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Chapter 39

Maxwell, 301.

Elle
, French edition, May 1986.
Private information.
Cooper,
Light of Common Day
, 161.
Bloch,
Letters
, 113.
Harper’s Bazaar
, May 1966.
WW, second photograph insert caption.
American Mercury,
June 1944.
McCall’s,
March 1961.
Menkes,
Style
, 132.
Ibid., 134.
Harper’s Bazaar
, May 1966.
Associated Press article, dated 3 June 1962.
Menkes,
Style
, 138-39.
Sotheby’s,
Private Collection
, 192-94.
Hood, 102-103.
Harper’s Bazaar
, May 1966.
Menkes,
Style
, 139.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 75.
Women’s Wear Daily
, 17 March 1967.
Time
, 8 April 1966.
Suzy Knickerbocker, in
Palm Beach Post
, 6 April 1967.
Menkes,
Style
, 138.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 75.
Sotheby’s,
Private Collection
, 124.
Ibid., 130-32.
Ibid., 120, 134.
Ibid., 150.
Ibid., 184; Hood, 103.
Personal Information.
Sotheby’s,
Private Collection
, 224-25.
Cowles,
She Made Friends and Kept Them
, 230.
Harper’s Bazaar
, May 1966.
Menkes,
The Royal Jewels
, 88.
Culme, 138.
Ibid., 176.
Menkes,
The Royal Jewels
, 85.
Bryan and Murphy, 546.
Field, 86-87.
Menkes,
The Royal Jewels
, 89.
Ibid., 93.
Ibid., 95.
Ibid., 83—4.
Associated Press article, dated 26 October 1946.
Menkes, Style, 193.
Sotheby’s,
Jewels of the Duchess of Windsor,
91.
Romanones,
Dancing
, 8.
Nadelhoffer, 230.
Menkes,
Style
, 152.
Harper’s Bazaar
, May 1966.
Lane, 89.

Chapter 40

WW, 357.

McCall’s,
October 1961.
Curtis, 281.
Sotheby’s,
Private Collection
, 298.
Curtis, 280.
Interview with Janine Metz.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 118.
Interview with Linda Mortimer.
Menkes,
Style
, 31.
Wallis, “Our First Real Home,” in
Women’s Home Companion
, 36.
Private information.
Birmingham, 269.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 73.
Ibid., 176.
Ibid., 177.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 73.
Ibid., 119.
Curtis, 281.
Ibid., 280.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 119.
Bryan and Murphy, 525.
Information from Letitia Baldridge to author.
Brian, 220.
Interview with Janine Metz.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 75.
Bry, 126.
Ibid, 131.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 75-80.
Ibid., 74.
Ibid., 75.
Ibid., 74.
Menkes,
Style
, 66.
Curtis, 280.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 74.
Ibid., 75.
Ibid., 80.
Curtis, 279.
Private information.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 80.
Pope-Hennessy
Lonely Business
, 211.
Menkes,
Style
, 13.
Private information.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 80.
McCall’s,
April 1961.
Ibid.
Curtis, 280.
McCall’s,
April 1961.
Hood, 109-110.
Menkes,
Style
, 31.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 80.
Private information.
Alan Fisher, in “The Windsors: The Sale of a Lifetime.” Channel 4 Television Production, 20 February 1998, produced by Stephen Leahy, hosted by Angela Rippon.
Maxwell, 303.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 80.
Maxwell, 301.
Vidal, 205.
Lockhart,
Diaries
, 411-12.
Romanones,
Dancing
, 161.
Bryan and Murphy, 526; private information.
Private information.

Chapter 41

Miller,
United States
, 138, 141.

