The Peoples King (70 page)

Erw 16 Ministry of Labour 14 Ministry of Labour Home Training

Centre, Gwaelodygarth 7 Mitchell, Frank 104 Mitford, Nancy 158 Mobberley Child Welfare Centre,

Cheshire 214
Modern Times
(film) 50 Monckton, Walter 26, 37-8, 85, 94,
95,
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9, 145, 148, 173,
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209, 210, 216, 231, 257, 267,

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75
Monmouthshire 2, 4,12, 57

County Health Department 7 Montgomery Hyde, H. 63
Montreal Gazette
203 Moore, George 45 morganatic marriage, history and

nature 112
see also under
Baldwin, Stanley;

Chamberlain, Neville; Churchill, Sir Winston; Cooper, Alfred Duff; Dawson, Geoffrey; Edward VIII; Hardinge, Major Alexander; Mary, Queen; Simpson, Wallis
Morning Post
19, 59, 61, 85-6,

129, 136, 139, 147 Mortimer, Penelope 81 Mosley, Diana (nee Mitford) 28, 52 Mosley, Sir Oswald 28, 179, 180 Mount Stewart, Northern Ireland 189

Mountain Ash 7-8 Mountbatten, Edwina, Lady 39, 97,

99,
²
6I
Mountbatten, Iris, Lady 253 Mountbatten, Louis, Lord

(Edward's cousin) 69, 97, 99 Lambe's best friend 5 on the chemistry between Edward

and Wallis 26-7 bisexual affairs 39 and the royal crisis 126 aide-de-campe to George VI 263 Movietone News 47

Amen: The End of a Tragic Chapter in British Imperial History
254 Muggeridge, Malcolm 135, 174 Muslims 206

Mussolini, Benito 24, 108, 109,

122,189 Mydrim, India 208

Nahlin
42, 43, 85, 86, 136, 273 Nantyglo, Wales 16 National Council of Social Service 5,
57

National Government 15-16, 49,

59,
 
60, 63, 121, 123,132, 179, 189

Nazi Party/Nazism
45, 189, 196, 265

New Deal
12, 24, 50, 106, 108, 236
New Statesman and Nation
15, 40,

60,
 
120

New York
82, 96,150, 159, 242

Stock Exchange collapse
(1929) 3
New York
Daily Mirror
8 5
New York Journal
8 5
New York Post
143
New Yorker
242

New Zealand
117,118, 124, 130,

180, 201-2, 228
New Zealand High Commission,

London 141 Newbold, Walter
179
Newcastle upon Tyne
66
News Chronicle
60, 136, 138-9
Newspaper Proprietors' Association
86, hi

Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia
109,

164, 229
Nicolson, Harold
41, 144-5,
ⁱ⁶
9 Nonconformity
77, 138-9, 259
North Wales: Edward visits 56 North-East England
65-7
Nuremberg rallies 45

Observer
197
Octavians
279
Ogilvy, Bruce
30

Olympic Games, Winter (Munich,

1936) 189
Opening of Parliament
(3
November

1936) 229
Oriental Post
207
Osborne Naval College
157
Othello
(Shakespeare)
9

Ottawa Citizen
203
Owen, Frank
137, 182
Oxford
255

Oxford and Asquith, Lady
see

Margot Asquith Oxford University
26, 51, 52, 61,
94, IO
²
-, 121

Palestine
241
Paramount
47

Paris
78, 84, 217, 218, 274, 279,

280, 282
Paris
Daily Mail
159
Parliamentary Counsel,

Memorandum by
92, 103
Passchendaele, Battle of
64, 225
Pathe Gazette newsreels 1,4, 12,
56
The King Abdicates
219
The King Visits South Wales
47
Patiala State
208

Paul, Prince, of Yugoslavia
37, 81, 262

Peacock, Sir Edward
210
Peking
30, 31,42, 150
Penrhiwceiber
7

Penrhiwceiber British Legion and United Services Club and Institute
225
Pentrebach Preparatory Training

Centre, Rhondda Valley 6 Penygarn housing estate, Pontypool

14, 142
People, The
magazine 39 Peter Robinson department store,

London
213, 230
Philip, Prince, HRH The Duke of

Edinburgh
280
Pilkin
225
Pitman, C. E. 121 Polesden Lacey, Surrey 45

Pollitt, Harry 97, 179 Pontypool 14, 15 Poona 208 Portland 51, 89 Portsmouth 58, 253 poverty, the poor 49, 50, 57-8, 66-7, 77, 120, 122, 123, 163, 183, 215, 222, 224-7, 231, 236-7, 249, 251, 271-2, 280 Press Association 74, 134 Preston, Kiki Whitney 39 Pretoria 205 Privy Council 255
Punch
172 Puritanism 259

Queen Mary
15, 2x3 Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End, London 170

Raffray, Mary Kirk 82-3, 85, 277 Rawalpindi 208 Reading, Lord 31 'Recall to Religion' campaign 77, 103

Red Guards 229

Reith, Sir John 153, 156-7, 235,

237, 256
Renown,
HMS 30 Representation of the People (Equal

Franchise) Act (1928) 235 Republican Government (Spain) 108 Rhedey, Claudine, Countess 112 Rhiw Park, Abertillery 17 Rhondda, Lady 146 Rhondda Valley 6 Rhymney, Wales 4, 17 Rhymney Iron Company 17 Ribbentrop, Joachim von 45, 189, 195-6

Ritz hotel, London 234

Robeson, Paul 9, 39

Rogers, Herman 31, 42, 99, 150,

152, 212, 265, 275 Rogers, Katherine 31, 42, 99, 150,

152, 265 Roman Catholicism 77 Roosevelt, Franklin D. 50, 90,106,

108, 153, 154-5
Rosaura
25-6, 42, 273 Rosebery, Earl and Countess of 99 Rosslyn, Earl of 78 Rothermere, Lord 86, xn-12, 136,

147, 200 Rothschild, Baron Eugene de 253, 268, 275

Rothschild, Kitty, Baroness de 253,268, 275 Rothschild family 144 Rouen 151

Rowland, John 12, 59, 120 Royal Albert Hall, London 51, 160

Royal Family 19, 60, 61, 161, 254, 260, 275, 276, 278, 279, 280 Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park 219, 253

Royal Marriages Act (1772) 68, 161 Rubinstein, Artur 44 Runciman, Hilda 15, 70, 78, 115, 179

Runciman, Walter 15, 93, 224 Russell, Bertrand 65, 256 Russia

Five-Year Plan 108 Edward's attitude towards 109 trade unions 121 and Stay in Strikes 122 Russian Revolution (1917) 164, 229 Rutland, Duke of 42

Sagan, Princesse de 79 St George's Chapel, Windsor 37, 2.81-2

St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh 214 St James's Palace, London 36, 98,

139, 240 St Johns, Adela 281 St Paul's Cathedral, London 281 St Peter's Church, Blaenavon 13 Salisbury, Lord 76, 173, 256 Sandringham House, Norfolk 5,81,

115

'Sandringham Time' 72

Sassoon, Sir Philip 73

Saturday Review
180-81, 255

Savage, Michael 130, 201

Savile Club, London 243

Scanlon, Gladys Kemp 97

Schiaparelli, Elsa 43

Schuster, Sir Claude 236

Scotland 3, 147

scouting movement 243

Seaham Weekly News
120

Second World War
see
World War II

Sefton, Eari of 42, 43

Shanghai 30

Shaw, George Bernard 108,165, 228, 250, 256 'The King, the Constitution and the Lady' 167-8 Shearer, Norma 159 Simon, Sir John 48, 74, 76, 93, 98, 105, 124, 209, 274, 275, 276

Simpson, (Bessie) Wallis (previously Spencer; nee Warfield), later Duchess of Windsor 63, 114 appearance 21, 27, 29, 31-2, 40,

81, 159, 214, 268 background 20-21, 28

marriage to Earl Winfield Spencer

2
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32-, 33
marriage to Ernest Simpson 22-3,

