That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (43 page)

254 ‘of the earth’: Bloch,
Duchess of Windsor
, p. 184

255 ‘unrelenting royal family’:
Time
, 28 Oct. 1946

255 ‘near to tears’: Laura, Duchess of Marlborough,
Laughter from a Cloud
, pp. 104 – 5

255 ‘man so relieved’: ibid.

255 ‘to Queen Alexandra’: ibid.

256 ‘denied to her’: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington, 27 Oct. 1946, Smith,
Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy
, p. 632

256 ‘Sovereign of this country’:
The Duke’s Consultations of Jowitt on the Question of the Duchess’s Title
, cited in Bloch,
The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor
, p. 311

256 ‘“Her Royal Highness”’: ibid., p. 310

256 ‘of good manners’: ibid., p. 312

257 ‘is very sexy’: Suzy Menkes,
The Windsor Style
, Grafton Books 1987, p. 191

259 ‘forms of surgery’: consultant psychiatrist Dr Iain Oswald, Conversation with author, 13 Feb. 2011

260 ‘only granite below’: Bloch,
The Duchess of Windsor
, p. 195

260 ‘and quite brilliant journalist’: DoW to WM, 8 Dec. 1948, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20, fol. 24, Bodl. Lib.

261 ‘to the top’: W to EAS, 13 July 1955, private archive

262 ‘get
me
one’: J. Bryan III and Charles J. V. Murphy,
The Windsor Story
, Granada 1979, p. 519

262 ‘who they were’: Linda Mortimer, Conversations with author, New York, 2 Nov. 2009

262 ‘“pushed me off”’: Charles Pick, unpublished memoir courtesy of Martin Pick, n.d.

263 ‘is sadly diminished’: Elsa Maxwell,
American Weekly
, 18 Dec. 1955

263 ‘“go against me!”’: ibid.

263 ‘of her appearance’: Elsa Maxwell,
American Weekly
, 11 Dec. 1955

264 ‘now in death’: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 538

264 ‘Cookie and Shirley’: 7 March 1953, Bloch,
The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor
, p. 273

264 ‘English or French’: quoted in Menkes,
The Windsor Style
, p. 62

264 ‘not good enough’: ibid., p. 63

264 ‘no real charm’: ibid.

265 ‘“to talk to”’: Susan Mary Alsop,
To Marietta from Paris 1945 – 1960
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1976, p. 54

265 ‘life in exile’: Lees-Milne,
Harold Nicolson
, vol. II, p. 269

266 ‘you eanum flowers’: Menkes,
The Windsor Style
, p. 17

266 ‘up the pansy’, Haslam,
Redeeming Features
, p. 193

266 ‘their upward rise’: Helen Worden,
American Mercury
, June 1944

268 ‘admirable at all’: interview with Frank Giles, Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/7, Churchill Archives

268 ‘grovelling to me’: John Balfour,
Not Too Correct an Aureole
, John Russell 1983, p. 64

269 ‘down at once’: interview with Kenneth de Courcy, Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/5, Churchill Archives

269 ‘un-undressable as Wallis’: Haslam,
Redeeming Features
, p. 194

269 ‘decorators and couturiers’: Bloch,
The Duchess of Windsor
, p. 191

269 Duke and Duchess: Higham,
Mrs Simpson
, p. 455

270 ‘plans and planning’:
HHR
p. 365

270 ‘the Queen Mary’: Charles Pick, unpublished memoir courtesy of Martin Pick, n.d.

272 ‘coming back here’: Bloch,
The Duchess of Windsor
, p. 216

273 ‘awfully to live’: Mary Simpson diary, private archive

273 ‘had been friends’: ibid.

274 a small monkey: Haslam,
Redeeming Features
, p. 195

274 in her nose: Caroline Blackwood,
The Last of the Duchess
, Macmillan 1995, p. 14

274 from the Queen: Ziegler,
King Edward VIII
, p. 555

274 it did not: King,
The Duchess of Windsor
, p. 489

275 ‘bottles of drink’: Anne Boston,
Lesley Blanch: Inner Landscapes, Wilder Shores
, John Murray 2010, p. 226, citing Maureen Cleave interview in
Daily Telegraph
, 1987

276 ‘to the press’: Hugo Vickers,
Behind Closed Doors
, Hutchinson 2011, p. 127

276 of the Duchess: Nichola McAuliffe,
Daily Mail
, 14 Feb. 2009

277 ‘w
The Windsor Style
, p. 139

278 ‘couple’s romantic legacy’:
www.alfayed.com

279 ‘Constitution stand for’: Kenneth W. Prescott and Emma-Stina Prescott,
The Complete Graphic Works of Jack Levine
, New York, Dover Publications 1984, p. 48

280 ‘little more light’: E. B. Kirk to Lady Donaldson, May 1979, Kirk Family Archive

280 ‘them into life’: William Boyd,
Bamboo
, Hamish Hamilton 2005, p. 573

281 ‘private affairs, angel’: EP to FDW, 21 Sept. 1919,
LFP
p. 240

281 ‘porcelain dinner service’: Javier Marías,
Your Face Tomorrow
, New Directions 2005, pp. 460 – 3

281 ‘in Hitler’s hands’: ibid.

282 ‘within my capacities’:
HHR
p. 97

282 ‘out of life’: ibid.