
Globe and Mail
, 23 May 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. I, p. 116

  
42
Sir Alan Lascelles to Shuldham Redfern, 22 March 1939, LAC/BAC RG7, G26, Vol. 93, File 2213-D(1); press release on guiding principles of Canadian tour, 5 January 1939, Archives Nationales du Quebec, R4/00022, 1994–11-013

  
43
Correspondence re the Queen and Toc H, March-April 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/093/01–12

  
44
A. E. Dyment to W. L. Mackenzie King, 11 November 1938, LAC/BAC RG7, G26, Vol. 93, File 2213-D General

  
45
Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/257/01; Wilfred Notley, diary, private collection

  
46
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 23–24 May 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
47
The King’s Empire Day Broadcast, 24 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/033/44

  
48
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 23–24 May 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
49
Mackenzie King, diary, 25 May 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13

  
50
Ibid.; Regina press report, 26 May 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. I, p. 210

  
51
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 27 May 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
52
Calgary press report, 26 May 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. I, p. 233

  
53
Wilfred Notley, diary, private collection

  
54
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 27 May 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF; Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 27 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/257/01

  
55
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 1 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/99

  
56
Sir Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 28 May 1939, CAC, LASL 4/3/11

  
57
Mackenzie King, diary, 19 May 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13

  
58
Mackenzie King, diary, 22, 25 May 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13

  
59
King George VI to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 28 May 1939, Hon. Lady Murray Papers

  
60
Information from Mrs Ted James kindly sent to the author by the Rev. Thomas M. Steel

  
61
Vancouver press reports, 29 May 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. I, pp. 252, 257

  
62
Ibid., p. 261

  
63
Victoria press report, [31 May 1939], RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. II, p. 12

  
64
R. V. D. Guthrie to Lord Airlie (extract), 13 March 1939; R. J. Streatfeild to R. V. D. Guthrie, 31 March 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/099/1, 2; Victoria newspaper articles, [31 May 1939], RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. II, pp. 14–15; Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 30 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/251/1

  
65
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Tweedsmuir (copy), 28 June 1939, RA QEQM/ADD/OUT/MISC

  
66
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 1 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/99

  
67
Edmonton press reports, 2 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. II, pp. 66–7, 71

  
68
Canadian press reports, June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. II, pp. 90, 91, 94, 98

  
69
Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 5 June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/251/01

  
70
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 5–6 June 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
71
Canadian press reports, 6 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. II, pp. 147, 154; Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 6 June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/251/01

  
72
Canadian press reports, 6–7 June 939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. II, pp. 213, 214; RA PS/PSO/GVI/VISCOM/03400/003/01/114

  
73
Mackenzie King, diary, 6 June 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13

  
74
Washington Star
, 8 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 16

  
75
Eleanor Roosevelt,
This I Remember
, 1950, pp. 183–4, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 382

  
76
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 375

  
77
William Bullitt to President Roosevelt, 9 May 1939, quoted in Will Swift,
The Roosevelts and the Royals
, John Wiley, Hoboken, 2004, p. 107

  
78
Bradford,
George VI
, p. 377

  
79
Washington Evening Star
, 7 June 1939;
New York Times
, 8 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 8

  
80
The Times
leader, 8 June 1939

  
81
Sir Alan Lascelles to Lady Lascelles, 7 June 1939, CAC LASL 4/3/16; Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 7 June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/251/01

  
82
Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy
, p. 351

  
83
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/101

  
84
Washington press report, 8 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 27

  
85
Swift, p. 114

  
86
Ibid., p. 115

  
87
Ibid.

  
88
Ibid., p. 118

  
89
The Secret Diaries of Harold L. Ickes
, vol. 2, 1954, pp. 646, 650, quoted in ibid., p. 119

  
90
Kenneth S. Davis,
FDR: Into the Storm
, 1993, p. 448, quoted in Swift, p. 119

  
91
Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 8 June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/251/01

  
92
Swift, p. 121

  
93
Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘My Day’, 9 June 1939; press report by Emma Bugbee, 9 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, pp. 47–8

  
94
Swift, pp. 122–3

  
95
Joseph P. Lash,
Love, Eleanor
, 1982, quoted in Swift, p. 127

  
96
D’Arcy Osborne to Queen Elizabeth, 23 June 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne

  
97
Swift, p. 126; ‘He Came, We Saw, He Conquered’,
Anglo-American Review
, July 1939, Vol. 2, No. 2

  
98
Washington press reports, 9 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 57

  
99
Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 386–7

100
Washington press reports, 10 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, pp. 83–5; Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 10 June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/251/01

