That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (42 page)

211 ‘have given up’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 351

211 ‘see her suffering’: DoW to WM, 31 Oct. 1938, Dep. Monckton Trustees 16, fol. 176, Bodl. Lib.

212 ‘“the Duke down”’:
Daily Telegraph
obituary of Dudley Forwood, 27 Jan. 2001

212 ‘recognised with incredulity’:
HHR
p. 282

212 ‘try not to’: W to EAS, Monday 30 Aug. 1937, private archive

212 ‘courage for that’: ibid.

212 ‘knew you would’: ibid.

213 ‘for a dentist’: ibid.

213 ‘book in it’: Mary Simpson diary, 1938, private archive

213 ‘With love, Wallis’: W to EAS, n.d., private archive

214 ‘the other way’: WM to Tommy Dugdale, 23 Dec. 1936, Dep. Monckton Trustees 14, Bodl. Lib.

214 ‘with good publicity’: DoW to Bernard Rickatson-Hatt, 18 May 1938, Thomson Reuters Archive

214 ‘old Palace enemies’: ibid.

215 ‘and the Nazis’: quoted in Rose,
King George V
, citing Mensdorff Papers, 11 Nov. 1933, State Archives, Vienna

216 ‘him a lot’: Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/7, Churchill Archives

216 ‘England in December’: DoW to WM, 16 July 1937, Dep. Monckton Trustees 15, fol. 237, Bodl. Lib.

216 ‘British working man’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 390, quoting Phipps

216 ‘German mining industry’: Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/6, Churchill Archives

216 ‘are much nicer’: W to EAS, n.d., private archive

217 ‘his bombastic pretensions’: DoW,
A King’s Story
, p. 277

217 ‘of Hun origin’: Higham,
Mrs Simpson
, p. 259

217 ‘discussion with him!’:
HHR
p. 308

217 ‘not a crime’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 386

218 ‘for his security’: Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/7, Churchill Archives

218 ‘for “That Woman”’: Crawford Papers, Vincent,
Journals of David Lindsay
, pp. 616 – 21

219 ‘his eyes now?’: Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart,
The Diaries of Robert Bruce Lockhart 1915 – 38
, ed. Kenneth Young, Macmillan 1973, 10 Dec. 1938, p. 413

219 ‘pray to God. Wallis’: W to EAS, Saturday 30 October 1937, private archive

219 ‘or racial doctrine’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 396

220 ‘score for us’: Mary Simpson diary, private archive

220 ‘back of it’: Shawcross,
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
, pp. 423 – 4

220 ‘controversy about it’: ibid., p. 446

221 ‘between us impossible’: ibid.

221 ‘distinction and success’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 393

221 ‘List is considered’: WSC to Clementine Churchill, 7 Jan. 1937, Mary Soames (ed.),
Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill
, Doubleday 1998, pp. 422 – 3

222 ‘a devoted servant’: WSC to Maxine Elliott, 30 Dec. 1937, Char 1/300/86, Churchill Archives

222 ‘most happy marriage’: WSC to Clementine Churchill, 10 Jan. 1938, Soames,
Speaking for Themselves
, p. 433

223 ‘life in exile’: Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters 1930 – 39
, p. 351

223 ‘were probably retarded’: Colin Davidson to WM, 5 Sept. 1938, Dep. Monckton Trustees 16, fol. 134, Bodl. Lib.

223 ‘to stop him’: WSC to Clementine Churchill, 18 Jan. 1939, Soames,
Speaking for Themselves
, p. 449

223 ‘just a reminder’: W to WM, 2 Feb. 1938, Dep. Monckton Trustees 16, fols. 31 – 32, Bodl. Lib.

224 ‘brother of the King’: ibid.

224 ‘not kicked out’: Colin Davidson to WM, 5 Sept. 1938, Dep. Monckton Trustees 16, fol. 134, Bodl. Lib.

