Prime Minister downwards: Margaret Lambert to Paul Sweet, November 13, 1953, Paul Robinson Sweet papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford.
Chapter Seventeen: Traitor King or Duped Duke?
democratic West Germany: Captured German Documents, FO 370/2371, 29 January 54, National Archives, Kew, UK.
fall into wrong hands: Captured German Documents, FO 370/2371, Top Secret 38a, National Archives, Kew, UK.
allowed to develop: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 234.
handed back to Germany: PRO, FO 2371, Top Secret 38 Green, 46 Green; CAB 128: Records of Cabinet, cited by Paul R. Sweet in “The Problem of Intervention in the Publication of Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1933–1941,” Sweet papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford, 29.
educate the German people: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 254.
waived any objections: PRO, FO 2374, 129, 143, cited by Paul R. Sweet in “The Windsor File.”
highest scholarly objectivity: Times (London), November 17, 1954.
the duke’s behaviour: Paul Sweet, “The Problem of Intervention in the Publication of Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1933–1941,” Sweet papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford, 29.
exceedingly unhappy and worried: Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII, 428.
to which I agreed: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 254, cited letter from Duke of Windsor to Sir Walter Monckton, January 18, 1955, PRO CAB 21/3776.
so wonderful a friend: Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, Friends, Enemies and Sovereigns, 139.
no mention of me shall appear therein: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 296.
family and their courtiers: David Cannadine, History in Our Time (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), 60.
stink in our nostrils: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 258.
will be a lot more: Margaret Lambert to Paul Sweet, January 31, 1956, Paul Robinson Sweet papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford.
never saw him after 1937: Associated Press, July 23, 1956.
press were quite naïve: Author interview.
they failed to do it: Times (London), August 1, 1957.
“actual” guilt: Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII, 428–29.
German or Spanish: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 429.
not convicted: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 375.
his primary concerns: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 227–28.
promote peace, not war: Documents on German Foreign Policy, no. 1862, vol. V, 8, 108869.
avoided in 1939: John Parker, King of Fools, 236–37.
a negotiated peace: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 441.
maps and plans were kept: Sarah Bradford, King George VI, 435.
anything I said: Lady Diana Cooper, Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich, 1939–1952 (London: Chatto & Windus, 2013), 379.
they’re all we have: Andrew Roberts, The Holy Fox, 393.
pragmatic sanction: Peter Viereck, Conservative Thinkers: From John Adams to Winston Churchill (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005), 50.
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Index
Abetz, Otto, ref1
Acheson, Dean, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Achilles, Wilhelm, ref1, ref2, ref3
Adeane, Michael, ref1, ref2
Adenauer, Konrad, ref1
Aird, John, ref1, ref2
Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, ref1, ref2
Alberta Ranch, ref1, ref2, ref3
Albert Victor, Prince, ref1, ref2
Alexandra of Denmark, ref1, ref2
Alford, Kenneth D., ref1
Allen, George, ref1
Allen, John, ref1
Allen, Martin, ref1, ref2
Allen, Peter, ref1
Amery, Leo, ref1
Amory, Cleveland, ref1
Arthur, Duke of Connaught, ref1
Asquith, Cynthia,
ref1, ref2
Astor, Nancy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Atkins, Vera, ref1
Attlee, Clement, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bahamas, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Baldwin, Stanley, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16
Balfour, John, ref1, ref2, ref3
Ball, Joseph, ref1
Barnes, John, ref1
Batista, Fulgencio, ref1
Battle of Britain, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Baumont, Maurice, ref1, ref2, ref3
Beaton, Cecil, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Beauclerk, Louisa, ref1
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Lord, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14
Bedaux, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Bedaux, Fern, ref1
Beecham, Thomas, ref1
Beerbohm, Max, ref1
Beigbeder y Atienza, Juan, ref1
Berle, Adolf, ref1
Bermejillo, Javier “Tiger,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Bernard, Denis, ref1
Betts, Edward C., ref1
Bevin, Ernest, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bingham, Robert Worth, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bismarck, Mona, ref1
Bismarck, Otto von, ref1, ref2
Black, Edwin, ref1
Blakeway, Denys, ref1, ref2
Bloch, Michael, ref1, ref2
Blunt, Anthony, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bracken, Brendan, ref1
Bradford, Sarah, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Brannigan, Jerome, ref1
British Military Mission, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Brittain-Jones, Rosemary, ref1
Brockhurst, Gerald, ref1
Brooks, Colin, ref1
Brown, William, ref1
Bruce, Stanley, ref1, ref2
Bryanston Court, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Buchman, Julius, ref1
Bullitt, William, ref1
Burgess, Guy, ref1, ref2, ref3
Burns, Tom, ref1
Butler, R. A., ref1
Butler, Rohan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Byrnes, James F., ref1, ref2
Cadogan, Alexander “Alec,” ref1, ref2, ref3
Cadogan, Sybil “Portia,” ref1
Camacho, Maximino, ref1
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, ref1
Canfield, Michael, ref1
Cannadine, David, ref1
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