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19 18 January 1922. The Tatler.
20 Louis Mountbatten to the Marchioness of Milford Haven. 28 December 1919. Mountbatten Papers. Southampton University. MS62-MB6-M60.
21 ‘Lady Rider Thrown.’ 24 January 1925. Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser.
22 ‘From Hunting to Shop-Keeping.’ 29 August 1925. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.
23 ‘Echoes from Town.’ 14 April 1925. Nottingham Evening Post.
24 Bryan and Murphy. The Windsor Story. 90.
25 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 10 March 1923. Max Reed Papers.
26 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 18 July 1923. Max Reed Papers.
27 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 6 April 1923. Max Reed Papers.
28 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 10 April 1923. Max Reed Papers.
29 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 30 May 1923. Max Reed Papers.
30 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 2 August 1923. Max Reed Papers.
31 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 31 August 1923. Max Reed Papers.
32 ‘Our London Letter.’ 31 August 1923. Dundee Courier.
33 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 31 August 1923. Max Reed Papers.
34 For the full story of the Maggy Alibert affair see Andrew Rose. The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder. London: Coronet, 2013.
35 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 10 September 1923. Max Reed Papers.
36 Ziegler. King Edward VIII. 148.
37 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 13 September 1923. Max Reed Papers
38 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 22 November 1923. Max Reed Papers.
39 Diana Cooper. Autobiography. London: Michael Russell, 1979. 348.
40 Ibid. 349.
41 Ibid.
42 24 July 1924. In John Julius Norwich (ed.). The Duff Cooper Diaries 1915–1951. London: Phoenix, 2006. 201.
43 Ziegler. King Edward VIII. 162.
44 Hart-Davis (ed.). In Royal Service. 17.
45 Joey Legh to Sarah Legh. 20 July 1925. In Alfred Shaughnessy (ed.). Sarah: The Letters and Diaries of a Courtier’s Wife 1906–1936. London: Peter Owen, 1989. 139.
46 Joey Legh to Sarah Legh. 20 July 1925. 3 August 1925. In ibid. 139–40.
47 Duff Hart-Davis. King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006. 109.
48 Michael Herbert to Freda Dudley Ward. 11 November 1924. Martha Milinaric Papers.
49 Michael Herbert to Freda Dudley Ward. 10 December 1924. Martha Milinaric Papers.
50 Bryan and Murphy. The Windsor Story. 86.
51 Michael Herbert to Freda Dudley Ward. December 1924. Martha Milinaric Papers.
52 Michael Herbert to Lady Victor Paget. No date. Martha Milinaric Papers.
53 18 February 1925. The Tatler.
54 Interview with Dr Rosie Collins.
55 6 February 1925. Nottingham Journal.
56 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 23 August 1923. Max Reed Papers.
57 Duke of Windsor. A King’s Story. 198–9.
58 Ziegler. King Edward VIII. 173.
59 Mabell, Countess of Airlie. Thatched with Gold: The Memoirs of Mabell, Countess of Airlie. London: Hutchinson, 1962. 167, 198.
60 Christopher Warwick. George and Marina: Duke and Duchess of Kent. London: Albert Bridge Books, 2016. 45.
61 Duke of Windsor. A King’s Story. 199.
62 Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill. 22 October 1927. In Mary Soames (ed.). Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. London: Doubleday, 1998. 313–14.
63 16 July 1925. Dundee Courier.
64 22 July 1925. The Sketch.
65 7 July 1925. Dundee Courier.
66 ‘Echoes from Town.’ 24 May 1926. Nottingham Evening Post.
67 Lady Angela St Clair-Erskine. Fore and Aft. London: Jarrolds, 1932. 37.
68 ‘Perthshire Laird Dead.’ 8 August 1927. Dundee Courier.
69 11 April 1927. Dundee Evening Telegraph.
70 ‘Sir Stuart Coats’ Daughter-in-law.’ 12 April 1928. Dundee Evening Telegraph.
71 ‘Hunting With the Prince.’ 8 November 1927. The Scotsman.
72 Bryan and Murphy. The Windsor Story. 91.
73 10 March 1928. Aberdeen Press and Journal.