101
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 387

102
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/101

103
Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘My Day’, [12 June 1939], quoted in press report, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 114; Swift, pp. 135–6

104
Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 388–9

105
Ibid., pp. 390–2; Mackenzie King, diary, 10 June 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13

106
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/101

107
Swift, p. 139

108
Conrad Black,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
, 2003, p. 524, quoted in Swift, pp. 140–1

109
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 11 June 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

110
United Press report, [11 June 1940], RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 114

111
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 11 June 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

112
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/101

113
Laird, p. 239

114
Washington Post
special dispatch, 11 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 115

115
Washington Evening Star
leader, 12 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 130

116
The Times
leader, 12 June 1939

117
Fred Leventhal,
Anglo-American Attitudes
, 2000, quoted in Swift, p. 150

118
Press article by Kathleen McLaughlin, 10 June 1939, RA RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 89

119
Quoted in Robert Rhodes James,
A Spirit Undaunted
, Little, Brown, 1998, p. 163, and in Swift, pp. 148, 122

120
Swift, p. 147

121
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/101

122
Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 389, 390

123
Muriel Adams and A. E. Fulford, Canadian press report, 13 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 146

124
Wilfred Notley, diary, pp. 26–7, private collection

125
Montreal Gazette
report, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 224; Speech by Queen Elizabeth, 15 June 1939, RA QEQMH/PS/SPE

126
Extracts of letters from a Canadian King’s Counsel to A. G. Allen, n.d. [June 1939], RA QEQM/PRIV/MISC/OFF

127
Laird, p. 241

128
Bradford,
George VI
, p. 396

129
Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters 1930–39
, p. 405

130
Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 393–4

131
Ibid., pp. 392–4

132
Ibid., p. 392

133
Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 12 December 1936, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 177–80

134
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 393

135
Mackenzie King, diary, 12 June 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13

136
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Tweedsmuir, 28 June 1939, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC

137
RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1939: 19 July

138
Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 23 July 1939, private collection

139
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 397

140
King George VI to Arthur Penn, 8 July 1939, Penn Papers

141
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 8 August 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/106

142
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 400

143
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 8 August 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/106

144
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 23 August 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

145
King George VI to Queen Elizabeth, 25 August 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

146
Mackenzie King, diary, 26 August 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13

147
Sir Alexander Hardinge, memorandum, 27 August 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/111/3; Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 402–3

148
King George VI to Queen Mary, 28 August 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/108

149
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 1 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

150
Lady Granville to Queen Elizabeth, 6 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/BL

151
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 31 August 1939, RAQM/PRIV/CC12/110

152
Sir Alexander Hardinge, memorandum, 27 August 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/111/3

153
Queen Elizabeth, notes, 4 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PERS

    
1
Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 27 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Penn

    
2
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 26 September 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/113

    
3
Queen Elizabeth to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 2 October 1939, photocopy enclosed with letter from Prince Charles to Queen Elizabeth, 1 September 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

    
4
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 17 October 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/114

    
5
Queen Elizabeth to Lord Halifax, 15 November 1939, Hickleton Papers, A2/278/26A 1

    
6
Laird, pp. 243–4

    
7
Ibid., p. 243

    
8
Most Rev. Cosmo Lang to Queen Elizabeth, 5 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Lang

    
9
Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 196–8

  
10
Peter Clarke,
Hope and Glory: Britain 1900–1990
, Penguin, 1990, p. 191

  
11
RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1939: 3 September

  
12
Queen Mary to King George VI, 3 September 1939, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  
13
King George VI to Queen Mary, 6 September 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/111

  
14
Pope-Hennessy, p. 596

  
15
Ibid.

  
16
Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, pp. 402–3

  
17
Queen Elizabeth to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 2 October 1939, photocopy enclosed with letter from Prince Charles to Queen Elizabeth, 1 September 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
18
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 26 September 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/113

  
19
King George VI to Duke of Kent, 26 September 1939, quoted in Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, p. 404

  
20
King George VI to Neville Chamberlain, 14 September 1939, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 417; King George VI, diary, 14 September 1939, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

  
21
Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart,
Diaries 1915–1938
, ed. Kenneth Young, Macmillan, 1980, p. 413

  
22
Queen Elizabeth to Duke of Kent, 5 October 1939, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC