The Duchess Of Windsor (87 page)

Donaldson, 407—408.

 

Bloch,
War
, 148.

Donaldson, 408.

Shew, 76.

Brendon and Whitehead, 111-113.

Ibid.

Longford,
Queen Mother,
86.

National Archives, Washington, D.C.: U.S. State Department file 844E/12.5, ff.12/6.

Private information.

Bloch,
War
, 190.

Private information.

Pye, 194—95.

Bloch,
War
, 183.

Quoted, Bloch,
War
, 183.

Quoted, Pye, 138.

Pye, 188.

Ibid., 138-39.

Private information.

Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
, 9 June 1943.

Pye, 188—89.

Ibid., 189.

Ibid., 189.

WW, 344—45.

Pye, 189—90.

New York Post
, 5 June 1943.

Letter of the duchess of Windsor, in private collection.

Quoted, Bloch,
File
, 84—85.

Quoted, Howarth, 143.

Vickers,
Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
, 185.

 

Cited, Ziegler, 396.

National Archives, Washington, D.C.: U.S. State Department file 811.711/4039, dated 18 June 1943.

National Archives, Washington, D.C.: U.S. State Department file 800.20211/W G/44 1/2, dated 25 January 1941.

Quoted, Pye, 114.

National Archives, Washington, D.C.: U.S. State Department file RG 59/2682K/1940-1944.

National Archives, Washington, D.C.: U.S. State Department file 70032L, no. X1937/188/503.

Documents on German Foreign Policy
,
1918—1945,
ser. C, vol. X, introductory statement.

See Costello, chapter 17, for a full examination of the incident.

De Marginy 28.

Mosley,
The Duchess of Windsor
, 167.

Bloch,
File
, 211-12; Bryan and Murphy, 476; Ziegler, 427.

Associated Press article, dated 11 September 1944.

WW, 347.

Ibid., 348.

Quoted, Bloch,
File
, 86.

Bloch,
War
, 338.

Quoted, Thornton, 227.

Bryan and Murphy, 439.

WW, 349-50.

New York Daily Mirror
, 8 December 1946.

WW, 353.

 

Bloch,
File
, 223.

Private information.

WW, 354.

Bryan and Murphy, 487.

Alsop, 55.

Bryan and Murphy, 491.

Payn and Morley, 54, 61.

Bryan and Murphy, 491.

New York Daily Mirror
, 8 December 1946.

Nicolson,
Diaries
, 98-99.

Times
(London), 18 October 1946.

Laura, Duchess of Marlborough, 104-105.

London Evening Standard
, 17 October 1946.

Letter of the duchess of Windsor, in private collection.

Steele, 130.

Grattidge, 257.

Steele, 84-87.

Grattidge, 258.

Matthew, 279.

Information from Dr. Robert Conte to author.

Private information.

Olcott, 65.

Wright, 177.

Ibid., 187.

Bryan and Murphy 559—60. Herman Rogers died in October 1957.

Interview with David Metcalfe.

London Evening Standard
, 2 September 1947.

Private information.

Cited, Bradford,
Reluctant King
, 424, and also confirmed to me privately by one of the Duchess’s friends.

Associated Press article, dated 26 December 1947.

London Evening Standard
, 25 April 1949.

See Bloch,
File
, 89-90 for details.

Quoted, Bloch,
File
, 91—92.

Personal information.

 

Associated Press article, dated 22 February 1951.

Quoted, Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, 614. A few weeks before the Duke’s death in 1972, the Duchess told nurse Oonagh Shanley that a year after their marriage, in the summer of 1938, she had undergone a hysterectomy. Shanley’s veracity is without question, but considering the evidence to the contrary, one must wonder why Wallis would put forth a story which she must have known could be disproved in the future.

Bryan and Murphy, 496—97.

See Bloch,
File
, chap. 9, for details.

New Statesman
, 29 September 1951.

The Duke was indeed fortunate, where his family was concerned, that they appeared to take no notice of his book, for they were capable of treating other sets of royal memoirs with lasting contempt. Marion Crawford, the Scottish governess who had worked for the King and Queen for seventeen years, retired from service in 1947—the same year that her former charge, Princess Elizabeth, was married—and herself wed Maj. George Buthlay. The pair had been given a grace-and-favor house, Nottingham Cottage, Kensington Palace, along with numerous gifts from the Royal Family, including a dinner service from Queen Mary, a coffee set from Princess Elizabeth, and table lamps from Princess Margaret. Crawford, as a reward for her services as royal governess, was created a commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1949 (an interesting point, this: George VI felt Crawford’s years as his children’s governess more deserving of an honor than the four years his sister-in-law the Duchess of Windsor spent in public service in the Bahamas). Both Crawford and her husband had retired on modest pensions; needing some extra money, the former governess sold her memoirs; serialization of her book
The Little Princesses
, began in 1950. The contents were slavishly loyal and innocent, no more revealing than the authorized books written two decades earlier by Lady Cynthia Asquith, but Crawford had apparently broken a confidentiality agreement. Queen Elizabeth was horrified: within weeks, the Buthlays were ordered out of their home. Although Crawford went on to write four more books on the royals, she became a taboo subject within the Royal Family and household. When she died in 1987, not one member of the Royal Family even bothered to send flowers (Bradford,
Reluctant King
, 133).

Sulzberger, 690-91.

Morrow,
Queen Mother,
79.

London Daily Mirror,
8 February 1952.

New York Times
, 8 February 1952.

London Daily Mirror
, 8 February 1952.

Bloch,
File
, 261—62.

Ibid., 66.

Harewood, 17.

Bloch, File, 264-65.

Higham, 417.

Sotheby’s,
Public Collection
, 96-97.

Private information.

Channon, 576.

Bloch,
File
, 277.

See Bradford,
Elizabeth
, 183—84.

Bloch,
File
, 102; personal information.

 

WW, 354.

“A Love Affair With Style,” in
Town and Country
, 163.

Lawford, 183.

Cornforth,
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Paris
, 122.

Vickers,
Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
, 9.

Sotheby’s,
Public Collection
, 255.

Ibid., 270.

Personal information.

Lawford, 184.

Curtis, 280.

Lawford, 184.

Menkes,
Style
, 23.

McCall’s,
April 1961.

Personal information.

McCall’s,
May 1961.

Cornforth,
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Paris
, 124.

Ibid., 125.

Vreeland, 89.

Romanones,
Dancing
, 181.

Information from Sylvia Sidney to Allan Wilson.

Cornforth,
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Paris
, 125.

Wallis, “Our First Real Home,” in
Woman’s Home Companion
, 30.

WW, 354; Bryan and Murphy, 521.

Wallis, “Our First Real Home,” in
Woman’s Home Companion
, 33.

Becker, 315-16.

Wallis, “Our First Real Home,” in
Woman’s Home Companion
, 36.

Becker, 316.

Wallis, “Our First Real Home,” in
Woman’s Home Companion
, 30.

Ibid., 31.

Ibid., 29.

Ibid., 32.

Ibid., 33.

Pope-Hennessy,
Lonely Business
, 209.

Wallis, “Our First Real Home,” in
Woman’s Home Companion
, 36.

Ibid., 57.

Ibid., 34-5.

WW, 355.

Pope-Hennessy,
Lonely Business
, 210.

Wallis, “Our First Real Home,” in
Woman’s Home Companion
, 28.

Ibid., 27.

Interview with Linda Mortimer.

WW, 355.

David, “My Garden,” in
Life
, 62.