Ibid., 136.
Ibid., 142.
Ibid., 136.
Murray, 65.
Wallis, “My Personal Cookbook,” in
American Weekly
, 2 November 1958.
Interview with Janine Metz.
McCall’s,
February 1961.
Vreeland, 152.
New York Times
, 6 January 1953.
Maxwell, 308—309.
American Weekly
, 18 December 1955.
Private information.
United Press article, dated 12 April 1957.
Randall, 179.
Interview with C. Z. Guest.
Braudy, 253—57.
Ibid., 209.
Private information.
McCall’s,
June 1961.
Cowles,
She Made Friends and Kept Them
, 228.
Brian, 218—19.
Private information.
Bloch,
File
, 291.
Ibid., 364.
Associated Press article, dated 4 October 1956.
Brian, 219
Birmingham, 227.
Interview with Aline, Countess of Romanones.
Private information.
Bryan and Murphy, 501.
Interview with Aline, Countess of Romanones.
Private information.
Quoted, Birmingham, 264.
Private information.
Interview with Aline, Countess of Romanones.
Bryan and Murphy, 503.
New York Times
, 7 December 1950.

Brody, 32.
Newsweek,
29 January 1951.
New York Journal-American,
31 January 1951.
New York Daily Mirror
, 19 February 1951.
New York Journal-American,
19 October 1951.
New York Journal-American,
15 October 1951.
American Weekly,
9 December 1951.
Interview with Aline, Countess of Romanones.
Private information.
Amory,
Best Cat
, 119.
Ibid., 120.
Private information.
Associated Press article, dated 5 October 1955.
Times
(London), 27 September 1956.
CBS Television Broadcast, “Person to Person,” air date 28 September 1956.
Private information.
Ibid.
Interview with Janine Metz.
Ibid.
Ibid.
New York Times
, 1 June 1966.
Interview with Janine Metz.
Associated Press article, dated 17 December 1964.
London Daily Mail
, 4 May 1965.
Women’s News Service story, dated 4 June 1967.

Chapter 42

Cited, Thornton, 301.

Associated Press article, dated 13 November 1956.
Bradford, Elizabeth, 211.
Ibid., 193.
The official souvenir programs were approved by the Office of the Lord Chamberlain in all details relating to the Royal Family.
Pope-Hennessy,
Lonely Business,
218.
McCall’s,
February 1961.
London Sunday Express
, 8 December 1963.
Interview with Aline, Countess of Romanones.
Letter of the Duchess of Windsor, in private collection.
Cathcart,
Queen Mother
, 129.
Bryan and Murphy, 528.
Private information.
Bloch,
Duchess
, 209.
See Thornton, 292, for further details.
Private information.
Ibid.
Whiting, 181.
Thornton, 295.
James, 121.
Information from the Earl of Harewood to author.
Interview with Linda Mortimer.
London Daily Express,
6 June 1967.
Quoted, Thornton, 300.
London Daily Mirror
, 6 June 1967.
Evans,
Mountbatten Years
, 88.
Ibid., 88.
Barratt, 105.
Thornton, 1.
Times
(London), 8 June 1967.
Mosley
Duchess of Windsor
, 191.
London Daily Express
, 13 February 1979.
London Daily Mail
, 8 June 1967.
Thornton, 7.
London Daily Express
, 13 February 1979.
Thornton, 7.
Times
(London), 8 June 1967;
London Daily Telegraph
, 8 June 1967.
Thomas,
Burke’s Peerage
, xxiii.
Birmingham, 289.
Talbot, 164.
Flamini, 38.

Chapter
43

Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 75.

London Daily Mail,
19 June 1961.
Private information.
Ibid.
Pryce-Jones, 110.
Interview with Janine Metz.
Beaton,
Self Portrait
, 405—407.
Cited, Ziegler, 479.
Kenneth Harris interview, BBC Television.
Harris,
The Queen
, 195.
Sotheby’s,
Private Collection
, 215.
Washington Post
, 6 April 1970.
Bush, 77.
Quoted, Ziegler,
Mountbatten,
679.
Dimbleby, 178.
Ibid., 178-79.
Bragg, 471.
Ibid., 474.
London Sunday Express
, 2 December 1972.
Bryan and Murphy, 580.
Interview with Dr. Jean Thin.
Interview with Oonagh Shanley.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Interview with Dr. Jean Thin.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 64.
Interview with Oonagh Shanley.
Private information.
Interview with Dr. Jean Thin.
Bryan and Murphy, 583.
Private information.
London Evening Standard,
30 May 1972.
Interview with Dr. Jean Thin.
Interviews with Dr. Jean Thin and Oonagh Shanley.
Private information.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 66.
Private information.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 66.
Interviews with Dr. Jean Thin and Oonagh Shanley; private information.
Private information.

