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55 inscribed ‘To you’: Angulo, Peking Sun, Shanghai Moon, p. 27
55 ‘old aristocratic families’: Diana Hutc:ing Sun
55 ‘very taken by her’: ibid.
56 and botched abortion: Charles Higham, Mrs Simpson: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor, Sidgwick & Jackson 1998, p. 50, quoting Mrs Miles. See also Ray Moseley, Mussolini’s Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano, New Haven, Yale University Press 2000, pp. 9 – 10
Chapter 4: Wallis on the Lookout
57 ‘a strange city’: HHR p. 121
58 ‘her last lap’: Martin, The Woman He Loved, p. 85
58 ‘with equal satisfaction’: ibid., p. 124
58 ‘call inferior decorating’: ibid., p. 122
60 ‘and not remarry’: Baltimore News, 28 Oct. 1927
60 sister Buckie, furious: NLD
61 by Jacques’ syphilis: Kirk Hollingsworth, Conversation with author, 1 Nov. 2009
61 ‘marry for money’: NLD
61 ‘provided with money’: NLD
62 ‘a man’s world’: HHR p. 128
62 ‘finally, to everything’: Cleveland Amory, Who Killed Society?, New York, Harper & Brothers 1960, p. 238
63 his own expense: Bernard Susser, The Jews of South-West England: The Rise and Decline of their Medieval and Modern Communities, University of Exeter Press 1993
66 ‘looking after me’: Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor, 15 July 1928, p. 27
67 ‘in a flash’: HHR p. 139
67 ‘seem so important’: Bloch, Letters, p. 11
67 ‘at Victoria Station’: HHR p. 139
67 ‘since early childhood’: ibid.
67 ‘to the core’: Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/1, Churchill Archives
68 ‘the human spirit’: HHR p. 146
68 ‘a second sex’: ibid., p. 143
68 ‘vacantly before me’: ibid., p. 144
69 ‘in England live’: Mary Kirk Raffray (hereafter MKR), TOMS, p. 5
70 ‘and many pillows’: MKR to Mrs Henry Child Kirk, 2 June 1931, TOMS, p. 1
70 ‘her feminine interests’ HHR p. 159
70 ‘right through one’: ibid., p. 149
72 ‘and dinner parties’: ibid., p. 160
72 ‘wiHHdely appreciated knack’: ibid., p. 161
72 ‘wants to leave’: MKR to her mother, 7 June 1931, TOMS, p. 15
72 ‘bathroom with her’: NLD
Chapter 5: Wallis on the Sidelines
73 ‘mind made up’: W to AB, 13 Jan. 1931, Bloch, Letters, p. 24
73 ‘his cultural horizons’: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII: The Official Biography, Collins 1990, p. 41
74 ‘his own thoughts’: ibid.
74 ‘a brute to his children’: James Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, vol. II: 1930 – 1968, Chatto & Windus 1981, pp. 230 and 235
74 ‘allowed to fight!!’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 57
75 ‘of his inadequacy’: ibid., p. 58
75 and exercise less: see LFP, p. xvii
75 ‘am guilty of’: EP to King George V, 5 Sept. 1920, Royal Archives, quoted in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 109
75 ‘unfair on Papa’: ibid., p. 75
76 ‘killed or wounded’: Alan Clark (ed.), A Good Innings: The Private Papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham, John Murray 1974, pp. 138 – 9
76 ‘long to angel!!’: EP to FDW, 26 March 1918, LFP p. 10
77 ‘fed up they are’: EP to FDW, 22 Dec. 1918, LFP p. 147
77 ‘a national disaster’: EP to FDW, 26 Oct. 1919, LFP p. 267
78 ‘and sounds Bolshevik’: EP to FDW, LFP pp. 346 – 7; Daily Telegraph, 6 June 2001
78 ‘can’t live together’: EP to FDW, 7 Nov. 1919, LFP p. 276
78 ‘feel like “resigning”!!’: EP to FDW, 24 Oct. 1919, LFP p. 266
78 ‘work for him’: EP to FDW, 18 Oct. 1921, LFP p. 262
78 ‘beloved little mummie!!’ EP to FDW, 14 Oct. 1919, LFP p. 259
79 ‘ancestry as poor Edward P’: Alan Lascelles to Nigel Nicolson, 5 Sept. 1965, Lascelles Papers, Lasl 8/8 Churchill Archives
79 ‘get away with it” ’: ibid.
