The Viceroy's Daughters (50 page)

Whitney, Helen Hay, 112

Whitney, Jock, 112, 218, 220, 224–25, 230, 251, 351, 365

Wilder, Thornton, 293, 352

Williams-Ellis, Annabel, 114

Williams-Ellis, Clough, 111, 114

Willingdon, Lord, 228

Wilson, Lady, 276, 278

Wilson, “Scatters,” 99, 113, 120, 122, 134–35, 337

Windsor, Duchess of
see
Simpson, Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor)

Windsor, Duke of
see
Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor)

Winn, Alice, 273, 276

Winn, Reggie, 44, 273, 276

Wolfe, Elsie de, 228

Wood, Peter, 367, 369

Wood, Richard, 367, 369, 374

Wootton, Barbara, 390

 

Yeats-Brown, Francis, 205

Young, Allan, 107, 137, 147, 149, 152,
153

Young, Father Edwyn, 345

About the Author

ANNE DE COURCY
is a well-known writer and journalist. In the 1970s she was women's editor on the
London Evening News
and in the 1980s she was a regular feature writer for the
Evening Standard
. In 1992 she joined the
Daily Mail,
where she has done interviews, historical features, and book reviews, as well as editing a page on readers' dilemmas. She has written eight books, including
The English in Love; 1939
:
The Last Season; Circe
:
The Life of Edith
,
Marchioness of Londonderry;
and a biography of Diana Mosley that will appear after the subject's lifetime. She lives in London.

 

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The English in Love

1939
: The Last Season

Circe: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

Copyright

The author and publishers would like to thank the following for their kind permission to reproduce photographs: David Metcalfe, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 21, 23, 24, 25, 33, 34, 36, 37, 39, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57; Mary Evans Picture Library, 5; Topham Picturepoint, 15, 16, 43, 56; Frank Cakebread, 30; Hulton Getty, 17, 20, 22, 27, 28, 35, 40.

 

This book was originally published in Great Britain in 2000 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, The Orion Publishing Group Ltd.

 

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2002 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

 

THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS
. Copyright © 2000 by Anne de Courcy. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

 

First Perennial edition published 2003.

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

 

ISBN 0-06-093557-x

EPUB Edition AUGUST 2014 ISBN 9780062381729

 

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Well over fifty-four thousand pounds in today's money.

 

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Just under half a million pounds in today's terms.

 

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As a member of the Irish peerage, Curzon had been (then) entitled to sit in the House of Commons.

 

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A highly infectious disease of cattle, which could be carried from one field to another by horses' hoofs, hence the ban on hunting.

 

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After his wartime injury, Mosley suffered from recurrent phlebitis, particularly in the affected leg.

 

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Later to become ambassador to Berlin from 1937 until the outbreak of war.

 

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A decree absolute was not granted until six months after a decree nisi. An official called the king's proctor kept an eye on petitioners and if there was any hint of collusion the decree nisi could be overturned.

 

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A great friend and confidant of George VI.

 

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Twenty-four thousand pounds in 2000 currency.

 

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“We are thinking of you with great affection on this your wedding day and send you every wish for your future happiness much love Elizabeth and Bertie.”

 

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An Urdu word roughly translatable as “jamboree.”

 

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Bedaux was indicted on a charge of treason (he had been engaged in laying a pipe across the North African desert to bring peanut oil to the Nazis). On the night of his indictment he committed suicide.

 

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Immediately after his conversation with the duke, Monckton told Sir Alexander Hardinge, now the King's private secretary, of his former master's decision; Hardinge's response was: “The King's plane can't be sent unless they are coming themselves.”

 

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This was the method used to send royal letters home from mid-Atlantic when the king and queen had visited the U.S. the previous year.

 

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Victor Cazalet was British liaison officer to the Polish government-in-exile.

 

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When the U.S. ambassador to France had asked the duchess when they were leaving for the Bahamas, she had replied: “We sail for our St. Helena tomorrow.”

 

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Five battleships and fourteen smaller ships were sunk or seriously damaged as well as two hundred aircraft, and over two thousand, four hundred people killed.

 

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A well-known make of lavatory paper called Bromox.

 

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Rommel had just launched a devastating offensive; less than three weeks later Tobruk fell, with twenty-five thousand Allied troops taken prisoner.

 

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The fighter pilot Richard Hillary had just written
The Last Enemy
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The famous air squadron of Americans who had joined Britain in her fight before their own country had declared war.

 

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The general, as commander-in-chief of the Polish army as well as Polish prime minister in London, was flying to the Middle East to inspect Polish forces there.

 

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The first death camps had been found in Poland on July 27, a discovery soon followed by others equally hideous.