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Chapter 4:
Wallis on the Lookout
 
57 ‘a strange city’:
HHR
p. 121
58 ‘her last lap’: Martin,
The Woman He Loved
, p. 85
58 ‘with equal satisfaction’: ibid., p. 124
58 ‘call inferior decorating’: ibid., p. 122
60 ‘and not remarry’:
Baltimore News
, 28 Oct. 1927
60 sister Buckie, furious: NLD
61 by Jacques’ syphilis: Kirk Hollingsworth, Conversation with author, 1 Nov. 2009
61 ‘marry for money’: NLD
61 ‘provided with money’: NLD
62 ‘a man’s world’:
HHR
p. 128
62 ‘finally, to everything’: Cleveland Amory,
Who Killed Society?
, New York, Harper & Brothers 1960, p. 238
63 his own expense: Bernard Susser,
The Jews of South-West England: The Rise and Decline of their Medieval and Modern Communities
, University of Exeter Press 1993
66 ‘looking after me’: Bloch,
The Duchess of Windsor
, 15 July 1928, p. 27
67 ‘in a flash’:
HHR
p. 139
67 ‘seem so important’: Bloch,
Letters
, p. 11
67 ‘at Victoria Station’:
HHR
p. 139
67 ‘since early childhood’: ibid.
67 ‘to the core’: Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/1, Churchill Archives
68 ‘the human spirit’:
HHR
p. 146
68 ‘a second sex’: ibid., p. 143
68 ‘vacantly before me’: ibid., p. 144
69 ‘in England live’: Mary Kirk Raffray (hereafter MKR),
TOMS
, p. 5
70 ‘and many pillows’: MKR to Mrs Henry Child Kirk, 2 June 1931,
TOMS
, p. 1
70 ‘her feminine interests’
HHR
p. 159
70 ‘right through one’: ibid., p. 149
72 ‘and dinner parties’: ibid., p. 160
72 ‘wi
HHdely appreciated knack’: ibid., p. 161
72 ‘wants to leave’: MKR to her mother, 7 June 1931,
TOMS
, p. 15
72 ‘bathroom with her’: NLD
Chapter 5:
Wallis on the Sidelines
 
73 ‘mind made up’: W to AB, 13 Jan. 1931, Bloch,
Letter
s, p. 24
73 ‘his cultural horizons’: Philip Ziegler,
King Edward VIII: The Official Biography
, Collins 1990, p. 41
74 ‘his own thoughts’: ibid.
74 ‘a brute to his children’: James Lees-Milne,
Harold Nicolson
, vol. II:
1930 – 1968
, Chatto & Windus 1981, pp. 230 and 235
74 ‘allowed to fight!!’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 57
75 ‘of his inadequacy’: ibid., p. 58
75 and exercise less: see
LFP,
p. xvii
75 ‘am guilty of’: EP to King George V, 5 Sept. 1920, Royal Archives, quoted in Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 109
75 ‘unfair on Papa’: ibid., p. 75
76 ‘killed or wounded’: Alan Clark (ed.),
A Good Innings: The Private Papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham
, John Murray 1974, pp. 138 – 9
76 ‘long to angel!!’: EP to FDW, 26 March 1918,
LFP
p. 10
77 ‘fed up they are’: EP to FDW, 22 Dec. 1918,
LFP
p. 147
77 ‘a national disaster’: EP to FDW, 26 Oct. 1919,
LFP
p. 267
78 ‘and sounds Bolshevik’: EP to FDW,
LFP
pp. 346 – 7;
Daily Telegraph
, 6 June 2001
78 ‘can’t live together’: EP to FDW, 7 Nov. 1919,
LFP
p. 276
78 ‘feel like “resigning”!!’: EP to FDW, 24 Oct. 1919,
LFP
p. 266
78 ‘work for him’: EP to FDW, 18 Oct. 1921,
LFP
p. 262
78 ‘beloved little mummie!!’ EP to FDW, 14 Oct. 1919,
LFP
p. 259
79 ‘ancestry as poor Edward P’: Alan Lascelles to Nigel Nicolson, 5 Sept. 1965, Lascelles Papers, Lasl 8/8 Churchill Archives
79 ‘get away with it” ’: ibid.
79 ‘“lock him up”’: ibid.
80 ‘once a week’: ibid.
