That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (41 page)

164 ‘for the first time’: Brownlow diary, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9, Lincolnshire Archives

164 ‘of this need’: Lang Papers 1936, Lambeth Palace Archives

165 ‘in the wilderness’: Nancy Dugdale diary

165 ‘just SB’s luck!’: ibid.

165 ‘to advise him’: 4 Dec. 1936, Lang Papers, Lambeth Palace Archives

165 ‘and his ministers’: ibid.

166 ‘a great deal’: Nancy Dugdale diary

166 ‘“will be happy”’: ibid.

166 ‘wished me happiness’: ibid.

166 ‘de la douleur’: ibid.

166 ‘you, my darling’: Brownlow diary

167 ‘knife into them’: Shawcross,
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
, p. 364

167 ‘our fingers crossed’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 310

167 ‘deportee or exile’: Brownlow diary

167 ‘to winter conditions’: ibid.

167 ‘difficult to recapture’:
HHR
p. 265

167 she had reached Cannes: Thomson Reuters Archive

167 ‘Tell the country’: W to EP, n.d., Bloch,
Letters
, p. 216

168 ‘Roosevelt’s “fireside chats”’:
HHR
p. 253

168 ‘crown and throne’: TS 221, NA PRO

168 ‘a married woman’:
Baldwin Papers
, p. 402

169 ‘tack was hopeless’: Sir Edward Peacock notes, Dep. Monckton Trustees 22, fol. 277, Bodl. Lib.

169 ‘for all time’: Humphrey Keenlyside,
Allen & Overy: The Firm
, vol. I:
1930 – 1998
, Allen & Overy 1999

170 ‘could not interfere’: Nancy Dugdale diary

170 ‘unhappy and untenable’:
HHR
p. 273

170 ‘for the best’: ibid.

170 ‘petition for divorce’: Zetland Papers, Mss Eur D 609/7

170 ‘turn against me’: Susan Williams,
The People’s King: The True Story of the Abdication
, Penguin Books 2003, p. 191

171 ‘it would be’, ‘WM typed account of events October to Dec 1936 with postscripts and additional comments from others’, Dep. Monckton Trustees 22, fols. 1 – 103, Bodl. Lib.

171 ‘her magnanimous gesture’: Nancy Dugdale diary

171 ‘wicket was determined’: Sir Horace Wilson to WM, 5 Feb. 1949, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20, fol. 37, Bodl. Lib.

172 ‘eventually marry her’: 13 Aug. 1949, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20, fol. 74 TG statement, Bodl. Lib.

172 ‘into her confidence!’: Sir Horace Wilson to WM, 5 Feb. 1949, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20, fol. 37, Bodl. Lib.

172 ‘curious little document’: Lascelles to WM on Buckingham Palace notepaper, 6 Jan. 1949, Dep. Monckton Trustees 22, fol. 30, Bodl. Lib.

172 ‘to do anything’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 313, citing Thomas Dugdale diary, 9 Dec. 1936, Crathorne Papers

173 speaking to him: 10 Dec. 1936, MEPO, NA PRO

173 ‘most painful degree’: Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill
, vol. V, pp. 814 – 17

173 ‘it appalled me’: Monica Baldwin,
Baldwin Papers
, p. 422

173 ‘“in the world”’: ibid.

174 ‘reason with him’: ibid.

174 not the least: Conclusions of Meetings of the Cabinet 28 Oct. – 16 Dec. 1936, vol. LIII, CAB 23/86, NA PRO

174 ‘been in Bedlam’:
Baldwin Papers
, p. 411

174 ‘with That Woman’: Thomas Dugdale diary, 8 Dec. 1936, Cranthorne Papers

174 ‘earn her contempt’: Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, p. 327

174 ‘invective from Cannes’: Thomas Dugdale diary, 8 Dec. 1936, Cranthorne Papers

174 ‘day he died’: Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, p. 327

175 ‘Sir Horace Wilson … ’: 13 June 1938, Smith,
Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy
, p. 262