79 ‘“lock him up”’: ibid.
80 ‘once a week’: ibid.
80 ‘the next morning’: interview with Sarah Bradford, Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/1, Churchill Archives
80 ‘for his role’: Duff Hart-Davis (ed.), Introduction to In Royal Service: The Letters and Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles 1an kquote>, Hamish Hamilton 1989, p. xi
81 ‘conventions of polite society’: Hector Bolitho, King Edward VIII: His Life and Reign, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1937, p. 75
82 ‘of one’s employer’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 110
82 ‘the couple concerned’: EP to Queen Mary, quoted in ibid., p. 171
82 ‘a flirtatious nature’: Wake, Sisters of Fortune, p. 208
82 ‘cos it’ll destroy me’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 173, 20 Feb. 1924, Broadlands Papers S 395
83 ‘mostly about trivialities’: King, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 96
83 ‘for this drama’: Sir Henry Channon, Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, ed. Robert Rhodes James, Penguin 1967, p. 66; Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 223 for supplying the name
83 ‘coloured symphony toy’: Lady Diana Cooper, The Light of Common Day, Rupert Hart-Davis 1959, p. 162
84 ‘weekends, I suppose’: HRH The Duke of Windsor (hereafter DoW), A King’s Story, Cassell 1951, p. 237
84 ‘voyage would end’: Gloria Vanderbilt and Thelma, Lady Furness, Double Exposure: A Twin Autobiography, New York, David McKay 1958, p. 266
85 ‘frighteningly high’: HHR p. 171
85 ‘and utter naturalness’: ibid., p. 169
85 ‘but bad manners’: Vanderbilt and Furness, Double Exposure, p. 275
85 ‘I am right’: HHR p. 165
86 ‘an informal way’: W to AB, 13 Jan. 1931, Bloch, Letters, p. 24
86 ‘of them again’: W to AB, 5 Feb. 1931, Bloch, Letters, p. 28
86 ‘frowzy dressed town’: W to AB, 24 Jan. 1932, Bloch, Letters, p. 48
86 ‘without the cold’: W to AB, 16 April 1932, Bloch, Letters, p. 32
87 ‘talked until 2 o’clock’: MKR to Mrs H. C. Kirk, 2 June 1931, TOMS, p. 4
88 ‘for it anyway’: ibid.
88 ‘such an extravagance’: HHR p. 174
88 ‘imitations but effective’: W to AB, n.d., Bloch, Letters, p. 35
88 ‘the women look ghastly’: HHR p. 175
89 ‘can never marry her’: MKR diary, private archive
89 ‘can’t help me’: W to AB, 16 April 1931, Bloch, Letters, p. 31
89 ‘“out of danger, Buckie”’: NLD
Chapter 6: Wallis in Control
91 ‘went very well’: HHR p. 190
91 ‘an unsavoury nature’: Nancy Dugdale diary
92 ‘billhook and whistling’: HHR p. 201
92 ‘ping pong balls’: ibid., p. 183
92 ‘to say what’: W to AB, 4 Feb. 1932, Bloch, Letters, p. 50
93 ‘could not resist’: W to AB, 26 Feb. 1932, Bloch, Letters, p. 60
93 ‘next six months’: W to AB, 11 Dec. 1932, Bloch, Letters, p. 62
93 ‘to a friendship’: HHR p. 191
94 ‘Thelma handed me’: NLD
94 ‘you need me’: W to AB, 17 May 1933, Bloch, Letters, p. 68
95 ‘to my figure’: ibid.
95 ‘Princess of Wales’: W to AB, 30 May 1933, Bloch, Letters, p. 70
95 ‘have refused her’: ibid.