33, 34-5
meets Edward 23 Edward's devotion to her 18-19,

26, 46 a secret affair 19-20 private language 26 travels alone 30-31 death of her mother 33-4 care of Edward 35-6 influence on Edward 37-8 objectionable to the English upper

class 40-42 presented at court (1931) 42
Nahlin
voyage 42, 86, 136 regarded as a passport to the King

45-6, 196 divorce petition 74, 75-6, 78, 83-7, 188, 194, 216, 217, 266-7, 2.70, 273, 274 marriage to Ernest deteriorates 81-2

Lady Londonderry's intervention 87-8

Elizabeth, Duchess of York, snubs
88

Hardinge urges Edward to send

her away 90-91, 93 under surveillance by Special

Branch 95, 96-7 alleged relationship with Guy

Trundle 96-7, 98-9 and the morganatic marriage plan

111—12, 153-6, 191 receives hostile letters 127 moves to Fort Belvedere 128 stays in the south of France during the crisis 149-52, 174

Simpson, (Bessie) Wallis -
cont.
compared with Henrietta Maria 171-2

and Joachim von Ribbentrop

195-6 Lloyd George on 199 offers to renounce Edward

211-14, 216, 219-20 Wilson's view of her character

2-15

told of Edward's irrevocable

decision 218 listens to Edward's farewell

broadcast 240, 241 anxiety about Edward's future 241

gratitude to Lord Brownlow 262 jealous of Edward's hostess 268 marries Edward (3 June 1937)

2-74-5
her status 276, 277 rest of life spent in exile 277-8 and Edward's death 282 her death (24 April 1986) 281,

282
personality
charm 42, 88 forthrightness 27-8 independence 30-31, 32, 85 intelligence 31-2 tact 88

warm-heartedness 33
The Heart Has Its Reasons
25,

2-7,98, 195

Simpson, Ernest Aldrich 20, 23, 33, 34-5, 69, 98, 266 appearance 22 shipping firm 22 marries Wallis 22 long talk with Edward 80

marriage to Wallis deteriorates 81-2

and Mary Kirk Raffray 82-3,

273, 277 Ipswich divorce hearing 85 under surveillance 95, 96, 98 offer to Baldwin 192
Simpson
v.
Simpson
85, 273 Sinclair, Sir Archibald 113, 176,

209-10 Singapore 254 Sitwell, Sir Osbert 263-4

'Rat Week' 263, 264 Six Bells colliery, Garn-yr-Erw 16 Smiths Newspapers 202 Snatchwood Junior Instruction

Centre, Pontypool 15 Social Credit Reformers 180 'Society' 61, 71, 87, 126, 189, 196, 260, 262-3, 279
see also
Establisment Somme, Battle of the (1916) 14,

52-3, 56, 58 South Africa 117, 124, 130, 180, 201

South America 23 South Wales

Edward's tour (1936) 1-9,

n-17, 47-8, 57-64, 94, 100,
105, 106, 109, hi, 119, 120, 146, 159, 170, 185, 186, 189, 210, 225, 227, 248-51, 254, 271-2, 276, 281 seen as a flashpoint 123
South Wales Argus
11, 58, 59, 72,
73

South Wales Miners' Federation 17 South Wales National Unemployed

Workers Movement 123
South Wales Slave Act Special
123

Soviet Union
see
Russia Spain: Russian influences 122 Spanish Civil War 108, 124 Special Areas 48, 60, 62, 65-6, 108,

119-22 Special Areas Commission 66 Special Areas (Development and Improvement) Act (1934) 12, 106, 121

Special Branch, Metropolitan Police

95,97,98,
126
Spectator
4, 8, 123 Spencer, Lieutenant Earl Winfield

21-2, 30, 32, 33, 266 Spring Hill Branch, British Legion 224

Sri Lanka
see
Ceylon Stalin, Joseph 24, 108 Stamfordham, Lord 229 Stanley, Oliver 171, 263
Star
138, 201
Star of India
205 State Opening of Parliament (3

