The Queen Mother (185 page)

174
Longford,
Queen Mother
, p. 80

175
Laird, pp. 251–2

176
Lord Wigram to Lady Airlie, 24 February 1941, British Library, Add MSS 82768

177
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 17 February 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/153

178
Robert Menzies,
Dark and Hurrying Days
, National Library of Australia, 1993, pp. 66–7

179
King George VI to Queen Mary, 17 March 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/157

180
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 8 March 1941, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

181
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 21 March 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/158

182
Marion Crawford to Queen Mary, 23 February 1941, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers Papers 318 ff. 67–9

183
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 21 March 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/158

184
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Astor (copy), 23 March 1941, RA QEQMH/GEN/1990/Wasley

185
Keegan, p. 133

186
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 10 April 1941, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

187
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 April 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/161

188
Queen Elizabeth to Lord Halifax, 23 April 1941, Hickleton Papers A2/278/26A/5

189
Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters 1939–1945
, p. 137

190
Churchill to King George VI, 5 January 1941, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/069/07

191
Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 3 February 1941, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

192
Queen Elizabeth to Churchill, 21 January 1941, CAC CHAR 20/29A/38

193
Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 9 May 1941, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

194
Queen Elizabeth to Churchill, 12 May 1941, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1997/Gilbert

195
King George VI, diary, 13 May 1941, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

196
Roberts,
History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900
, p. 287

197
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 12 May 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/164

198
Calder,
People’s War
, p. 223

199
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 1 August 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/170

200
Roberts,
History of the English-Speaking People since 1900
, pp. 286–7

201
Hon. David Bowes Lyon to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [June 1941], RA QEQM/PRIV/OFF

202
File on Queen Elizabeth’s broadcast to America, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1941/America

203
Queen Elizabeth to Churchill, 2 August 1941, CAC CHAR 20/20/32

204
Queen Elizabeth’s broadcast, 10 August 1941, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1941/America

205
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 530

206
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 3 August 1941, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

207
Rt Rev. Michael Furse to Queen Elizabeth, 3 August 1941, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

208
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 28 August 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/173

209
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 5 September 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/174

210
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 3 September 1982, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

211
J. W. Pickersgill (ed.),
The Mackenzie King Record
, vol. I:
1939–44
, University of Chicago Press and University of Toronto Press, 1960, pp. 254–7

212
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 9 December 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/179

213
Ibid.

214
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

215
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 533

216
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 9 December 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/179

217
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

218
Ibid.

219
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 533

220
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 28 December 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/182

    
1
The story of John Piper and Windsor Castle is recounted in Owens, pp. 34–41. See also Susan Owens, ‘ “Evocation or Topography”: John Piper’s Watercolours of Windsor Castle, 1941–44’,
Burlington Magazine
, September 2005, pp. 598–605

    
2
Owens, p. 34

    
3
Ibid., p. 107

    
4
Ibid., p. 37

    
5
Ibid., p. 38

    
6
Ibid.

    
7
Ibid., p. 41

    
8
Ibid.

    
9
Ibid., p. 13

  
10
The Times
, 5 April 1938

  
11
Owens, p. 19

  
12
Ibid., p. 30

  
13
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RAQEQM/ADD/MISC

  
14
Queen Elizabeth to J. P. Morgan (incomplete draft), 19 January 1942, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC

  
15
King George VI, diary, 19 January 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 535

  
16
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 14 February 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/5

  
17
Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. Elizabeth Elphinstone, 27 February 1942, private collection

  
18
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 13 January 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
19
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 April 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/10

  
20
Ibid.

  
21
King George VI, diary, 3–4 May 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

  
22
Rt Rev. Edward Woods to Queen Elizabeth, 4 May 1942, RAQEQM/PRIV/PAL/Woods

  
23
Rt Rev. Edward Woods to Queen Elizabeth, 28 August 1942, RAQEQM/PRIV/PAL/Woods

  
24
Rt Rev. Edward Woods to Queen Elizabeth, 6 November 1942, RAQEQM/PRIV/PAL/Woods

  
25
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 540

  
26
Gladys Saunders, Mayoress of Exeter, to Queen Elizabeth, 10 May 1942, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1942/41

  
27
Raymond Leppard,
On Music
, Pro/Am Music Resources, New York, 1993, pp. 442–3

  
28
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 June 1942, RAQM/PRIV/CC13/16

  
29
Lieutenant Colonel Tom Draffen to Arthur Penn, 21 February 1942; Arthur Penn to Tom Draffen, 30 April 1942, RAQEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Former Regiments/Queen’s Bays

  
30
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 June 1942, RAQM/PRIV/CC13/16

