That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (45 page)

Abdication Bill (1936)
Aberdeen
Aberdeen Evening Argus
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Aird, John
d and
Airlie, David Wolseley Ogilvyh Earl of
Alberta: Edward’s EP ranch, near High River
Albion Gate, London
Alexander, Ulick
Alexandra, Queen of Edward VII,
Alexandre (hairdresser)
Allen, Charles Gordon
Allen, George
Allen, Dr Lewis Miles
Alsop, Susan Mary
see
Patten, Susan Mary
American Civil War
Amory, Cleveland
Anaesthetics Appeal Fund
Anderson, Mildred
Andrews, Canon Leonard
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS)
Angulo, Diana Hutchins
Anne Boleyn, Queen of Henry VIII,
Arden, Elizabeth
Astley Hall, Worcestershire
Astor, Nancy, Viscountess
Astor, WaldorfViscount
Attlee, Clement (
later
1st Earl)
Australia
Austria

Bache, Kitty
‘Bad Hats or Sundry Suspects’ file (SIS file, Shanghai)
Bahamas: Edward appointed governor; conditions; Government House; Windsors’ life in; Coastal Command training programme; clinic founded by Wallis; Oakes murder in; Shangri-La mansion; Wenner-Gren in; Windsors leave
Baldwin, Billy
Baldwin, Lucy, Countess
Baldwin, Monica
Baldwin, Stanley (
later
1st Earl): and rumoured ‘China Dossier’ on Wallis; Edward deceives; believes Edward mad; Edward mocks; replaces MacDonald as premier; and George V’s pessimism over Edward; and Edward’s lack of reading; and Edward’s ignoring official papers; never accuses Wallis of pro-Nazi views; invited with wife to York House; relates to ordinary people; on Goddard; and Edward’s intention to marry Wallis; Hilda Runciman discusses Edward situation with; and Australian view of Edward and Wallis; and Edward’s abdication; and morganatic marriage proposal; fears for Wallis’s safety; secret meetings with Edward; and Edward’s radio broadcast; and Bill to free Wallis to marry; and Ernest Simpson’s attempt to visit; as old Harrovian
Balenciaga (fashion house)
Balfour, Sir John (‘Jock’)
Balmoral, Scotland
Baltimore
Baltimore Sun
(newspaper)
Barcelona
Barnes, Sir Thomas (King’s Proctor)
Barnett, Lelia Montague
Baron Cohen, Simon
Baronet, Gerve
Barrymore, John
Bate, Fred (NBC journalist)
Bateman, William
Batterbee, Sir Harry
Beaton, (Sir) Cecil
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron
Bedaux, Charles
Bedaux, Fern
Beecham, Sir Thomas
Belgrave Square, London
Belton House, Lincolnshire
Bergdorf Goodman (New York store)
Berlin
Bernard, Sir Denis
Bevin, Ernest
Biarritz
Bigelow, Anne Meredith
see
Sackville, 4th Baron and Lady
Bigelow, Katherine
see
Rogers, Katherine
Birkett, Norman (
later
1st Baron)
Blackpool
Blanch, Lesley
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
Bloch, Michael
Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania
Blum, Léon
Blum, Maître Suzanne
Blunt, Alfred W.F., Bishop of Bradford
Bocher, Main Rousseau
see
Maini>
Bofors (Swedish company)
Bois de Boulogne: 4 Route du Champ d’Entraînement (Paris)
Bolitho, Hector
Bonaparte, Jérôme, King of Westphalia
Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon (‘Bo’)
Bonham-Carter, Lady Violet
Boston, Mass.
Bowes-Lyon, Lady Anne (Strathmores’ daughter)
Boyd, William:
Any Human Heart
Bradford, Bishop of
see
Blunt, Alfred W.F.
Bray: Hotel de Paris
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
British Legion
British Military Mission, France
British Union of Fascists
Brittain-Jones, Rosemary
Brockhurst, Gerald
Brody, Iles:
Gone with the Windsors
Brown, Ivor
Brown, John
Brownlow, Katherine, Lady
Brownlow, Peregrine Adelbert, 6th Baron (‘Perry’): Wallis socialises with ; accompanies Wallis on leaving England; and Edward’s denying abdication; and Wallis’s rumoured pregnancy; Evans complains of arrogance; snubbed on return from France; and Windsors’ wedding; on Wallis’s teaching Edward to lie
Bruce Lockhart
see
Lockhart
Bruce, Stanley
Buccleuch family
Buckingham Palace
Budapest
Buist, Lt Commander and Mrs Colin
Bullett, Gerald
Burke, Mary (Wallis’s maid)
Burrland summer camp