95 ‘selfish old pig’: W to AB, 29 Oct. 1933, Bloch, Letters, p. 76
96 ‘look after him?’: HHR p. 192
96 ‘to be lonely’: Vanderbilt and Furness, Double Exposure, p. 291
96 ‘cheer him up’: W to AB, 26 Jan. 1934, Bloch, Letters, p. 84
96 ‘am the latest’: W to AB, 12 Feb. 1934, Bloch, Letters, p. 87
96 ‘with his papers’: HHR p. 193
96 ‘man is exhausting’: W to AB, 12 Feb. 19
34, Bloch, Letters, p. 87
96 ‘during the dancing’: HHR p. 193
96 ‘all is safe’: W to AB, 18 Feb. 1934, Bloch, Letters, p. 89
97 ‘with him alone’: (Wallis italics) W to AB, 25 April 1934, Bloch, Letters, p. 93
97 ‘swansong before 40’: ibid.
97 ‘loved it all?’: W to AB, postmarked 21 April 1934, Bloch, Letters, p. 93
97 ‘time will show’: W to AB, 18 Nov. 1935, Bloch, Letters, p. 143
97 ‘all the time’: W to AB, 27 Oct. 1934, Bloch, Letters, p. 101
98 ‘as a Mason’: JCCD/d Feb. 1936, JCCD Papers 26, The Parliamentary Archive, House of Lords Record Office
98 ‘into sponsoring him’: Thomas Papers, quoted in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 278,/blockquan>
98 ‘from him again’: Sarah Bradford, Sunday Times cutting 1998 n.d., private archive
99 ‘him exceedingly well’: Vanderbilt and Furness, Double Exposure, p. 298
99 ‘“is definitely no”’: HHR p. 194
100 ‘them more often’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 229
100 ‘not the second’: Aird Papers quoted in ibid.
100 ‘join the party’: HHR p. 195
100 ‘coward at heart’: Aird Papers quoted in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 230
100 ‘cash in best’: ibid.
100 ‘like a dog’: ibid.
101 ‘friendship and love’: HHR p. 197
101 ‘keep them both’: W to AB, 5 Nov. 1934, Bloch, Letters, p. 101
102 ‘my own house!’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 231; Kenneth Rose, King George V, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1983, p. 392
102 enclosure at Ascot: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 231, citing memo from Wigram, 12 April 1935, KEVIII Ab, box 4, Royal Archives
102 ‘of meaningless pleasantries’: HHR p. 205
102 ‘in the world’: HRH Prince Christopher of Greece, Memoirs of HRH Prince Christopher of Greece, Hurst & Blackett 1938, p. 62
102 ‘and especially me’: W to AB, 30 Dec. 1934, Bloch, Letters, p. 105
103 ‘awfully nice stones’: W to AB, 29 April 1935, Bloch, Letters, p. 117
103 ‘jewels and clothes’: Channon, Diaries, 7 Oct. 1935, p. 43
103 ‘the New Year’: Marie Belloc Lowndes, Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, ed. Susan Lowndes, Chatto & Windus 1971, pp. 145 – 6
103 ‘doing splendidly, Wallis?’: Daily Telegraph obituary of Dudley Forwood, 27 Jan. 2001
104 ‘at the end’: W to E, n.d., Bloch, Letters, p. 118
104 ‘easier for me?’: ibid.
104 ‘from your youthfulness’: ibid.
104 £6,000 per annum: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 238
105 ‘Prince of Wales’: Channon, Diaries, p. 41
105 ‘her company, ourselves’: Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, William Kimber 1967, p. 55
106 ‘to find it’: ibid., p. 54
106 ‘enter Royal society’: ibid.
106 ‘half an hour’: Channon, Diaries, p. 47
106 ‘charming, cultivated woman’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 232
107 ‘has admitted this’: 25 June 1935, marked ‘Secret’, MEPO 10/35, NA PRO
107 ‘is not clear’: S. M. Cretney, ‘The Divorce Law and the 1936 Abdication Crisis: A Supplemental Note’, Law Quarterly Review, 2004, pp. 163 – 71
107 ‘trouble with POW’: MEPO 10/35, NA PRO
107 when in drink’: 25 June 1935, signed Superintendent, marked ‘Secret’, MEPO 10/35, NA PRO
108 ‘but not Wallie’: Amanda Smith (ed.), Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy, Viking 2001, p. 263
108 ‘lived with her’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 233
108 ‘and no mistake’: ibid.