  
31
King George VI to Queen Mary, 22 June 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/18

  
32
Sir Alan Lascelles,
King’s Counsellor: The Wartime Diaries
, ed. Duff Hart-Davis, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, p. 33

  
33
Ibid., p. 34

  
34
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 20 July 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/20

  
35
Ibid.

  
36
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Doris Vyner, 5 June 1942; King George VI to Lady Doris Vyner, 7 June 1942, Vyner Papers

  
37
King George VI to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [25 August 1942], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
38
Bradford,
George VI
, p. 456

  
39
King George VI, diary, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 548

  
40
Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 13 September 1942, Sitwell Papers

  
41
Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 31 August 1942, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

  
42
Duchess of Kent to Queen Elizabeth, 8 September 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
43
Queen Mary to King George VI, 1 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  
44
Queen Mary to Duke of Windsor, 31 August 1942, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINB/156

  
45
Queen Mary to Duke of Windsor, 18 October 1942, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINB/161

  
46
Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 12 September 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC9

  
47
Duke of Windsor to King George VI, 15 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/02/16

  
48
Queen Mary, undated note with letters from Duke of Windsor, September 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC9

  
49
Queen Mary to King George VI, 15 October 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  
50
King George VI to Queen Mary, 4 December 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/30

  
51
Ibid.

  
52
Queen Mary to King George VI, 4 December 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  
53
Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 5 March 1943, Sitwell Papers

  
54
Lascelles, p. 100

  
55
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 23 August 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/62

  
56
Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 27 September 1942, Sitwell Papers

  
57
Osbert Sitwell to Queen Elizabeth, 20 Sepember 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Sitwell; Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 27 September 1942, Sitwell Papers

  
58
Queen Elizabeth to King George VI, 30 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/74

  
59
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 October 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/24

  
60
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 16 October 1942 (misdated November), RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
61
Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 16 October 1942, Sitwell Papers

  
62
Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 30 September 1942, Penn Papers

  
63
Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 12 October 1942, Penn Papers

  
64
Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 16 October 1942, Sitwell Papers

  
65
Lascelles, pp. 58, 46

  
66
Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 16 October 1942, Sitwell Papers

  
67
Queen Elizabeth to King George VI, 10 0ctober 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/76

  
68
Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill
, vol. VII, William Heinemann, 1986, p. 646

  
69
Queen Elizabeth to Eleanor Roosevelt, message in telegram from Sir Alexander Hardinge to British Ambassador in Washington, 12 September 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093

  
70
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 7 October 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093

  
71
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 and 19 October 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/24, 26

  
72
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/26

  
73
Transcript of Mrs Roosevelt’s press conference after her visit to Britain, 18 November 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093

  
74
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 550

  
75
Ibid., p. 551

  
76
Lascelles, pp. 66–7

  
77
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 551

  
78
Tables on the mobilization of women, sent to the Queen on Bevin’s instructions, 5 November 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF

  
79
Transcript of Mrs Roosevelt’s press conference, 18 November 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093

  
80
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 2 November 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
81
Lascelles, p. 69

  
82
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 2 November 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/28

  
83
File on proposed interview, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06489; Lascelles, pp. 74, 82–4

  
84
Transcript of Mrs Roosevelt’s press conference, 18 November 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093

  
85
Ibid.

  
86
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 13 December 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093

  
87
Author’s interview with Lady Soames

  
88
King George VI, diary, 3 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

  
89
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC; Rhodes James, p. 223

  
90
King George VI, diary, 3 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

  
91
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  
92
King George VI, diary, 4 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

  
93
Calder,
People’s War
, p. 304

  
94
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Halifax, telegram, 4 November 1942, Hickleton Papers, A2/279/13

  
95
Lady Halifax to Queen Elizabeth, 5 November 1942, Hickleton Papers A2/279/13

  
96
Winston Churchill’s speech at the Mansion House, November 10 1942, Gilbert,
Churchill
:
A Life
, p. 734

  
97
General Alexander to Winston Churchill, telegram, 4 February 1943, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 563

  
98
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 564

  
99
Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 3 January 1943, Sitwell Papers

100
Keegan,
Churchill
, pp. 145–7

101
King George VI, diary, 28 January 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

102
Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 14 February 1943, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

103
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/PRIV/ADD/MISC

104
Franklin Watts (ed.),
Voices of History 1942–43
, 1943, p. 121, quoted by Martin Gilbert,
Auschwitz and the Allies
, Michael Joseph, 1981, p. 20

105
Council of Jewish Women’s Organizations to Queen Elizabeth, 3 December 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF; Harriet Cohen to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [December 1942], RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF

106
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 October 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/24

107
Sir Alan Lascelles to Lady Airlie, 29 December 1943, British Library, Add MSS 82768