Free The Duchess Of Windsor by Greg King

416.
    Quoted in Donaldson, 275.
    Rhodes, 417.
    Birkenhead, 125.
    Ibid., 137.
    Attlee, 123.
    David, 343.
    WW, 240—41.
    Sunday Times (London), 24 April 1966.
    Taylor, 370.
    Beaverbrook, 50—51.
    Channon, 109-110.
    Nicolson, Diaries , 280.
    Macleod, 197.
    Montgomery-Hyde, Baldwin , 568.
    David, 346.
    Channon, 110.
    Nicolson, Diaries , 280.
    Montgomery-Hyde, Baldwin , 477.
    Ziegler, 256.
    Leighton, 378.
    Ibid., 378.
    New York Herald Tribune , 28 November 1936.
    Associated Press article, 17 December 1936.
    Baltimore News-Post , 9 December 1936.
    WW, 242.
    Colville, 716.
    WW, 242.
    Chapter 20
     
    WW, 242.
     
    Ibid., 242.
    Ibid., 242—43.
    David, 340.
    WW, 243.
    Ibid., 243.
    Bloch, Letters , 254—55.
    Times (London), 3 December 1936.
    Freemantle, 178.
    David, 353.
    Quoted in Young, Baldwin , 137.
    WW, 244.
    Washington Star , 17 December 1936.
    Ibid.
    WW, 244.
    Ibid., 244.
    Ibid., 244.
    Ibid., 244—45.
    Ibid., 245.
    Crawford, Crawford Papers , 573.
    Channon, 114.
    Lockhart, Diaries , 359.
    Times (London) 3 December 1936.
    London Daily Telegraph , 3 December 1936.
    London Daily Express , 3 December 1936.
    London Daily Mail , 3 December 1936.
    WW, 245.
    Ibid., 246.
    Ibid., 246.
    Birkenhead, 141.
    WW, 246—47.
    Ziegler, 269.
    WW, 248.
    Ibid., 248.
    Ibid., 249-50.
    Ibid., 250.
    Ibid., 250-51.
    Ibid., 252.
    Ibid., 252.
    Vreeland, 97—98.
    WW, 252—53.
    Ibid., 253-54.
    Martin, 252.
    Vreeland, 98.
    WW, 256.
    Ibid., 257-58.
    Ibid., 259.
    Ibid., 290.
    Chapter 21
     
    WW, 261.
     
    Bloch, Letters, 261—62.
    Churchill, Gathering Storm , 218.
    Young, 239—40.
    Time , 7 November 1936.
    Quoted, De-la-Noy, 35—36.
    David, 365.
    Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI , 285.
    Channon, 117.
    Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates , 4 December 1936.
    Beaverbrook, 78.
    Martin, 296.
    Taylor, 370-71.
    Interestingly, almost precisely this same path had been taken by the mistress of the present Prince of Wales, who, trying to ingratiate herself with a largely hostile public in anticipation of a larger role in the Prince’s life, took on a visible role in a charity and planned to make appearances with the Prince before this was cut short by the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
    Birkenhead, 145.
    David, 379.
    Nicolson, Diaries , 282-83.
    David, 381—82.
    Ibid., 385-86.
    Crawford, Crawford Papers , 573.
    New York Times , 6 December 1936.
    London Daily Herald , 6 December 1936.
    Literary Digest , 12 December 1936.
    New York Times , 7 December 1936.
    Channon, 120.
    Information from Dame Barbara Cartland to author.
    Cross, 164—65.
    Time , 14 December 1936.
    Chapter 22
     
    Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 7 December 1936.
     
    Nicolson, Diaries , 282.
    Times (London), 8 December 1936.
    Nicolson, Diaries , 282.
    Cited, Bradford, Reluctant King , 192.
    Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, 285.
    Times (London), 8 December 1936.
    Birkenhead, 149.
    Ibid., 149-50.
    Ibid., 150.
    Cited, Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary , 579.
    Quoted, Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary , 579.
    Daily Telegraph (London), 21 April 1984.
    WW, 262.
    Birkenhead, 147.
    WW, 263.
    Washington Herald , 8 December 1936.
    Birkenhead, 146.
    WW, 264.
    Ibid., 264—65.
    Ibid., 266.
    Ibid., 267.
    Ibid., 268.
    Middlemas and Barnes, 1013.
    WW, 267—68.
    New York Times , 22 January 1939.
    Private information.
    WW, 267.
    Ibid., 269.
    Nicolson, Diaries , 285.
    Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates , 10 December 1936.
    Nicolson, Diaries , 285.
    Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates , 10 December 1936.
    Nicolson, Diaries , 285-86.
    Bloch, File , 44—45.
    Bloch, File , 46. This figure is equivalent to roughly $40 million or £25 million in 1998 rates.
    Bloch, File , 47.
    Birkenhead, 151—52.
    Sitwell, 76.
    New York Times , 12 December 1936.
    WW, 269.
    David, 412.
    Vreeland, 99.
    Chapter 23
     
    Illustrated London News , 19 December 1936.
     
    Blackwood, 3.
    Nicolson, Diaries , 283—84.
    National Archives, Washington, D.C.: U.S. State Department file 841.001, VIII/77, 11 December 1936.
    Times (London), 23 December