The Peoples King (55 page)

50.
   
Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
pp. 36-8

51.
    
Ibid.,
p. 46

52.
    
Cabinet minutes, 27 November 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII, 69(36)

53.
    
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 331

54.
   
Enclosure III, 'Secret. Copy of Memorandum by Parliamentary Counsel', 5 November 1936, with Warren Fisher to Neville Chamberlain, 7 November 1936, PRO, PREM 1/463

55.
   
The Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 332

56.
   
Ramsay MacDonald diary, 16 November 1936, PRO, PRO 30/69, 1753

57.
    
Helen Hardinge,
Loyal to Three Kings,
p. 139

58.
   
Violet Milner, diary entry for 19 November 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5

59.
   
Diary entry, 18 November 1936,
Parliametjt and Politics. . . The Headlam Diaries,
pp. 98-9

60.
   
Lucy Baldwin diary entry, 16 November 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers

61.
   
Lucy Baldwin to Edith Londonderry, 23 November 1936, PRONI, D3099/ 3/15/8

62.
   
Linlithgow to Dawson, 17 November 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fol. 14

63.
   
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 334

64.
   
Ibid.,
p. 335

65.
   
Hansard,
16 November 1936

66.
   
Quoted in Thomas H. Eliot,
Recollections of the New Deal,
p. 91

67.
    
Alpheus Geer to King Edward VIII, 25 November 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 4

68.
   
Quoted in Winston Churchill,
The Second World War,
Vol. 1, p. 170

69.
  
Winston Churchill,
The Second World War,
Vol. I, pp. 170-71

70.
   
Leo Amery, diary entry for 12 November 1936,
The Empire at Bay,
p. 430

71.
    
Leader,
Daily Mail,
23 November 1936

72.
   
Janet Flanner,
An American in Paris,
pp. 11-12

73.
    
Bernard Shaw to Beatrice Webb, 4 September 1936, in Dan H. Laurence (ed.),
Bernard Shaw,
pp. 441-2

74.
  
John Buchan to Edith Londonderry, 18 September 1936, PRON1, D3099/ 3/16/55

75.
    
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 277

76.
   
Quoted in Philip Ziegler,
King Edward
VIII,
p. 272

77.
    
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 336

6

'The Battle for the Throne'

1.
 
Quoted in Philip Ziegler,
King Edward
VIII,
p. 302

2.
 
Quoted in Samuel Hopkins Adams,
Alexander Woollcott,
p. 272

3.
 
Duchess of Windsor,
The Heart Has Its Reasons,
p. 249

4.
 
Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 27 November 1936, in Mary Soames (ed.),
Speaking for Themselves,
pp. 418-19

5.
 
Entry for 23 November 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55

6.
A. J. P. Taylor,
Beaverbrook,
p. 10

7.
 
Enclosure III, 'Secret. Copy of Memorandum by Parliamentary Counsel', 5 November 1936, with Warren Fisher to Neville Chamberlain, 7 November 1936, PRO, PREM 1/463

8.
Clement Attlee,
As It Happened,
p. 86

9.
Robin Birkenhead,
Churchill 1
924-1940, p. 75

10.
 
Zetland to Linlithgow, 27 November 1936, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/ F/125.139

11.
  
David Cannadine,
In Churchill's Shadow,
p. 66

12.
 
Nancy Dugdale diary, p. 16, Nancy Dugdale Papers

13.
  
Entry for 24 November 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary. Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 5 5

14.
 
Alexander Hardinge to Stanley Baldwin, 22 November 1936, PRO, PREM 1/448

15.
 
Thomas Jones,
A Diary with Letters,
p. 288

16.
 
For example, Sir Maurice George to Sir John Simon, 24 November 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2

17.
 
James Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary,
p. 577

18.
 
Quoted in John W. Wheeler-Bennett,
King George
VI,
p. 283

19.
 
Hilda Runciman diary, 2 March 1936, Hilda Runciman Papers, WR Add 10, 21 May 193 5 to 20 March 1936

20.
 
Duke of Windsor,
The Crown and the People,
p. 42

21.
  
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 258

22.
 
Helen Hardinge to Alec Hardinge, 27 June 1922, Hardinge Papers, U2117, C 2/188

23.
 
Kirsty McLeod,
Battle Royal,
p. 23

24.
 
Helen Hardinge,
Loyal to Three Kings,
p. 41

25.
 
George V to Prince Albert, 26 April 1923, quoted from the Royal Archives by Philip Ziegler,
King Edward
VIII,
p. 171

26.
 