224 ‘older I realise it’:
Sunday Dispatch
, 12 March 1939

225 ‘all to subdue’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 399

225 ‘fools and rogues’: Mary Simpson diary, private archive

226 ‘remains the same’: copies of both telegrams, 27 Aug. 1939, Dep. Monckton Trustees 17, fol. 93, Bodl. Lib.

226 ‘were our guests’: LAM uesing fdiary

226 ‘still at Antibes’: Dep. Monckton Trustees 22, fols. 1 – 103, WM typed account of events October to December 1936 with postscript, Bodl. Lib.

226 ‘jumping out, etc’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 403

227 ‘only a grip’: DoW to British Ambassador in Paris, 3 Sept. 1939, relayed to WM, Dep. Monckton Trustees 17, fol. 122, Bodl. Lib.

227 ‘of your PRIDE’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 403, quoting Metcalfe Papers

228 ‘of his departure’: LAM diary

228 ‘have skated on’: ibid.

228 ‘did not exist’:
HHR
p. 324

228 ‘and completely simple’: LAM diary

229 ‘ever to return’: ibid.

229 ‘and speak English’: W to WM, 2 Jan. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fols. 13v – 14, Bodl. Lib.

229 ‘in my life’:
HHR
p. 328

230 ‘is the end’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 417

231 ‘never occur again’: FO 800/326 f. 195, NA PRO

232 ‘a few politicians’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 421

232 ordered him home: Char 20/9A/11 – 12, Churchill Archives

232 ‘end of the war’: W to WM, 2 Jan. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fol. 12, Bodl. Lib.

232 ‘a little silly’:
HHR
p. 41

233 ‘fill with you’: ibid.

233 ‘reconsider my position’: 18 July 1940, Char 20 9A/76, Churchill Archives

233 ‘a petulant baby’: 20 July 1940, Char 20 9A/76, Churchill Archives

234 ‘maximum of frustration’: Michael Bloch,
The Duke of Windsor’s War
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1982, p. 96

235 ‘permanent slimming cure’: King,
The Duchess of Windsor
, p. 356

235 ‘for the figure’: DoW to WM, 27 Sept. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fol. 108, Bodl. Lib.

235 ‘happens to you’: Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/7, Churchill Archives

235 ‘off in a passion’: ibid.

235 ‘of such orders’: W to WM, 16 Sept. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fols. 100 – 101, Bodl. Lib.

237 ‘things less unpleasant’: WM to DoW, 26 Aug. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fol. 90, Bodl. Lib.

237 ‘the past months’: W to WM, 16 Sept. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fol. 99, Bodl. Lib.

237 ‘you, dear Walter’: ibid.

238 ‘seen any number’: W to WM, 2 Oct. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fols. 113v – 114, Bodl. Lib.

238 ‘me to them’: W to WM, 23 Oct. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fols. 125 – 129, Bodl. Lib.

238 ‘with no future’: W to Edith Lindsay, 30 Aug. 1942, MHS

238 ‘common and uninteresting’: Michael Bloch,
The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor
, Transworld 1988, p. 175

239 ‘would be solved’: W to WM, 5 March 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fol. 22, Bodl. Lib.

239 ‘them as such’: W to WM, 16 May 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fols. 81 – 82, Bodl. Lib.

239 ‘with the Duke’: ibid.

240 ‘as you know’: W to WM, 30 April 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fols. 43 – 44, Bodl. Lib.

240 ‘it is alarming’: ibid.

240 ‘paper the better’: WSC to WM, 11 June 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fol. 97, Bodl. Lib.

241 ‘
only
ill two weeks’: W to WM, 17 June 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fols. 103 – 106, Bodl. Lib.

241 ‘pinned on the Duke’: W to WM, Sept. 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fols. 197 – 201, Bodl. Lib.

241 ‘burst from his cell’: ibid.