Chapter 44

Interview with Oonagh Shanley.

Joan Reeder, “The End of a King’s Story,” In
Woman
, London, 5 July 1980.
Shanley, in
Hello!
58.
Interview with Oonagh Shanley.
Bryan and Murphy, 585.
Menkes,
Style
, 196.
Interview with Oonagh Shanley.
Ibid.
Times
(London), 29 May 1972.
Private information.
Pimlott, 408.
London Daily Mail
, 29 May 1972.
The Guardian
(London), 29 May 1972.
United Press International article, dated 29 May 1972.
Interview with Dr. Jean Thin.
Menkes,
Style
, 128.
Ziegler,
Shore to Shore
, 250—51.
Private information.
London Daily Express,
29 May 1972.
London Daily Mail,
29 May 1972.
London Evening News
, 29 May 1972.
Bryan and Murphy, 586-87.
Ziegler,
Shore to Shore
, 251.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity
Fair, 66.
Ziegler,
Shore to Shore,
252.
Ibid., 253.
Times
(London), 3 June 1973; and
London Daily Telegraph,
3 June 1972.
Private information.
Bryan and Murphy, 587.
Pimlott, 408—09.
Dimbleby, 179.
Romanones,
”The
Dear Romance,”
in Vanity Fair
, 66.
Pimlott, 408.
Ibid.
London Sunday Bulletin
, 4 June 1972.
Ibid.
Pimlott, 408; and personal information.
Private information.
Ziegler, Shore to Shore,
253-54.
Dimbleby, 180.
London Sunday Express,
4 June 1972.
Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates,
5 June 1972.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Sunday Times
(London), 11 June 1972.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 67.
Ibid., 67.
Ziegler,
Shore to Shore,
254.
Bryan and Murphy, 555.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,”
in Vanity Fair
, 67.
Bloch,
Duchess, 2
16.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 67.
Thornton, 330.
Ziegler,
Shore to Shore,
255.

Chapter 45

Interview with Aline, Countess of Romanones.

Bryan and Murphy, 563.
Interview with Aline, Countess of Romanones.
Martin, 12.
Interview with David Metcalfe.
Private information.
London News of the World, 3
September 1972.
Cited, Thornton, 389.
Ibid., 418.
Times (London),
30 May 1973.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair,
68.
Interview with Linda Mortimer.
Ziegler, Shore to Shore,
259.
Ibid., 259—60.
Bryan and Murphy, 596—97.
Quoted, Ziegler,
Mountbatten,
681.
Interview with Dr. Jean Thin.
Martin, 9.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 199.
Interview with Janine Metz.
Ibid.
Private information.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair
, 66.
Interview with Janine Metz.
Bryan and Murphy, 585.
Interview with Janine Metz.
Sydney Johnson died in 1990, having returned to the Windsor Villa, after Wallis’s death, in the employ of Mohammed al-Fayed.
New York Times,
10 April 1974.
Interview with Janine Metz.
Aronson, Margaret, 250.
Private information.
Martin, 496—97.
Bryan and Murphy, 566.
Interview with Dr. Jean Thin.
Vreeland, 90-91.
Bloch,
Duchess
, 222; interview with Janine Metz.
Interview with Dr. Jean Thin.
Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 209.
Interview with Dr. Jean Thin.
Anderson, 312.
Thornton, 354.
Interview with Dr. Jean Thin.
Interview with Linda Mortimer.
Romanones, “The Dear Romance,” in
Vanity Fair,
121.
Interview with Janine Metz.
Ibid.

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