74 Michael Herbert to Freda Dudley Ward. 5 January 1927. Martha Milinaric Papers.
75 Michael Herbert to Freda Dudley Ward. 6 September 1928. Martha Milinaric Papers.
76 Michael Herbert to Freda Dudley Ward. 13 November 1928. Martha Milinaric Papers.
77 25 February 1929. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer.
78 3 February 1929. Port Arthur News.
79 Michael Herbert to Freda Dudley Ward. 25 January 1929. Martha Milinaric Papers.
80 6 September 1929. In Kenneth Young (ed.). The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. Vol. 1: 1915–1938. London: Macmillan, 1973. 106.
81 Hart-Davis. King’s Counsellor. 104.
82 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. No date. Max Reed Papers.
83 Hart-Davis (ed.). In Royal Service. 74.
84 Ziegler. King Edward VIII. 193.
85 Hart-Davis (ed.). In Royal Service. 74–6.
86 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 28 September 1928. Max Reed Papers.
87 James Fox. White Mischief. London: Vintage, 1998. 2.
88 Ibid. 49.
89 Isak Dinesen to Ingeborg Dinesen. 11 November 1928. Isak Dinesen. Letters from Africa 1914–1931: The Private Story Behind Karen Blixen’s Great Memoir Out of Africa. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981. 387.
90 Isak Dinesen to Ingeborg Dinesen. 30 September 1928. Ibid. 384.
91 Fox. White Mischief. 26, 34.
92 Ibid. 34.
93 Ibid. 25–7.
94 Mary S. Lowell. Straight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham. London: Abacus, 2014. 87.
95 Hart-Davis. King’s Counsellor. 105.
96 Ziegler. King Edward VIII. 190–3.
97 Hart-Davis. King’s Counsellor. xii.
98 Ibid. 105.
99 Warwick. George and Marina. 57.
100 Ibid. 64.
101 Ibid. 64–5.
102 Ziegler. King Edward VIII. 200.
103 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. No date. Max Reed Papers.
104 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. No date. Max Reed Papers.
105 Michael Herbert to Freda Dudley Ward. No date. Martha Milinaric Papers.
106 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. No date. Max Reed Papers.
Chapter 9
1 Gloria Vanderbilt and Thelma Furness. Double Exposure: A Twin Autobiography. London: Frederick Muller, 1958. 178.
2 Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and Palma Wayne. Without Prejudice. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1936. 14.
3 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 50.
4 Ibid. 3.
5 Vanderbilt and Wayne. Without Prejudice. 75.
6 Ibid. 63.
7 Gloria Vanderbilt. Woman to Woman. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1979. 177.
8 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 17–18.
9 Ibid. 21–3.
10 Ibid. 34–9.
11 Barbara Goldsmith. Little Gloria … Happy at Last. London: Pan Books, 1981. 42.
12 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 57.
13 Lucy Moore. Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties. London: Atlantic Books, 2008.11.
14 Donald L. Miller. Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015. 69–71, 115–18.
15 Vanderbilt and Wayne. Without Prejudice. 78.
16 Moore. Anything Goes. 65.
17 Ibid. 65–7.
18 Goldsmith. Little Gloria … Happy at Last. 43.
19 Miller. Supr
eme City. 349.
20 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 60.
21 Quoted in ibid. 121–2.
22 Ibid. 59.
23 Ibid. 71.
24 Ibid. 75–6.
25 Moore. Anything Goes. 97.
26 Ibid. 80.
27 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 118.
28 Moore. Anything Goes. 82.
29 Eileen Whitfield. Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood. Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 218.
30 Moore. Anything Goes. 95.
31 Whitfield. Pickford. 228.
32 Moore. Anything Goes. 82.
33 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 117.
34 Peter Ackroyd. Charlie Chaplin. London: Vintage Books, 2015. 138–9.
35 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 117.
36 Mary S. Lovell. Straight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham. London: Abacus, 2014. 129.
37 Barbara Cartland. We Danced All Night. London: Arrow Books, 1977. 309.
38 ‘Death of Lady Furness. Sudden Relapse on a Yacht off Cadiz.’ 28 February 1921. Sheffield Independent.
39 Lovell. Straight on Till Morning. 129.
40 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 127.
41 Ibid. 133.
42 Goldsmith. Little Gloria … Happy at Last. 97.
43 Ibid. 97.
44 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 168.
45 Vanderbilt and Wayne. Without Prejudice. 144.
46 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 191.