Caetani, Prince Gelasio
Canada; Silver Jubilee Cancer Fund
Candé, Château de
Cannes; Lou Viei villa
Canterbury, Archbishop of
see
Lang, Cosmo Gordon
Canton
Cap d’Antibes: Château de la Croë
Cap Ferrat: Villa Mauresque
Carlisle, Bridget Helen, Countess of (
née
Hore-Ruthven)
Carson, Sir Edward (
later
Baron)
Cartier (jewellers)
Cartland, (Dame) Barbara
Castle, Irene
Cavalcade
(magazine)
Cavendish-Bentinck, Lord Charles
Ceglie, Dr Domenico di,
Ceolwulf, King of Northumbria
Chamberlain, Neville
Channon, Sir Henry (‘Chips’)
Chaplin, (Sir) Charles
Charles I, King
Charles, Prince of Wales
Charles Russell (solicitors)
Chatfield, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Ernle Montacute (
later
1st Baron) and Lady
Chaumont
, USS
Chelsea Register Office
Cherbourg
Chesham, Margot, Lady (
née
Mills)
Child, Sir Francis
China;
see also
Canton; Peking; Shanghai
‘China Dossier’ (on Wallis)
Christie, Harold
Christopher, Prince of Greece
Church of England;
see also
Lang, Cosmo Gordon
Churchill, Clementine (
later
Lady)
Churchill, (Sir) Winston: advocates rearmament; as guest of Lady Colefax; supports Wallis as consort for Edward; on Edward’s violating royal conventions; vacillates over Edward-Wallis wedding; on Crystal Palace fire; Edward complains to of poverty; farewell meeting with Edward after abdication; as old Harrovian; on Wallis’s divorce; remains loyal to Edward; and Edward’s financial sspan>
Liberty
magazine; Edward harasses for medical treatment for Wallis in USA; on Edward’s attitude to Nazism; and proposed ambassadorial post for Edward after war
Ciano, Count Galeazzo
Claridge’s (hotel)
Clark, Kenneth (
later
Baron)
Colefax, Sibyl, Lady
Colis de Trianon relief organization
Colony Club, New York
Commons, House of
Communists
Continental Trust Company
Converse, James Vail
Convocation, Houses of
Coolidge, Constance
see
Jumilhac, Comtesse de
Cooper, Alfred Duff (
later
1st Viscount Norwich)
Cooper, Lady Diana
Coward, (Sir) Noël;
Blithe Spirit
Crathorne, 1st Baron
see
Dugdale, Sir Thomas
Crathorne, Nancy, Lady
see
Dugdale, Nancy, Lady
Crete
Cretney, Dr Stephen
Crisp (valet)
Cromer, Rowland Thomas Baring, 2nd Earl of
Crookshank, Harry
Crosby, Harry
Crystal Palace
Cumberland Terrace, Regent’s Park, London
Cunard, Maud Alice (Emerald), Lady

