The Peoples King (58 page)

11.
    
Quoted in David Cannadine,
In Churchill's Shadow,
p.
63

12.
    
Mary Soames (ed.),
Speaking for Themselves,
p.
423

13.
    
Hugo Vickers (ed.),
Cocktails & Laughter,
p.
68

14.
   
Martin S. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
Vol.
5,
p.
811

15.
    
Quoted in
Ibid.,
p. 811

16.
   
Robin Birkenhead,
Churchill 1914-1949,
p.
74

17.
    
Martin S. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
Vol.
5,
p.
812

18.
   
Hansard,
3
December
1936

19.
   
Evening Standard,
3
December
1936

20.
   
Quoted in Philip Guedalla,
The Hundredth Year,
p.
276

21.
    
Malcolm Muggeridge,
The Thirties,
p.
284

22.
    
Martin S. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
Vol.
5,
p.
814

23.
    
Norah Thompson and D. Edwards to Winston Churchill,
6
December
1936,
Churchill Papers, CHAR
2/598
-B

24.
   
F. S. Harvey to Winston Churchill,
12
December
1936,
Churchill Papers, CHAR
2/598
-B

25.
   
Phyllis Bowes to Winston Churchill,
6
December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR
2/597
-A

26.
    
Miss M. D. Boston to Winston Churchill,
7
December
1936,
Churchill Papers, CHAR
2/597
-A

27.
   
A. P. Hamilton to Winston Churchill,
5
December
1936,
Churchill Papers, CHAR
2/597
-B

28.
    
Oswald Gregson to Winston Churchill,
5
December
1936,
Churchill Papers, CHAR
2/597
-B

29.
   
Quoted in Martin S. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
Vol.
5,
p.
814

30.
   
'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at
10
Downing Street', n.d. [late December
1936
or early
1937],
CAB
127/157

31.
     
Neville Chamberlain to Stanley Baldwin,
5
December 1936, PRO, CAB
21/4100/2

32.
    
Martin S. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
Vol.
5,
p.
814

33.
    
Ibid.,
p. 815

34.
   
Ibid.,
p. 817

35.
    
Winston Churchill to Stanley Baldwin, 5 December 1936, PRO, PREM 1/448

36.
   
Letter from Menston, near Leeds, to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6

37.
   
J. Evans to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1

38.
    
'A Loyal Subject' to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6

39.
   
Cabinet minutes for 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII

40.
   
Sydney Morning Herald,
7 December 1936

41.
     
Earl de la Warr to Stanley Baldwin, 4 December 1936, PRO, PREM 1/448

42.
   
The Times,
5 December 1936

43.
    
Winston Churchill to Geoffrey Dawson, 9 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fols 52-3

44.
   
Quoted in Iain Macleod,
Neville Chamberlain,
p. 198

45.
   
Thomas Jones,
A Diary with Letters,
p. 291

46.
    
'ACD' to Geoffrey Dawson, 6 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fol. 34

47.
   
Quoted in Philip Ziegler,
King Edward
VIII,
p. 275

48.
   
Christopher Hibbert,
Edward: The Uncrowned King,
p. 15

49.
   
Cabinet minutes for 6 December 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII

50.
   
Cabinet minutes for 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII

51.
    
Hilda Runciman diary, 11 December 1936, Hilda Runciman Papers, WR Add 10, 21 March 1936 to 26 January 1937

52.
    
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

53.
   
John Ridley to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3

54.
   
Robert Graves and Alan Hodge,
The Long Week-end,
p. 364

55.
    
Walton Newbold to Winston Churchill, 6 December 1936, in Martin S. Gilbert,
Companion to Winston S. Churchill,
Vol. 5, p. 460

56.
   
Kingsley Martin,
The Magic of Monarchy,
p. 77

57.
    
Robert Skidelsky,
Oswald Mosley,
p. 329

58.
   
Diary of Anthony Heap, 3 December 1936, Acc. 2243/9/1

59.
   
Kingsley Martin,
The Magic of Monarchy,
p. 77

60.
   
Telegram to King Edward VIII, n December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box ro

61.
    
Telegrams to King Edward VIII, December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

62.
    
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

63.
   
Saturday Review,
12 December 1936

64.
   
Kingsley Martin,
The Magic of Monarchy,
pp. 78-9

65.
   
Ulick Alexander to
The Times,
24 December 1965

66.
   
Frank Owen and R. J. Thompson,
His Was the Kingdom,
p. 69

67.
   
H. Montgomery Hyde,
The Londonderrys,
p. 238

68.
   
Mary Finch to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1

69.
   
Diary of David Strain, 7 December 1936, PRONI, D285/3/16

70.
   
Letter from Sunderland to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6

71.
    
'One of
your
country men' to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3

72.
    
Hansard,
8 December 1936

73.
    
Telegram from Cloudesley Brereton to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

74.
    
Letter from Paris to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6

75.
   
Letter from London to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6

76.
   
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 385

77.
    
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

78.
   
M. J. Davis to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6

79.
    
Annie E. Mead to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 3

80.
  
F. M. Toovey to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1

81.
   
Herbert Barnes to Winston Churchill, 6 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-A

82.
     
'Public opinion' to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5

83.
   
W. K. Leslie and H. H. Bland to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3

84.
   
C. Bacon to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 2

85.
   
Letter from London to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6

86.
   
J. A. Godley[?J to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 3

87.
    
Letter from Brighton to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6

88.
   
H. Stanley Jevons to Winston Churchill, 8 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-B

89.
   
Arthur Thurbon to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6

90.
  
Marjorie Deans to Winston Churchill, 5 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-A

91.
    
A. Jackson to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4

92.
   
John T. Drew to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4

93.
    
D. Howard Edwards to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4

94.
   