80 ‘the next morning’: interview with Sarah Bradford, Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/1, Churchill Archives
80 ‘for his role’: Duff Hart-Davis (ed.), Introduction to
In Royal Service
:
The Letters and Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles 1an kquote>
, Hamish Hamilton 1989, p. xi
81 ‘conventions of polite society’: Hector Bolitho,
King Edward VIII: His Life and Reign
, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1937, p. 75
82 ‘of one’s employer’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 110
82 ‘the couple concerned’: EP to Queen Mary, quoted in ibid., p. 171
82 ‘a flirtatious nature’: Wake,
Sisters of Fortune
, p. 208
82 ‘cos it’ll destroy me’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 173, 20 Feb. 1924, Broadlands Papers S 395
83 ‘mostly about trivialities’: King,
The Duchess of Windsor
, p. 96
83 ‘for this drama’: Sir Henry Channon,
Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon
, ed. Robert Rhodes James, Penguin 1967, p. 66; Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 223 for supplying the name
83 ‘coloured symphony toy’: Lady Diana Cooper,
The Light of Common Day
, Rupert Hart-Davis 1959, p. 162
84 ‘weekends, I suppose’: HRH The Duke of Windsor (hereafter DoW),
A King’s Story
, Cassell 1951, p. 237
84 ‘voyage would end’: Gloria Vanderbilt and Thelma, Lady Furness,
Double Exposure: A Twin Autobiography
, New York, David McKay 1958, p. 266
85 ‘frighteningly high’:
HHR
p. 171
85 ‘and utter naturalness’: ibid., p. 169
85 ‘but bad manners’: Vanderbilt and Furness,
Double Exposure
, p. 275
85 ‘I am right’:
HHR
p. 165
86 ‘an informal way’: W to AB, 13 Jan. 1931, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 24
86 ‘of them again’: W to AB, 5 Feb. 1931, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 28
86 ‘frowzy dressed town’: W to AB, 24 Jan. 1932, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 48
86 ‘without the cold’: W to AB, 16 April 1932, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 32
87 ‘talked until 2 o’clock’: MKR to Mrs H. C. Kirk, 2 June 1931,
TOMS
, p. 4
88 ‘for it anyway’: ibid.
88 ‘such an extravagance’:
HHR
p. 174
88 ‘imitations but effective’: W to AB, n.d., Bloch,
Letters
, p. 35
88 ‘the women look ghastly’:
HHR
p. 175
89 ‘can never marry her’: MKR diary, private archive
89 ‘can’t help me’: W to AB, 16 April 1931, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 31
89 ‘“out of danger, Buckie”’: NLD
Chapter 6:
Wallis in Control
 
91 ‘went very well’:
HHR
p. 190
91 ‘an unsavoury nature’: Nancy Dugdale diary
92 ‘billhook and whistling’:
HHR
p. 201
92 ‘ping pong balls’: ibid., p. 183
92 ‘to say what’: W to AB, 4 Feb. 1932, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 50
93 ‘could not resist’: W to AB, 26 Feb. 1932, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 60
93 ‘next six months’: W to AB, 11 Dec. 1932, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 62
93 ‘to a friendship’:
HHR
p. 191
94 ‘Thelma handed me’: NLD
94 ‘you need me’: W to AB, 17 May 1933, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 68
95 ‘to my figure’: ibid.
95 ‘Princess of Wales’: W to AB, 30 May 1933, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 70
95 ‘have refused her’: ibid.
95 ‘selfish old pig’: W to AB, 29 Oct. 1933, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 76
96 ‘look after him?’:
HHR
p. 192
96 ‘to be lonely’: Vanderbilt and Furness,
Double Exposure
, p. 291
96 ‘cheer him up’: W to AB, 26 Jan. 1934, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 84
96 ‘am the latest’: W to AB, 12 Feb. 1934, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 87
96 ‘with his papers’:
HHR
p. 193
96 ‘man is exhausting’: W to AB, 12 Feb. 1934, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 87
96 ‘during the dancing’:
HHR
p. 193
96 ‘all is safe’: W to AB, 18 Feb. 1934, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 89
97 ‘with him
alone
’: (Wallis italics) W to AB, 25 April 1934, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 93
97 ‘swansong before 40’: ibid.