November 1936) 71
Statesman
newspaper 205 Statute of Westminster (1931) 118,
245

Stevenson, Frances 198, 199 Stewart, Malcolm 12,
66,
106, 162, 186

Stopes, Marie 136 Stornoway House, St James's,

London 153, 209 Storrier, D., Inspector 274 Strathmore, Earl of 40
Sunday Express
101 Sutherland, Duchess of 99, 258, 263

Sutherland, Duke of 78, 87, 99, 258, 263

Swazi National Council 205 Sydney 49, 202

Sydney Morning Herald
176, 202

Tablet
(Catholic newspaper) 181,

234
Tasmania 251 Taylor, A. J. P. 113, 157 Tennyson, Hon. Lionel 121 Thackeray, William Makepeace:

Vanity Fair 42 This Week
69

Thomas, Sir Godfrey 115, 156, 202, 263

Thompson, R. J. 137, 182
Time and Tide
249
Times, The
4, 40, 61, 62, 85, 91, 105, 136, 137, 144, 147,148, 164, 165, 169, 177, 193, 194, 203, 205, 213, 220, 245-7, 256

Times of Ceylon
208 Toe H 55 Tours 274

trade unions, Russian 121 Trades Disputes Act (1927) 121 Travellers Club, London 61,
66
Treasury 164 Tredegar, Viscount 4 Tredegar House, Monmouthshire 4 Tree, Ronald 239 Trevelyan, Sir Charles Philips 168 Trevelyan, George M. 197, 256, 263 Trevelyan, Janet 197-8 Trinidad Citizens' League 244 Trinity College, Cambridge 5 Trundle, Guy Marcus 96-7, 98 Turing, Alan 20, 143, 196-7, 248,

258 Turkey 43

Tyne Improvement Commission,

Newcastle 65 Tyneside 3,65

unemployment, the unemployed 3, 5,6, 7, 9,12-13,15,17, 28,
47,49,
5°> 57-8, 59,62,63, 66-7, 106, 119, 122,123, 159, 164, 168, 183, 185, 210, 224-5,
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Unemployment Assistance Board 3, 122

United Australia Party 203 United French Polishers' London

Society 60 United States of America

exploitation of Black people 9 New Deal 12, 24, 106, 108, 236 British upper classes' view of Americans in Britain 40-41 view of the royal crisis 89, 90 Roosevelt elected (1936) 106 Edward seeks an alliance 109 cinema 159

rumours about the significance of

the South Wales visit 251 Friends of the Duke of Windsor in America 279 Universal Films 47, 137 Universal Negro Improvement

Association 244 universal suffrage 103 Usk n, r8

Vanderbilt, Consuelo 39 Vanderbilt, Gloria 24 Vansittart, Lord and Lady 44 Victoria, Queen 162 Victoria Station, London 81

Vienna 43, 271, 274

Villa Mauresque 264

Vimy Ridge, France 56

Viola, Queen of the Gypsies 244

Virginia 41

Vogue 32

Voice
newspaper 251 Voluntary Air Detachment 64 Vreeland, Diana 27, 33, 253, 261 Vreeland, Reed 261

Wales

disestablishment of the Anglican

Church 77
see also
North Wales; South Wales

Wales, Prince of
see
Edward VIII, King

Wall Street Crash (1929) 3, 44

Wallace, Barbara 258

Wallace, Euan 258

Walshe, Mr 131

Ward, Freda Dudley 38, 39, 52

Ward, William Dudley 38

Warfield, Alice (Wallis's mother) 21,

33-4
Warfield family 21 Warwick, Countess of 79 Waterlow, Sir Sydney 43 Waugh, Evelyn 166 Wedgwood, Colonel Josiah 192 Wells, Geoffrey H. ('Geoffrey West')

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, 255, 260 Wells, H. G. 61, 142, 165, 256 Welsh Board of Health 12, 59, 120 Welsh Guards 231

Old Comrades 14 Welsh Land Settlement Society 5 Welsh Miners' Relief Fund 9 West Cumberland 3