175 ‘£5,000 a year’: Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, p. 326

175 ‘all over world’: Nancy Dugdale diary

176 ‘up in Parliament’: Smith,
Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy
, p. 262

176 ‘I was completely misled’: Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, p. 327

176 ‘I have written’: ibid., p. 324

176 ‘of Mrs Simpson’: Lt Col Tweed to Lloyd George, 15 Dec. 1936, J. G. Jones, ‘Lloyd George and the Abdication of Edward VIII’,
National Library of Wales Journal
, vol. 30, 1997, pp. 89 – 105

177 King Charles I: DoW,
A King’s Story
, p. 409

177 ‘thing he disliked’: Virginia Woolf,
Selected Diaries
, ed. Anne Olivier Bell, Vintage 2008, 10 Dec. 1936, p. 401

178 ‘hide my tears’:
HHR
p. 278

178 ‘he had chosen’: Lang Papers, Lambeth Palace Archives

178 ‘a faint reality’: Nancy Dugdale diary

179 ‘when he needs’: draft letter to Queen Mary, Dep. Monckton Trustees 14, fols. 64 – 65, Bodl. Lib.

179 ‘could turn in’: Shaughnessy,
Both Ends of the Candle
, p. 45

179 ‘all one’s heart’: Lucy Baldwin to Nancy Dugdale, reproduced in Nancy Dugdale diary

180 ‘Elizabeth R’: Don diary, 12 Dec. 1936

180 ‘wonderfully self controlled’: 10 Dec. 1936, Lang Papers, Lambeth Palace Archives

180 ‘display of power’: Thornton,
Royal Feud
, p. 112, citing private information

180 ‘in many respects’: Hardinge,
Loyal to Three Kings
, p. 114

180 ‘away from visitors’: Channon,
Diaries
, 29 Nov. 1936, p. 111

180 ‘somebody in authority’: Memorandum by Sir Thomas Barnes, 22 Feb. 1937, TS 22/1/4, NA PRO

181 ‘and Mrs S’: Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, p. 330, citing Memorandum by Wigram, 7 Dec. 1936, KEVIII Ab. box 4, Royal Archives

181 ‘love with him’: Cecil Beaton,
Self-Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton 1926 – 74
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1979, p. 305

181 ‘to meet Ernest’: Baldwin Papers, p. 410

181 ‘by blind prejudice’:
HHR
p. 276

181 ‘never repay today’: quoted in Jones, ‘Lloyd George and the Abdication of Edward VIII’, p. 92

182 ‘ministers and parliament’:
HHR
p. 247

182 ‘as their means’: Nancy Dugdale diary, citing ‘letter that came into my hands’ from W to Mrs George (Kitty) Hunter, postmarked 3 January 1937

182 ‘was prepared to pay’: ‘Lloyd George and the Abdication of Edward VIII’
, National Library of Wales Journal
, vol. 30, 1997, p. 95

183 ‘the little man’: Lloyd George to Megan Lloyd George, 9 Dec. 1936, MS 20 475C no. 3150, National Library of Wales

183 ‘thought the same’: Duff Hart-Davis (ed.),
The King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War – The Diaries of ‘Tommy’ Lascelles
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006, p. 50

183 ‘He will abdicate’: Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, p. 199

184 ‘few vital days’: MEPO 10/35, NA PRO

185 ‘wherever I went’: Martin,
The Woman He Loved
, p. 12

185 Mrs Fitzherbert: Beaverbrook Papers, series G 25, memo of 9 Sept. 1949

185 ‘with you throughout!’: Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, p. 330, citing Royal Archives DW 3059

185 ‘so sit all day’: W to EAS, postmarked 22 Dec. 1936, private archive

185 ‘that have been’: EAS to W, Oct. 1936, letter sold at auction widely quoted in UK press and Vickers, p. 417