242 ‘peace and happiness’: King,
The Duchess of Windsor
, p. 364

242 ‘quite a while!!!’: EP to FDW, 7 Sept. 1919,
LFP
p. 228

242 ‘Ernest like mine’: Mary Simpson diary, April 1940, private archive

242 ‘not crying over’: Mary Simpson to Anne Kirk, 24 Oct. 1939,
TOMS
, p. 128

243 ‘be made public’: Kirk Hollingsworth, Conversation with author, 1 Nov. 2009

243 ‘Windsors are perfect’: Mary Simpson diary, 1 Dec. 1940, private archive

243 ‘for the future’: W to EAS, 3 Oct. 1941, private archive

244 ‘remarkable a degree’: René MacColl,
Deadline and Dateline
, Oldbourne Press 1956, pp. 124 – 5

244 ‘dropped his arm’: ibid.

244 ‘full of clothing’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 467

244 ‘those on the spot’: W to Edith Lindsay, April 1943, ‘On board the boat and rocky’, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection

244 ‘consider this outrageous’: King,
The Duchess of Windsor
, p. 364

244 ‘are strictly rationed’:
Washington Star
, 29 Oct. 1941

245 ‘do without her’: Rosa Wood to Edith Lindsay, 25 Oct. 1942, MHS

245 ‘isn’t for charity’: W to WM, 5 March 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fols. 197 – 201, Bodl. Lib.

245 ‘and pathetic surroundings’: ibid.

245 ‘off to England’: W to Edith Lindsay, 28 March 1942, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection

246 ‘two months leave’: W to Edith Lindsay, 30 Aug. 1942, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection

246 ‘other any more’: W to Edith Lindsay, 5 Feb. 1943, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection

246 been further reconciliation: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 484

246 ‘wall of disinterest’: Bloch,
The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor
, p. 202

247 ‘all too tragic’: W to Edith Lindsay, 23 July 1943, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection

247 ‘you this minute’: ibid.

247 ‘and attractive people’: W to Edith Lindsay, Sept. 1943, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection

248 ‘free once more’: W to WM, Sept. 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fols. 197 – 201, Bodl. Lib.

248 ‘people, I find’: W to Edith Lindsay, Sept. 1943, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection

248 ‘allows such behaviour?’: W to AB, 15 July 1940, Bloch,
The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor
, p. 163

248 ‘on 80,000,000 people?’:
Liberty
, March 1941, quoted in Bloch,
The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor
, p. 187

249 ‘might be arranged’: Bloch,
The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor
, p. 188

249 ‘that appointed me’: ibid., p. 189

249 ‘an unwarranted step’: DoW to WSC, 10 Nov. 1942, Churchill Papers 20/63, Chartwell Trust

250 ‘the Duchess’s loyalty’: King George VI to WSC, 9 Dec. 1942, Churchill Papers 20/52, Chartwell Trust

250 ‘be in obscurity’: Wallis to Edith Lindsay, 23 April 1943, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection

250 ‘share these views’: King George VI to WSC, 8 Dec. 1942, Churchill Papers 20/52, Chartwell Trust

250 ‘interfere in politics’: Horace Wilson to Chancellor of Exchequer, 10 Dec. 1936, PREM 1/453, NA PRO

250 ‘in enemy hands’: FO 371/24249 f. 155, NA PRO

251 ‘less easily defended’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 458

252 ‘campaign against her’: Unsigned confidential memorandum, New York, 1 Aug. 1944, FBI Papers, US Department of Justice

252 ‘publishers and editors’: ibid.

252 ‘exercise discreet observations’: Department of State to Attorney General, 18 April 1941, FBI Papers, US Department of Justice

252 ‘out of placeotment ’: Memorandum for the Director, 21 April 1941, FBI Papers, US Department of Justice

252 ‘the Duke’s eyes’: W to WM, 30 April 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fol. 41, Bodl. Lib.

253 ‘at Number 10’: DoW to WM, 1946, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20, fol. 24, Bodl. Lib.

253 ‘in world history’:
Sunday Telegraph
, 21 Oct. 2001.