J. H. Squire to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 3

95.
    
W. W. Hitching to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5

96.
    
Herbert M. A. Richards to King Edward VIII, December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6

97.
   
Martin S. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
Vol. 5, p. 820

98.
   
Vera Brittain,
Testament of Experience,
p. 161

99.
   
Diary of Florence Turtle, 8 December 1936

100.
    
Diary entry, 7 December 1936,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf,
pp. 39-40

101.
     
M. [?]Bland to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 2

102.
    
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 385

103.
      
Gaston L. D. de Vere to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3

104.
    
Edith Londonderry,
Retrospect,
p. 255

105.
    
Durham County Advertiser,
20 November 1936, pp. 3, 7

106.
     
Evelyn Webb Summer to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6

107.
     
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

108.
      
Letter from London to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
109.
Joan Sexton to King Edward VIII,
4
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
4

no. J. G. Lockhart,
Cosmo Gordon Lang,
p.
403

IO

'Don't abdicate!'

1.
   
Wallis Simpson to Edward VIII, n.d.
[6
December
1936],
in Michael Bloch (ed.),
Wallis & Edward Letters,
pp.
219-21

2.
  
Entry for
28
January
1937,
in Susan Lowndes (ed.),
Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes,
p.
153

3.
  
Report, unsigned and undated, PRO, PREM 1
/466

4.
  
'Note of interview with Mr Simpson', by the King's Proctor,
24
February
1937,
PRO, TS
22
/1
/2

5.
  
'Crowded benches',
The Times,
8
December
1936

6.
  
Diary of Edgar Procter, 6 December 1936

7.
   
Miss E. M. Small to King Edward VIII,
9
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 6

8.
  
Diary of Violet Milner, 7 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5

9.
  
Hansard,
7
December
1936

10.
   
'Crowded benches',
The Times,
8
December
1936

11.
    
Beaverbrook learned this from the Lloyd George Papers: see Lord Beaver­brook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
p.
78,
footnote
2

12.
    
G. M. Young,
Stanley Baldwin,
p.
242

13.
    
J. R. O'Brien to Winston Churchill,
8
December
1936,
Churchill Papers, CHAR
2/597
-A

14.
     
Francis N. Beaufort-Palmer to Winston Churchill,
8
December
1936,
Churchill Papers, CHAR
2/597
-A

15.
    
Philip Guedalla,
The Hundredth Year,
p.
282

16.
   
Duchess of Windsor,
The Heart Has Its Reasons,
p. 217

17.
    
Philip Ziegler,
King Edward
VIII,
p.
269

18.
   
Quoted in
Ibid.,
p.
271

19.
   
Francis Hugo Meynell, abdication journal, 112A-B

20.
    
Alan Turing to his mother, 11 December
[1936],
Alan Turing Papers, AMT/K/1
/50

21.
    
Gerald Bullett to Winston Churchill,
8
December
1936,
Churchill Papers, CHAR
2/597
-A

22.
    
Ibid.

23.
   
Janet Trevelyan to George M. Trevelyan, 6 December 1936, Mary Moor­man Papers, 2/2/9

24.
   
B. Abbott to King Edward VIII, 4 December 193 6, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3

25.
    
Quoted in Diana Mosley,
The Duchess of Windsor,
p. 116

26.
   
Frances Lloyd George,
The Years That Are Past,
p. 258

27.
     
Quoted in J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George and the abdication of Edward VIII', p. 94.

28.
   
Frances Lloyd George,
The Years That Are Past,
p. 258

29.
    
Blanche Dugdale, diary entry for 8 December 1936, quoted in Martin Gilbert,
Companion to Winston S. Churchill,
Vol. 5, p. 466

30.
    
Violet Bonham Carter to Geoffrey Dawson, 9 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fols 48-9

31.
    
Robin Birkenhead,
Churchill 1914-1940,
p. 78

32.
    
Winston Churchill,
The Second World War,
Vol. 1, p. 172

33.
     
Winston Churchill to Geoffrey Dawson, 9 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fols 52-3

34.
   
John Gunther,
Inside Europe,
p. 257

35.
    
Diary entry for 9 December 1936,
The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays,
p. 277

36.
    
Mrs Nellie Bagg to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 5

37.
    
Eileen Lane, Kay Dick and F. D. Lingham Burley to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5

38.
     
Miss Edith Lowndes to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5

39.
   
Telegram from Stanley Baldwin to the Prime Ministers of the Dominions, 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2

40.
   
'The abdication of His Majesty King Edward VIII, Correspondence with the Dominions, Part 1', PRO, DO 114/81

41.
    
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

42.
  
Telegram from Constitutional Association of New South Wales to Winston Churchill, 7 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/599

43.
   
George Fairbanks, 'Australia and the abdication crisis', p. 301

44.
    
Telegram from Australian High Commissioner to Dominions Office, 9 December 1936, PRO, HO 144/21070

45.
    
Sydney Morning Herald,
10 December 1936 (quoted in Compton Mac­kenzie,
The Windsor Tapestry,
pp. 494-9)

46.
   
George Fairbanks, 'Australia and the abdication crisis', p. 302

47.
   
Australian Parliamentary Debates,
Vol. 152, 11 December 1936

48.
   
'Opinion in the Dominions',
The Times,
4 December 1936

49.
   
Copy of statements by Reuters to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box xo

50.
   
Ottawa Citizen,
8 December 1936

51.
     
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

52.
    
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

53.
    
I hid.

54.
    
Letter from North Vancouver to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6

55.
     
Letter from Toronto to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9

56.
    
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

57.
   
Wallis Simpson to Duke of Windsor, 21 [January 1937], in Michael Bloch (ed.),
Wallis & Edward Letters,
p. 248