That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (38 page)

AB: Aunt Bessie

Baldwin Papers
: Philip Williamson and Edward Baldwin (eds),
The Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman 1908 – 47

Bodl. Lib.: Bodleian Library, Oxford

EP: Prince Edward

EAS: Ernest Simpson

DoW: Duke of Windsor

FDW: Freda Dudley Ward

HHR
: Wallis Windsor,
The Heart Has its Reasons

LAM: Lady Alexandra Metcalfe

LFP
: Rupert Godfrey (ed.),
Letters from a Prince

MHS: Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore

MKR: Mary Kirk Raffray

NA PRO: The National Archives, Public Record Office, Kew

NLD: Notes for Lady Donaldson

TLS
:
Times Literary Supplement

TOMS
: Anne Kirk Cooke and Elizabeth Lightfoot,
The Other Mrs Simpson

W: Wallis

WM: Walter Monckton

WSC: Winston S. Churchill

4 entered a room: Nicholas Haslam,
Redeeming Features
, Jonathan Cape 2010, pp. 191 – 6

6 ‘church in Baltimore’: Wallis Windsor,
The Heart Has its Reasons
, Michael Joseph 1956 (hereafter
HHR
), p. 20

6 ‘of several friends’: Nellie W. Jones,
A School for Bishops: A History of the Church of Baltimore
, City Publications 1952, p. 37

6 ‘alone the clock’:
HHR
p. 130

7 ‘above two others’: Alastair Forbes,
Times Literary Supplement
(hereafter
TLS
), 1 Nov. 1974

9 ‘be like you’:
HHR
p. 19

10 ‘to the moon’: ibid., p. 24

10 ‘touch the chair’: ibid., p. 22

10 ‘“just a minute?”’: ibid., p. 23

11 ‘cover the rent’: ibid., p. 28

11 ‘thrown much together’: ibid., p. 25

11 ‘and disturbing barrier’: ibid., p. 27

12 ‘give me things’: WW to Aunt Bessie (hereafter AB), 18 Nov. 1935, Michael Bloch (ed.),
Wallis and Edward: Letters 1931 – 1937: The Intimate Correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1986, p. 143

12 ‘my Baltimore obscurity’: quoted in Jehanne Wake,
Sisters of Fortune
, Chatto & Windus 2010, p. 51

13 ‘in every setting’:
HHR
p. 35

14 ‘for being forbidden’: Ralph Martin,
The Woman He Loved
, W. H. Allen 1974, p. 29

15 ‘of the kimonos’: Mary McPherson,
A History of Oldfields 1867 – 1989: A Feeling of Family
, privately printed n.d., p. 45

15 under a pseudonym: Edwina Wilson,
Her Name was Wallis Warfield
, New York, E. P. Dutton 1957, p. 5

16 ‘those days) cowardice’: Anne Kirk Cooke and Elizabeth Lightfoot,
The Other Mrs Simpson: Postscript to the Love Story of the Century
, New York, Vantage Press 1976 (hereafter
TOMS
), p. 10

16 ‘made it entertaining’: unpublished memo by E. B. Kirk, Notes for Lady Donaldson (hereafter NLD), 1979

16 ‘boys in droves’: NLD

17 ‘of our parents’:
TOMS
, p. 8

17 ‘anyone except YOU!’: ibid.

17 ‘Oldfields went to college’:
HHR
p. 50

18 ‘did indeed continue’: ibid., p. 48

18 ‘did not say’: NLD

19 ‘my heart broke’:
HHR
p. 47

19 ‘outside of Maryland’: Martin,
The Woman He Loved
, p. 11

21 ‘most fascinating aviator’:
HHR
p. 59

21 ‘struck me instantly’: ibid., p. 61

21 ‘in a tight place’: ibid.

22 ‘waiting too long’:
HHR
p. 65

23 ‘cause of the nation’:
Chicago Tribune
, 20 Aug. 1917

23 ‘assemblage of guests’:
Baltimore Sun
, 9 Nov. 1916

24 ‘wife of Major General Barnett USMC’: ibid.

24 ‘or his hand’:
HHR
p. 74

26 ‘opposite was true’:
HHR
p. 20

26 ‘was safely past’: ibid., p. 76

27 ‘out of curiosity’: ibid., p. 64

27 globally per annum: 2006 Survey by the Scottish Audit of Genital Anomalies

28 ‘use the word’: Dr Jonathan Hutchinson,
Archives of Surgery
, 1896, pp. 64 – 6

29 ‘woman at all’: Michael Bloch,
The Duchess of Windsor
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1996, p. 11

30 ‘cold, overbearing, vain’: Nancy Dugdale, wife of Thomas Dugdale MP, PPS to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, unpublished diary of the constitutional crisis occasioned by the Abdication of the King, Crathorne Papers

30 ‘all of a piece’: Christopher Inglefield FRCS, Conversation with author, 14 Jan. 2010

31 ‘changed her appearance’: ibid.

