The Peoples King (57 page)
89.
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p.
370
90.
Diana Vreeland,
D. V.,
p.
73
91.
Notebook kept by Lord Brownlow, Brownlow Papers, BNLW
4/4/9
/1
92.
Diana Vreeland, D. V., p.
73
93.
Diary of Violet Milner,
6
December
1936,
Violet Milner Papers, VM
5
'Tell us the facts, Mr Baldwin!'
x. Duchess of Windsor,
The Heart Has Its Reasons,
p.
253
2.
Wallis to Edward, n.d.
[3
December
1936],
in Michael Bloch (ed.),
Wallis & Edward Letters,
p.
2x5
3.
Frank Owen and R. J. Thompson,
His Was the Kingdom,
p.
97
4.
Mrs Cecilia Melville to King Edward VIII,
8
November
1936
[but most likely
8
December
1936],
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
6
5.
J. C. W. Reith, 'Broadcast over Britain', 1924, quoted in Asa Briggs,
The BBC,
p. 107
6.
Martin S. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
Vol.
5,
pp.
813-14
7.
Letter to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
8.
From Somerset to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
9.
A. Y. C. Powers to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 6
10.
Mrs Mary Bishop to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 4
11.
Alec Roylance to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
12.
Robert Hoppock to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
13.
Fairfax M. Gifford to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8
14.
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 361
15.
Report, unsigned and undated, PRO, PREM 1/466
16.
Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
pp. 70-71
17.
Telegram from Prime Minister of Britain to Prime Ministers of the Dominions, 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2
18.
Copy of the broadcast proposed by the King, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2, file 7
19.
For the Cabinet's discussion of the issue, see the minutes for 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII
20.
Quoted in Iain Macleod,
Neville Chamberlain,
p. 198
21.
Stanley Baldwin to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, PRO, PREM 1/451
22.
Cabinet minutes, 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII
23.
Memorandum from 'GFD' to Sir Horace Wilson, 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2
24.
E. A. Hughes,
The Royal Naval College Dartmouth,
p. 74
25.
A. J. P. Taylor,
English History 1914-1945,
p. 402
26.
Rhoda Anderson to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 2
27.
Nancy Mitford to Evelyn Waugh, 22 December 1949, in Charlotte Mosley (ed.),
The Letters of Nancy Mitford,
p. 293
28.
Quoted in Hugo Vickers,
Cecil Beaton,
p. 194
29.
Telegram from Prime Minister of Britain to Dominion Prime Ministers, 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2
30.
British Movietone News newsreel,
14
December
1936
31.
Letter to King Edward VIII,
6
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes
1-6
32.
Hazel King Tillman to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
33.
Margaret Dickinson and Sarah Street,
Cinema and State,
p. 8
34.
Edith Londonderry,
Retrospect,
pp.
251-4
35.
Emma Taylor to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December
1936],
RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box
4
36.
Olive May Neal to King Edward VIII,
4
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box
2
37.
Pamela Deverell to King Edward VIII,
4
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box
4
38.
Winston Churchill,
The Second World War,
Vol. 1, p.
218
39.
Diary of John George Harmer,
4
December
1936,
Acc.
6220/B0X 9
40.
Hansard,
4
December
1936
41.
'A lover of Church & State' to Mrs Baldwin,
4
December
1936,
Lucy Baldwin Papers
42.
Robert Graves and Alan Hodge,
The Long Week-end,
p.
363
43.
Mrs Greta [?]Clench to King Edward VIII,
4
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
4
44.
Dennis Wheatley to King Edward VIII,
6
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1
-6
45.
From South Chingford, Essex, to King Edward VIII,
4
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
4
46.
Margaret Chalmers to King Edward VIII,
5
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box
3
47.
Letter from London to King Edward VIII,
5
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1
-6
48.
James Fenton Webster to King Edward VIII,
4
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
4
49.
Gwladys M. Alexander-Williams to King Edward VIII,
4
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
5
50.
A. Davies to King Edward VIII,
5
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
51.
Diary entry for
15
December
1935,
quoted in Celia Lee,
Jean, Lady Hamilton,
p.
258
52.
E. J. Rendle to King Edward VIII,
6
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
53.
William Williamson to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6
54.
Letter from Trieste, Italy, to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD Boxes 1-6
55.
R. D. Walton to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 2
56.
Entry for 4 December 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
57.
E. J. Rendle to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
58.
'The King and a crisis. Points at issue',
The Times
, 4 December 1936
59.
Entry for 5 December 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
60.
Robert Skidelsky,/ofc«
Maynard Keynes,
p. 628
61.
Quoted in
Ibid.
62.
From Streatham Hill, London, to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9
63.
Vera Brittain,
Testament of Experience,
p. 161
64.
Diary entry for 9 December 1936,
The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays,
p. 279
65.
Diary entry for 4 December, quoted in J. G. Lockhart,
Cosmo Gordon Lang,
p. 402; emphasis added
66.
James Agate, Diary entry for 4 December 1936,
Ego
3, p. 57
67.
Lucy Baldwin, diary entry for 5 December 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers
68.
Diary entry, 5 December 1936,
Parliament and Politics . . . The Headlam Diaries,
p. 101
69.
Evelyn Waugh,
Diaries,
4-8 December 1936, p. 416
70.
S. C. Howard [PJFripp to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
71.
James Agate, diary entry for 5 December 1936,
Ego
3, pp. 57-8
72.
Ibid.,
p. 58
73.
George Bernard Shaw, 'The King, the Constitution and the Lady',
Evening Standard,
5 December 1936
74.
Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan to Lady Mary K. Trevelyan, 8 December 1936, Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan Papers, CPT Ex 130/100
75.
Diary entry, 5 December 1936,
Parliament and Politics .. . The Headlam Diaries,
p. 101
76.
From Selsdon, Surrey, to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
77.
Charles Nelson Stewart to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
78.
From Cheltenham to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
79.
From Colne, Lancashire, to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
80.
A. J. Knights to Winston Churchill,
6
December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-B
81.
5 December 1935,
Daily Mirror
82.
5 December 1936,
Daily Express
83.
Telegram from Zetland to Linlithgow, 7 December 1936, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.15
84.
Diary entry, 7 December 1936,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf,
pp. 39-40
85.
'King and country - An anxious week-end',
The Times,
7 December 1936
86.
Daily Mirror,
5 December 1936
87.
Ibid.
88.
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD Box 10
89.
Olwen Herbert-Jones to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/ GVI/ABD, Box 3
90.
J. Reeve to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
91.
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
92.
W. Wain to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
93.
Mrs Gerald Hervey to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 6
1.
Lord Beaverbrook to Roy W. Howard, 8 December 1936, quoted in Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
p. 122
2.
Diary entry for 7 December,
Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon,
p. 94
3.
Diary entry for 6 December,
Ibid.,
p. 93
4.
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10; Mrs R. H. Wheeler to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
5.
Letter from London to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
6.
Diary entry,
7
December
1936,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf,
pp.
39-40
7.
Telegram from Zetland to Linlithgow,
7
December
1936,
Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F
/iz5.i5
8.
Diary of Violet Milner,
3
December
1936,
Violet Milner Papers, VM
5
9.
Winston Churchill, 'The abdication crisis: Mr Baldwin's shrewdness',
Yorkshire Post,
30
April
1948
10.
Lord Citrine,
Men and Work,
p.
328