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Before Wallis

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by Rachel Trethewey


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  Hart-Davis, Duff (ed.), In Royal Service: Letters and Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles from 1920 to 1936 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989).

  ——, King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006).

  Hatch, Alden, The Mountbattens (London: W.H. Allen, 1966).

  James, Edward, Swans Reflecting Elephants: My Early Years (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982).

  Lees-Milne, James, The Life of Reginald, 2nd Viscount Esher: The Enigmatic Edwardian (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1986).

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  Lockhart, Sir Robert Bruce, Friends, Foes and Foreigners (London: Putnam, 1957).

  Lovell, Mary S., Straight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham (London: Abacus, 2014).

  ——, The Riviera Set (London: Little, Brown, 2016).

  Lowndes, Susan (ed.), Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes 1911–1947 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1971).

  MacDonald, Lyn, The Roses of No Man’s Land: Nurses on the Western Front (London: Penguin Books, 2013).

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  ——, The Celebrity Circus (London: W.H. Allen, 1964).

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  ——, Once upon a Time: A True Story by Gloria Vanderbilt (London: Chatto and Windus, 1985).

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  Vanderbilt, Gloria and Palma Wayne, Without Prejudice (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1936).

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  ——, Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor (London: Arrow, 2012).

  Wainwright, Robert, Sheila: The Australian Beauty Who Bewitched British Society (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2014).

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  ——, Mountbatten: The Official Biography (London: Book Club Associates, 1985).

  ——, The Diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten 1920–1922: Tours with the Prince of Wales (London: HarperCollins, 1987).

  ——, King Edward VIII: The Official Biography (London: Fontana, 1991).

  Rosemary and her mother Millicent in a car. (Sutherland Collection/Staffordshire Archive)

  Rosemary, ‘the girl of girls’ in 1913. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Rosemary in a nurse’s uniform (staring straight ahead) with the Prince of Wales at her mother’s hospital in France, 1917. (Sutherland Collection/Staffordshire Archive)

  Eric, Lord Ednam, in uniform; by Bassano. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

  Eric Ednam (looking down) with the Prince of Wales and Prince George in Jamaica, 1931. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Freda’s wedding to William Dudley Ward, 1913. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  William Dudley Ward caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair. (Mary Evans Picture Library)

  Freda posing in a floaty dress in 1916. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Freda at th
e time she first met the Prince of Wales. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  The Prince of Wales in his cabin on HMS Renown, 1920. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Freda at the height of her affair with the Prince of Wales. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  The Prince of Wales in golfing clothes. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Elegance at the Embassy Club by Mundo. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Sketch by Fish of the Charleston dance at the Embassy Club. (Mary Evans/Jazz Age Club Collection)

  Freda with her two daughters Penelope (Pempie) and Angela (Angie). (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Freda, the devoted mother with her two girls. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Freda with Brendan Bracken and her sister Vera in 1936. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Bobby, the Marquis de Casa Maury; by Bassano. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

  Freda on a ship with Lord Mountbatten and Bobby de Casa Maury (on the right-hand side). (Ben Laycock Collection)

  Freda looking chic in her 50s. (Ben Laycock Collection)

  Freda sunbathing in Malta. (Ben Laycock Collection)

  The Prince of Wales out hunting. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Audrey Dudley Coats on the cover of The Tatler, 1925. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Thelma with her baby son Tony. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Thelma, Lady Furness, on the front cover of The Tatler, 1930. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  The Prince of Wales shortly before he began his affair with Thelma. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  The Prince of Wales meeting coal miners in 1929. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  The Prince of Wales on safari in Kenya, 1930. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  A stylised image of Thelma by Autori in 1931. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  A caricature of Prince Aly Khan by Mel in 1932. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Identical twins Gloria Vanderbilt and Thelma Furness. (© William Hustler and Georgina Hustler/National Portrait Gallery, London)

  Thelma’s sisters Consuelo Thaw and Gloria Vanderbilt on the French Riviera. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Prince Aly Khan with his father the Aga Khan at the races in 1932. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Thelma socialising with friends. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  The Prince of Wales and Wallis Simpson during the royal cruise down the Dalmatian Coast in 1936. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Edward and Wallis at Ascot in June 1936. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

  Wallis Simpson at Quaglino’s in April 1936. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)

 

 

 


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