32 ‘of my own’:
HHR
p. 367

33 ‘a special gift’: Dr Domenico di Ceglie, Conversation with author, 24 Feb. 2010

33 ‘opposite was true’:
HHR
p. 20

33 their parents indicate:
Duke and Duchess of Windsor Historical Society
quarterly issue 409, p. 21

34 ‘take his place’:
Chicago Tribune
, 30 Jan. 1918

34 brutal, a cad: Kirk Hollingsworth, Conversation with author, 1 Nov. 2009

34 ‘at a party’:
HHR
p. 83

34 ‘the same interests,’ ibid., p. 84

35 ‘I certainly did’: ibid., p. 83

35 ‘personal Mason – Dixon line’: Donald Spoto,
Dynasty: The Turbulent Saga of the Royal Family from Victoria to Diana
, Simon & Schuster 1995, p. 223

36 ‘received by the Prince … ’:
Baltimore Sun
, 12 Nov. 1936

36 ‘presented to her’:
Baltimore News-Post
, July 1953

36 ‘at Del Monte’: all the above quoted by Professor Benjamin Sacks,
Journal of San Diego History
, 1988, vol. 34, no. 1,
www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/88winter/duchess.htm

36 ‘with ball and mallet’: ibid.

37 ‘near unto cwying’: Prince Edward (hereafter E) to Freda Dudley Ward (hereafter FDW), 8 April 1920, Rupert Godfrey (ed.),
Letters from a Prince, March 1918 – January 1921
, Warner Books 1998 (hereafter
LFP
), p. 334

37 ‘deal of unhappiness’: Ethel Spencer,
Chicago Tribune
, 4 Dec. 1936

">37 ‘like a tonic’: Mrs E. Clarence Moore, charity ball souvenir programme, quoted by Professor Sacks in
Journal of San Diego History
, 1988, vol. 34, no. 1

38 ‘took to the bottle’:
HHR
p. 87

38 ‘mixed-up neurotic’: ibid.

38 ‘myself in check’: ibid.

39 ‘disgrace upon us’: ibid., p. 91

40 ‘and my emotions’:
HHR
p. 94

42 ‘all its aspects’: ibid., p. 97

42 ‘bubbled like champagne’: Martin,
The Woman He Loved
, p. 70

44 ‘of a plane’:
HHR
p. 106

45 one biographer claims: Greg King,
The Duchess of Windsor: The Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson
, Aurum Press 1999, p. 61

45 ‘over the girls’:
HHR
p. 107

45 ‘her lotus year’: ibid., p. 112

49 guise of relief: FO 148, marked ‘Secret evidence of Bolshevik activity in the Far East’, National Archives, Public Record Office (hereafter NA PRO)

49 ‘as pornographic material’: Harriet Sergeant,
Shanghai
, Jonathan Cape 1991, p. 340

50 ‘him as “Robbie”’:
HHR
p. 108

50 ‘even more pleasant’: ibid.

50 ‘then predominantly British’: ibid.

51 ‘of quasi-independence’: ibid., p. 109

52 ‘responsible for me’: ibid., p. 110

53 ‘of an athlete’: ibid., p. 112

53 ‘stay with them’: ibid., p. 113

53 ‘expect to know’: ibid., p. 114

53 ‘whole long roll’: NLD

53 ‘in her heart’:
HHR
p. 115

54 ‘have different meanings’: Martin,
The Woman He Loved
, p. 79

55 ‘of her forehead’: Alberto Da Zara,
Pelle d’Ammiraglio
, Milan, Mondadori 1948, p. 183

55 ‘among adoring males’: Diana Hutchins Angulo,
Peking Sun, Shanghai Moon: A China Memoir
, ed. Tess Johnston, Hong Kong, Old China Hand Press 2008, p. 27

55 ‘complimentary than women’: Diana Hutchins Angulo, Correspondence with author, July 2010

55 inscribed ‘To you’: Angulo,
Peking Sun
,
Shanghai Moon
, p. 27

55 ‘old aristocratic families’: Diana Hutc:ing Sun

55 ‘very taken by her’: ibid.

56 and botched abortion: Charles Higham,
Mrs Simpson: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor
, Sidgwick & Jackson 1998, p. 50, quoting Mrs Miles. See also Ray Moseley,
Mussolini’s Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano
, New Haven, Yale University Press 2000, pp. 9 – 10