108 ‘married except David’: Rose, King George V, p. 390
108 ‘and the throne’: Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold, Hutchinson 1962, p. 197
109 ‘of her friends’: Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 57
109 ‘such as me’: HHR p. 216
109 ‘Silly Jubilee’: W to AB, 9 April 1935, Bloch, Letters, p. 115
109 ‘from royal lips’: Diary of Rev. Alan Don, ms 2863, Lambeth Palace Archives [herafter Don diary]
110 ‘significance had increased’: Philip Williamson, ‘The Monarchy and Public Values, 1910 – 1953’, in Andrzej Olechnowicz (ed.), The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2007, p. 223
110 ‘the upper classes’: Frank Prochaska, Republic of Britain, Penguin Books 2000, pp. 207 – 9
110 ‘the younger generation’: ibid.
110 ‘air about it’: ibid.
111 ‘of my dreams’: W to AB, 31 July 1935, Bloch, Letters, p. 130
111 ‘angelic Ernest again’: W to AB, 14 Oct. 1935, Bloch, Letters, p. 141
111 ‘this eanum body’: EP to W, n.d., Bloch, Letters, p. 139
Chapter 7: Wallis Out of Control
112 ‘feel like a cigar’: Dr Catherine Blackledge, The Story of V: Opening Pandora’s Box, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 182
112 ‘delay the genitals’: Higham, Mrs Simpson, p. 40
114 ‘your hair etc’: Diana Cooper diary, DUFC 2/17, Churchill Archives
115 ‘“care of that, Sir”’: Alfred Shaughnessy, Both Ends of the Candle: An Autobiography, Peter Owen 1976, p. 44
115 ‘reduced to tears’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 237, quoting Alfred Amos
115 ‘the offending nail’: Cooper, The Light of Common Day, p. 163
116 ‘possible, even likely’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 236
116 ‘“likes of me”’: W to AB, 30 Jan. 1936, Bloch, Letters, p. 158
116 returning for more: I am grateful to Dr Domenico di Ceglie, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the London Tavistock Centre, for explaining to me how this theory would fit the known characteristics of Wallis’s behaviour and personality. For further clarification of this personality type see Domenico di Ceglie and David Freedman, A Stranger in my Own Body: Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health, Karnac Books 1998
117 ‘than marrying her’: 2nd Earl of Birkenhead, Walter Monckton: The Life of Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969, p. 126
117 ‘and harassed soul’: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 5: The Prophet of Truth 1922 – 1939, Minerva 1990, p. 810
117 ‘of divorcing another’: marked ‘personal and very secret’, October 1936 – December 1937, Char 2/264, Churchill Archives
118 ‘marriage was impossible’: letter to Princess Royal, quoted in Francis Watson, Dawson of Penn, Chatto & Windus 1950, p. 296
118 ‘in twelve months’: Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin: A Biography, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969, p. 976
118 ‘other so tight’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 240
118 ‘have been weak’: W to EP, early Feb., Bloch, Letters, p. 156
118 ‘you have passed’: Ernest Simpson (hereafter EAS) to EP, 21 Jan. 1936, Bloch, Letters, p. 156
118 ‘silly little affairs’: Watson, Dawson of Penn, p. 285
119 ‘whence she came’: Channon, Diaries, p. 71
119 ‘without an e!!’: W to AB, 1 Feb. 1936, Bloch, Letters, p. 159
119 ‘1066 families here’: ibid.
120 ‘difficult to imagine’: Papers of Sir Edward Spears 6/4, Churchill Archives
120 ‘I don’t mind’: ibid.
120 ‘leave this about!’: Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, Lascelles Paper, Lasl 11/01/15, Churchill Archives
120 ‘very clever woman’: ibid.
121 ‘who reads Balzac’: Brian Masters, Great Hostesses, Constable 1982, p. 140