Duff Cooper,
Old Men Forget,
p. 201

27.
 
Ibid.

28.
 
The Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 343

29.
 
Ibid.

30.
 
Diary entry for 28 November 1936,
Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon,
p. 86

31.
 
Nicholas Mansergh,
Survey of British Commonwealth Affairs,
p. 41

32.
 
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 345

33.
 
Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
p.
56

34.
 
Hansard,
26 November 1936; emphasis added

35.
 
Ibid.

36.
 
David Kirkwood,
My Life of Revolt,
pp. 259-60

37.
 
New Statesman and Nation,
5 December 1936, p. 885

38.
John Rowland, Welsh Board of Health, to Sir Kingsley Wood, 21 October 1936, PRO, MH 58/309; emphasis added

39.
 
Seaham Weekly News,
20 November 1936

40.
 
Quoted in Philip Ziegler,
Edward
VIII,
p. 215

41.
  
BBC Broadcast, 6 May 1926, quoted in G. M. Young,
Stanley Baldwin,
p. 117

42.
 
Stella Margetson,
The Long Party,
pp. 51-2

43.
 
Wal Hannington,
Never on Our Knees,
p. 258

44.
 
Ibid.,
p. 263

45.
  
Diary entry for 10 November 1936,
Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon,
p. 78

46.
 
Editorial,
Daily Telegraph,
29 October 1936

47.
 
John A. Owen and Carolyn Jacob,
The Unconquerable Spirit,
p. 21

48.
 
Lord Wigram to Linlithgow, 5 June 1936, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/ F/125.1

49.
 
Compton Mackenzie,
The Windsor Tapestry,
p.
203

50.
   
M. Watcyn-Williams, 'Communism in South Wales',
Spectator,
18
September
1936,
pp.
451-2

51.
 
Idris Cox,
The People Can Save South Wales!,
p.
5;
emphasis added

52.
 
South Wales Slave Act Special,
January 1935, front page, Merthyr Tydfil documents; capitals in original

53.
 
Martin S. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
Vol.
5,
p.
813

54.
 
Cabinet minutes,
27
November
1936,
PRO, CAB
23/86
Vol. LIII,
69(36)

55.
 
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p.
346

56.
 
Telegram 'from Prime Minister [of Britain] for Prime Minister [of the Dominions]',
28
November
1936,
PRO, DO
121/32

57.
 
'The abdication of His Majesty King Edward VIII, Correspondence with the Dominions, Part 1', PRO, DO
114
/81

58.
 
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p.
347

59.
 
Telegram 'from Prime Minister [of Britain] for Prime Minister [of the Dominions]',
28
November
1936,
PRO, DO
121/32

60.
 
Entry for
29
November
1936,
Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55

61.
 
Ibid.

62.
 
Oliver Warner,
Admiral of the Fleet,
p.
69

63.
 
Quoted from
Time
magazine in the
Daily Mirror,
5
December
1936

64.
Duchess of Windsor,
The Heart Has Its Reasons,
p.
25
1

65.
 
Quoted in Philip Ziegler,
King Edward
VIII,
pp.
276-7

66.
Wallis Simpson to Sibyl Colefax, n.d.
[30
November
1936],
Sibyl Colefax Papers, MS Eng c
3272,
fols 11-12

67.
 
Wallis Simpson to 'Foxy' Gwynne, n.d.
[30
November
1936],
in Michael Bloch (ed.),
Wallis & Edward Letters,
pp.
213-14

68.
Duchess of Windsor,
The Heart Has Its Reasons,
p.
252

69.
Report of meeting of Ministers,
2
December
1936,
PRO, CAB
127/156

70.
 
'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at
10
Downing Street', n.d. [late December
1936
or early
1937],
CAB
127/157

71.
  
Cabinet minutes,
2
December
1936,
PRO, CAB
23/86
Vol. LIII,
69(36)

72.
  
Ramsay MacDonald, diary entry for
2
December
1936,
Ramsay Mac- Donald Papers, PRO, PRO
30/69, 1753

73.
 
Statement by Lord Baldwin in
1947
to J. G. Lockhart, quoted in
Cosmo Gordon Lang,
p.
404

74.
 
Telegram 'for Prime Minister [of Britain| from Prime Minister [of New Zealand],
2
December
1936,
PRO, DO
121/35

75.
 
Governor-General of New Zealand to the Dominions Office,
2
December
1936,
PRO, CAB 21/4
100/2