47 Pat Cavendish O’Neill. A Lion in the Bedroom. Johannesburg and Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2004. 40–1.
48 Ibid. 41.
49 Ibid. 40.
50 Ibid. 45.
51 Vanderbilt and Wayne. Without Prejudice. 174–5.
52 Frances Donaldson. Child of the Twenties. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. 132–3.
53 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 224.
54 Gloria Vanderbilt. Once Upon a Time: A True Story By Gloria Vanderbilt. London: Chatto and Windus, 1985. 28.
55 Frances Donaldson. Child of the Twenties. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. 132–3.
56 Ackroyd. Charlie Chaplin. 138.
57 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 219–20.
58 Ibid. 222.
59 Ibid. 223–4.
60 Ralph G. Martin. The Woman He Loved: The Story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973. 147.
61 ‘The Letters of Evelyn.’ 15 December 1926. The Tatler.
62 ‘Melton Hunt Ball.’ 13 January 1928. Nottingham Journal.
63 Cavendish O’Neill. A Lion in the Bedroom. 73–4.
64 Richard Fawkes. ‘Obituary: Viscount Furness.’ 11 May 1995. The Independent.
65 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 226.
66 Ibid. 226–7.
67 Ibid. 261.
68 Cartland. We Danced All Night. 337.
69 Martin. The Woman He Loved. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973. 147.
70 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 261.
71 Anna Sebba. That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2011. 84.
72 Goldsmith. Little Gloria … Happy at Last. 138–9.
73 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 262.
74 Lovell. Straight on Till Morning. 82.
75 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 265–6.
76 Ibid. 269.
77 Ibid. 265.
78 Ibid. 267–8.
79 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 5 February 1930. Max Reed Papers.
80 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 31 February 1930. Max Reed Papers.
81 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. 29 May 1930. Max Reed Papers.
82 Robert Wainwright. Sheila: The Australian Beauty Who Bewitched British Society. Australia: Allen and Unwin, 2014. 272.
83 Anne Edwards. Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor. London: Rowan and Littlefield, 2015. 362.
84 Frances Donaldson. Edward VIII. London: Futura Publications, 1976. 109.
85 12 September 1931. Kenneth Young (ed.). The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. Vol. 1: 1915–1938. London: Macmillan, 1973. 185.
86 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 271.
87 8 October 1931. In Young (ed.). The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockart. Vol. 1: 1915–1938. 190.
88 Anna Thomasson. A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Blue-Stocking and a Bright Young Thing. Basingstoke: Pan Macmillan, 2015. Accessed via Google Books.
89 24 November 1931. Portsmouth Evening News.
90 It seems that rather than being a real girlfriend of Duddie’s, as in so many divorce cases at the time, Lilian was employed to provide the necessary evidence of infidelity. It is possible Miss Gallifent was an actress. In 1916 Nellie Gallifent was a ‘dainty comedienne’ and singer of sentimental songs, who performed at Blackpool pier. Perhaps she could not make it as an entertainer so she used her acting skills in other ways. There is no further record of Lilian in Duddie’s life and Miss Gallifent went on to marry Ralph Altson in Kensington three years later.
91 Sebba. That Woman. 139.
92 ‘Divorce’. 19 June 1930. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer.
93 Michael Herbert to Freda Dudley Ward. No date. Martha Milinaric Papers.
94 Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward. No date. Max Reed Papers.
95 Freda Dudley Ward to Duff Cooper. 2 October 1932. Duff Cooper Papers. Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge University. DUFC 12021 (4).
96 ‘Mr Michael Herbert’s £500,000 Will.’ 6 January 1933. Warminster and Westbury Journal.
97 23 June 1939. Western Gazette.
98 Philip Ziegler. King Edward VIII: The Official Biography. London: Fontana, 1991. 199.
99 Ibid. 206.
100 Andrew Morton. 17 Carnations: The Windsors, the Nazis and the Cover Up. London: Michael O’Mara Books, 2015. 28.
101 Robert Vacha (ed.). The Kaiser’s Daughter: Memoirs of HRH Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Brunswick and Luneberg, Princess of Prussia. London: W.H. Allen, 1977. 188.
102 Memorandum by Lord Wigram. 3 March 1932. RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/019/269. The Royal Archives.