186 ‘counted his royalties’: Forbes,
TLS
, 1 Nov. 1974

186 ‘sacrifice to himself’: Sarah Bradford to Piers Brendon, Brendon Papers 2/2/1, Churchill Archives

186 ‘lowest of the low’: letter to Lord Lloyd, 6 July 1940, marked ‘Windsor Castle copy’, Papers of Lord Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD 21/7, Churchill Archives

187 ‘loved King Edward’: speech widely reported – this version
Daily Telegraph
, Monday 14 Dec. 1936, Amel 1/5/25, Churchill Archives

187 ‘been the medium’: Reith to Lang, 14 Dec. 1936, Lang Papers, 192 FO 380

187 ‘and pathetic figure’: Rev. Dr A. C. Bouquet, quoted in G. Machin, ‘Marriage and the Churches in the 1930s’,
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
, vol. 42, 1991, 68 – 81

188 ‘intolerance and obscurantism’:
New Statesman
, 19 Dec. 1936

188 ‘of normal love’: Lang Papers, vol. 318, Lambeth Palace Archives

188 ‘a sincere response’: 21 Dec. 1936, Lang Papers, Notes on the Abdication, Lambeth Palace Archives

188 ‘Royal Family again’: quoted in letter from ‘A Scout’ to A. J. Sylvester, 5 Jan. 1936 [
recte
1937], Jones, ‘Lloyd George and the Abdication of Edward VIII’, p. 104

189 leave the country: Hansard, House of Commons, vol. 318, col. 2216

189 form a government: Francis Beckett,
The Rebel Who Lost his Cause: The Tragedy of John Beckett MP,
Allison & Busby 2000, p. 141

190 ‘his own ends’: Woolf,
Selected Diaries
, 7 Dec. 1936, p. 400

190 ‘cock crew thrice’: quoted in Masters,
Great Hostesses
, p. 186

191 ‘shown to me’: Brownlow to Cromer, 23 Dec. 1936, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/6/11, Lincolnshire Archives

191 ‘row to hoe’: Baldwin to Brownlow, 12 Jan. 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/7/a, Lincolnshire Archives

191 ‘it long ago’: W to Brownlow, ‘Friday 19th’ [either Feb. or March 1937], Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/9, Lincolnshire Archives

191 soon as possible: 15 Dec. 1936, Legh to Thomas, quoted in Ziegler,
King Edpanidth="-20ward VIII
, p. 339

191 ‘anything might happen’: Don diary

191 ‘a monarch’s service’:
Daily Telegraph
obituary of Dudley Forwood, 27 Jan. 2001

192 ‘shun the game’: Wilson,
Her Name was Wallis Warfield
, Dec. 1936

192 ‘am very sad’: W to EAS, n.d., private archive

193 ‘be there anyway’: 22 Dec. 1936, Dep. Monckton Trustees 14, fol. 77, Bodl. Lib.

193 ‘simply haven’t understood’: W to Kitty Rothschild, 18 Dec. 1936, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 235

193 ‘that fatal charm!’: W to EP, n.d., Bloch,
Letters
, p. 253

193 ‘(I suspect that)’: ibid.; also quoted in Williams,
The People’s King
, p. 268

194 ‘my morning tray’:
HHR
p. 280

194 ‘he should pay’: all the above from CAB 21/4100/2 index to secret file, NA PRO

194 ‘take her in’:
HHR
p. 277

194 ‘in English law’: Stephen Cretney, ‘The King and the King’s Proctor’,
Law Quarterly Review
, vol. 16, 2000, 583 – 620

194 ‘on six pounds’: Higham,
Mrs Simpson
, p. 210

195 ‘must be stopped’: EAS to Mrs E. L. Simpson, 1 Jan. 1937, private archive

195 ‘against their intentions’: W to EAS, 16 Feb. 1937, private archive

195 ‘it is now’: ibid.

196 ‘them torn up’: W to E, 16 Feb. 1937, private archive

196 ‘Katherine by now … !’: ibid.