Darlington: St Paul’s Church
Dauglish, John, Bishop of Nassau
Davidson, Colin
Davidson, John Colin Campbell, 1st Viscount
Dawson (of Penn), Bertrand Edward, Viscount
Dawson, Geoffrey (
born
Robinson)
Dechert, Audrey
Dechert, Dorothea Parsons
see
Simpson, Dorothea Parsons
de Courcy, Kenneth
de Valera, Eamon
Devonshire, Evelyn Emily Mary, Duchess of
Diana, Princess of Wales
Dior, Christian (fashion house)
Disorder of Sexual Development (DSD)
Dodge, John and Minerva
Dollfuss, Engelbert
Don, Revd Alan
Donahue, Jimmy
Donaldson, Frances, Lady
Douw, Julia
Dowlais Aged Comrades Choir
Drumalis House, Larne, Co. Antrim
Dudley, Grace, Countess of (
née
Kolin)
Dudley, Laura, Countess of (
née
Charteris;
later
Duchess of Marlborough)
Dudley Ward, Angela
Dudley Ward, Freda
Dudley Ward, William (‘Duddie’)
Dudley, William Humble Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of
Dugdale, Nancy, Lady (
née
Tennant;
later
Lady Crathorne): sends Wallis’s handwriting for analysis; on Baldwin; on US press coverage of Edward-Wallis affair; on Wallis’s divorced status; mistrusts Churchill; on effect of Bishop Blunt’s speech; on Baldwin’s wishing Edward happiness; dismisses Wallis’s renunciation statement; on Edward’s financial allowance; on Edward’s broadcast; Wallis’s effect on
Dugdale, Sir Thomas (
later
1st Baron Crathorne)
Duke and Duchess of Windsor Society
Dunaway, Faye
du Pont, Renée
Durham, Bishop of am,on
see
Henson, Herbert Hensley
Dutton, E.P. (publishing house)

Eden, Anthony (
later
1st Earl of Avon)
Edinburgh, Duke of
see
Philip, Prince
Ednam Lodge, Sunningdale
Edward VII, King
Edward VIII, King (
earlier
Prince of Wales)
see
Windsor, Edward, Duke of
Edward and Mrs Simpson
(TV series)
Electrolux (company)
Elizabeth II, Queen (
earlier
Princess)
Elizabeth, Queen of George VI (
earlier
Duchess of York;
née
Bowes-Lyon): marriage; skating; Wallis’s acquaintance with; antipathy to Wallis; and death of George V; Edward sees little of; Wallis impersonates; and Wallis at Balmoral; letter to Edward on husband’s need for kindness; letter to Archbishop of Canterbury after abdication; letter to Lord Lloyd; regard for traditional morality; concern for stress on husband; and husband’s coronation; telegram to Windsors on wedding day; and Windsors’ planned US trip; visit to North America; and possible return of Windsors; refers to Wallis as ‘that woman’; as Queen Mother
Ellen (Baltimore seamstress)
Elliott, Maxine
Emory family
Emory, Dr (Wallis’s great-grandfather)
Enzesfeld, Schloss
Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount
Espil, Don Felipe
Espirito Santo Silva, Dr Ricardo de
Evans, Police Inspector
Evanston, Illinois
Excalibur
(ship)
Ezra family

Fanny Farmer Cookbook
Fayed, Dodi
Fayed, Mohamed al-
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Felixstowe
Findley, Timothy:
Famous Last Words
Fitzgerald, F. Scott:
The Great Gatsby
Fitzherbert, Maria
Fletcher, Judge George Latham
Forbes, Alastair
Fort Belvedere: as Edward’s home; Simpsons visit; Wallis’s alterations at; Diana Cooper visits; Wallis’s rooms at; Wallis’s behaviour at; Mary Raffray visits; entertaining at; Baldwin visits; Wallis moves to for security; Wallis leaves to move abroad; Edward meets family for last time at; Edward signs Instrument of Abdication at; Monckton visits to clear up; Windsors revisit; leased to Gerald Lascelles
Forwood, Dudley
France: armistice with Germany
Franco, General Francisco
Frank, Bruno (adapted):
Storm over Patsy
(play)
Freemasons
French Red Cross: Section Sanitaire Automobile (SSA)
Frogmore, Windsor
Furness, Anthony, 2nd Viscount
Furness, Marmaduke, 1st Viscount
Furness, Thelma, Viscountess
Furness Withy (shipping company)
Fury
, HMS