103 Memorandum by Lord Wigram. 4 March 1932. RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/019/270. The Royal Archives.
104 Ziegler. King Edward VIII. 198.
105 Goldsmith. Little Gloria … Happy at Last. 144.
106 8 October 1931. In Young (ed.). The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockart. Vol. 1: 1915–1938. 190.
107 Ziegler. King Edward VIII. 219.
108 Martin. The Woman He Loved. 159.
109 Robert Rhodes James (ed.). ‘Chips’: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 50.
110 J. Bryan III and Charles J.V. Murphy. The Windsor Story. London: Granada Publishing, 1981. 125.
111 ‘Biarritz Asides.’ 6 September 1933. The Sketch.
112 Ibid.
113 ‘Biarritz Asides.’ 13 September 1933. The Sketch.
114 ‘Prince of Wales Lourdes Visit.’ 27 November 1931. Edinburgh Evening News.
115 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 273.
116 Sebba. That Woman. 94.
117 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 282.
118 Goldsmith. Little Gloria … Happy at Last.141.
119 The Duchess of Windsor. The Heart Has its Reasons: The Story of the Abdication. London: Tandem, 1975. 191–2.
120 Ibid. 194–5.
121 Vanderbilt and Wayne. Without Prejudice. 176.
122 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 269.
123 Bryan and Murphy. The Windsor Story. 103.
124 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 269.
125 Ibid. 279.
126 Goldsmith. Little Gloria … Happy at Last. 137.
127 Bryan and Murphy. The Windsor Story. 109.
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1 The Duchess of Windsor. The Heart Has its Reasons: The Story of the Abdication. London: Tandem, 1975. 153, 169.
2 Gloria Vanderbilt and Thelma Furness. Double Exposure: A Twin Autobiography. London: Frederick Muller, 1958. 274.
3 Ibid. 274–5.
4 The Duke of Windsor. A King’s Story: The Memoirs of HRH the Duke of Windsor. London: Pan Books, 1957. 248.
5 Philip Ziegler. King Edward VIII: The Official Biography. London: Fontana, 1991. 227.
6 Duchess of Windsor. The Heart Has its Reasons. 176–7.
7 Wallis Simpson to Aunt Bessie. 13 January 1931. In Michael Bloch (ed.). Wallis and Edward. Letters 1931–37: The Intimate Correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 24.
8 Duchess of Windsor. The Heart Has its Reasons. 177–84.
9 Ziegler. King Edward VIII. 227.
10 Duchess of Windsor. The Heart Has its Reasons. 177–84.
11 Barbara Goldsmith. Little Gloria … Happy at Last. London: Pan Books, 1981. 149.
12 ‘The Prince and I.’ 20 June 1954. American Weekly. Quoted in ibid. 149.
13 Duchess of Windsor. The Heart Has its Reasons. 185–6.
14 Ibid. 187–8.
15 Helen Hardinge. Loyal to Three Kings: A Memoir of Alec Hardinge, Private Secretary to the Sovereign 1920–1943. London: William Kimber, 1967. 73.
16 Duchess of Windsor. The Heart Has its Reasons. 204.
17 Anne Sebba. That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2011. 93–4.
18 Wallis Simpson to Aunt Bessie. 29 January 1933. In Bloch (ed.). Wallis and Edward. Letters 1931–37. 65.
19 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 274.
20 Duchess of Windsor. The Heart Has its Reasons. 200.
21 Sebba. That Woman. 93.
22 ‘Popular Rendez-Vous and their Patrons.’ 8 January 1935. The Bystander.
23 Duchess of Windsor. The Heart Has its Reasons. 202.
24 ‘Viscount Furness Divorced.’ 23 January 1933. Gloucestershire Echo.
25 Pat Cavendish O’Neill. A Lion in the Bedroom. Johannesburg and Cape Town: Jonathan Ball, 2004. 74.
26 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 286.
27 Duke of Windsor. A King’s Story. 251.
28 Ibid. 251.
29 Vanderbilt and Furness. Double Exposure. 286.
30 ‘Cholly Knickerbocker.’ September 1937. The American. Quoted in Goldsmith. Little Gloria … Happy at Last. 236.
31 Barclay Beckman. 31 March 1946. The Mirror. Quoted in ibid. 142.