196 ‘is no longer King’: MKR to Annie Kirk, 7 Jan. 1937,
TOMS
, p. 50

197 ‘jewels at all’: Constance Coolidge Atherton, Comtesse de Jumilhac, to ‘Crownie’, 28 May 1937, Maryland Historical Society (hereafter MHS) MS 1772 Windsor Collection

197 ‘only formal routine’: Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 5 March 1937, Lascelles Papers, Lasl 11/001/16a, Churchill Archives

197 ‘him in turn’: ibid.

197 ‘from such servants’: TS 22/1/A, NA PRO

198 ‘does in fact exist’: ibid.

198 to give evidence: ibid.

199 ‘my business career’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 363

200 ‘up from Fortnums’: MKR to Jacques Raffray, 18 May 1937,
TOMS
, pp. 53 – 5

200 ‘practically killed me’: W to EAS, 12 May 1937, private archive

200 ‘in this way’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 356

200 ‘at the ceremony’: ibid.

200 ‘with stoical dignity’: ibid.

201 to the Duke: Sarah Bradford, Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/1, Churchill Archives

201 ‘such a thing’: Alec Sergeant’s notes marked ‘Private and Confidential’, Lang Papers, Lambeth Palace Archives

202 ‘such monstrous suggestions’: Wigram to Lang, 5 April 1937, Lang Papers, vol. 318, Lambeth Palace Archives

202 ‘thousand times harder’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 348

202 ‘do anything else’: ibid., p. 355

202 finish his breakfast: Owen Chadwick,
Hensley Henson
, Oxford University Press 1983, p. 232

203 ‘his Parish Church’: 5 May 1937, Crawford Papers, John Vincent (ed.),
The Journals of David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres 1871 – 1940
, Manchester University Press 1984, p. 579

203 ‘be doubly bigamous’: ibid.

203 ‘“told this before?”’: ibid.

204 ‘him by death’: cutting in TS 221/8, NA PRO

204 ‘hates us both’: W to DoW, 7 Feb. 1937, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 258

204 ‘off the throne’: Higham,
Mrs Simpson
, p. 220

204 ‘for exceptional treatment’: Stamfordham to Davidson, 29 July 1922, Archbishop Davidson Papers, 6/76

204 ‘I can’t see’: W to DoW, 6 Feb. 1937, Bloch,
Letters
, p. 256

204 ‘has no jurisdiction’: Chadwick,
Hensley Henson
, p. 231

205 ‘silent and loyal’: Sue Shephard,
The Surprising Life of Constance Spry
, Macmillan 2010, p. 204

205 ‘would see them’: ibid., p. 207

205 ‘and good taste’: Brownlow to W, 26 April 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/17, Lincolnshire Archives

205 ‘become very difficult’: Nugent Hicks to Brownlow, 18 May 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/21, Lincolnshire Archives

206 ‘“ex-King of England”’: Shephard,
The Surprising Life of Constance Spry
, p. 207

206 ‘a broad grin’: ibid., p. 205

206 ‘this for me’: Chadwick,
Hensley Henson
, p. 232

207 ‘the worst blow’: private diaries of Lady Alexandra Metcalfe (hereafter LAM), with thanks to David Metcalfe for permission to quote from them

207 ‘her American friends’: MKR to Buckie Kirk, 30 May 1937, Radcliffe/Schlesinger collection

208 ‘title being conferred’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 358

208 ‘to become Royal’: ibid., p. 359

208 ‘a nice wedding present’: ibid., p. 360

208 ‘weakness in everything’: LAM diary

208 ‘heaped on her’: ibid.

209 ‘most disastrous results’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 358

209 ‘king of England’: LAM diary

210 ‘birth or connections’:
HHR
p. 280

210 ‘happiness much love’: Dep. Monckton Trustees 15, fol. 176, Bodl. Lib.

210 ‘a younger man’: LAM diary

210 ‘“make him happy”’: Birkenhead,
Walter Monckton
, p. 362