97 ‘loved it all?’: W to AB, postmarked 21 April 1934, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 93
97 ‘time will show’: W to AB, 18 Nov. 1935, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 143
97 ‘all the time’: W to AB, 27 Oct. 1934, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 101
98 ‘as a Mason’: JCCD/d Feb. 1936, JCCD Papers 26, The Parliamentary Archive, House of Lords Record Office
98 ‘into sponsoring him’: Thomas Papers, quoted in Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 278,/blockquan>
98 ‘from him again’: Sarah Bradford,
Sunday Times
cutting 1998 n.d., private archive
99 ‘him exceedingly well’: Vanderbilt and Furness,
Double Exposure
, p. 298
99 ‘“is definitely no”’:
HHR
p. 194
100 ‘them more often’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 229
100 ‘not the second’: Aird Papers quoted in ibid.
100 ‘join the party’:
HHR
p. 195
100 ‘coward at heart’: Aird Papers quoted in Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 230
100 ‘cash in best’: ibid.
100 ‘like a dog’: ibid.
101 ‘friendship and love’:
HHR
p. 197
101 ‘keep them both’: W to AB, 5 Nov. 1934, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 101
102 ‘my own house!’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 231; Kenneth Rose,
King George V
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1983, p. 392
102 enclosure at Ascot: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 231, citing memo from Wigram, 12 April 1935, KEVIII Ab, box 4, Royal Archives
102 ‘of meaningless pleasantries’:
HHR
p. 205
102 ‘in the world’: HRH Prince Christopher of Greece,
Memoirs of HRH Prince Christopher of Greece
, Hurst & Blackett 1938, p. 62
102 ‘and especially me’: W to AB, 30 Dec. 1934, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 105
103 ‘awfully nice stones’: W to AB, 29 April 1935, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 117
103 ‘jewels and clothes’: Channon,
Diaries
, 7 Oct. 1935, p. 43
103 ‘the New Year’: Marie Belloc Lowndes,
Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes
, ed. Susan Lowndes, Chatto & Windus 1971, pp. 145 – 6
103 ‘doing splendidly, Wallis?’:
Daily Telegraph
obituary of Dudley Forwood, 27 Jan. 2001
104 ‘at the end’: W to E, n.d., Bloch,
Letters
, p. 118
104 ‘easier for me?’: ibid.
104 ‘from your youthfulness’: ibid.
104 £6,000 per annum: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 238
105 ‘Prince of Wales’: Channon,
Diaries
, p. 41
105 ‘her company, ourselves’: Helen Hardinge,
Loyal to Three Kings
, William Kimber 1967, p. 55
106 ‘to find it’: ibid., p. 54
106 ‘enter Royal society’: ibid.
106 ‘half an hour’: Channon,
Diaries
, p. 47
106 ‘charming, cultivated woman’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 232
107 ‘has admitted this’: 25 June 1935, marked ‘Secret’, MEPO 10/35, NA PRO
107 ‘is not clear’: S. M. Cretney, ‘The Divorce Law and the 1936 Abdication Crisis: A Supplemental Note’,
Law Quarterly Review
, 2004, pp. 163 – 71
107 ‘trouble with POW’: MEPO 10/35, NA PRO
107 when in drink’: 25 June 1935, signed Superintendent, marked ‘Secret’, MEPO 10/35, NA PRO
108 ‘but not Wallie’: Amanda Smith (ed.),
Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy
, Viking 2001, p. 263
108 ‘lived with her’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 233
108 ‘and no mistake’: ibid.
108 ‘married except David’: Rose,
King George V
, p. 390
108 ‘and the throne’: Mabell, Countess of Airlie,
Thatched with Gold
, Hutchinson 1962, p. 197
109 ‘of her friends’: Hardinge,
Loyal to Three Kings
, p. 57
109 ‘such as me’:
HHR
p. 216
109 ‘Silly Jubilee’: W to AB, 9 April 1935, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 115
109 ‘from royal lips’: Diary of Rev. Alan Don, ms 2863, Lambeth Palace Archives [herafter Don diary]
110 ‘significance had increased’: Philip Williamson, ‘The Monarchy and Public Values, 1910 – 1953’, in Andrzej Olechnowicz (ed.),
The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present
, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2007, p. 223
110 ‘the upper classes’: Frank Prochaska,
Republic of Britain
, Penguin Books 2000, pp. 207 – 9
110 ‘the younger generation’: ibid.
110 ‘air about it’: ibid.
111 ‘of my dreams’: W to AB, 31 July 1935, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 130
111 ‘angelic Ernest again’: W to AB, 14 Oct. 1935, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 141
111 ‘this eanum body’: EP to W, n.d., Bloch,
Letters
, p. 139

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