by Anne Sebba
175 ‘£5,000 a year’: Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 326
175 ‘all over world’: Nancy Dugdale diary
176 ‘up in Parliament’: Smith, Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy, p. 262
176 ‘I was completely misled’: Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 327
176 ‘I have written’: ibid., p. 324
176 ‘of Mrs Simpson’: Lt Col Tweed to Lloyd George, 15 Dec. 1936, J. G. Jones, ‘Lloyd George and the Abdication of Edward VIII’, National Library of Wales Journal, vol. 30, 1997, pp. 89 – 105
177 King Charles I: DoW, A King’s Story, p. 409
177 ‘thing he disliked’: Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries, ed. Anne Olivier Bell, Vintage 2008, 10 Dec. 1936, p. 401
178 ‘hide my tears’: HHR p. 278
178 ‘he had chosen’: Lang Papers, Lambeth Palace Archives
178 ‘a faint reality’: Nancy Dugdale diary
179 ‘when he needs’: draft letter to Queen Mary, Dep. Monckton Trustees 14, fols. 64 – 65, Bodl. Lib.
179 ‘could turn in’: Shaughnessy, Both Ends of the Candle, p. 45
179 ‘all one’s heart’: Lucy Baldwin to Nancy Dugdale, reproduced in Nancy Dugdale diary
180 ‘Elizabeth R’: Don diary, 12 Dec. 1936
180 ‘wonderfully self controlled’: 10 Dec. 1936, Lang Papers, Lambeth Palace Archives
180 ‘display of power’: Thornton, Royal Feud, p. 112, citing private information
180 ‘in many respects’: Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 114
180 ‘away from visitors’: Channon, Diaries, 29 Nov. 1936, p. 111
180 ‘somebody in authority’: Memorandum by Sir Thomas Barnes, 22 Feb. 1937, TS 22/1/4, NA PRO
181 ‘and Mrs S’: Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 330, citing Memorandum by Wigram, 7 Dec. 1936, KEVIII Ab. box 4, Royal Archives
181 ‘love with him’: Cecil Beaton, Self-Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton 1926 – 74, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1979, p. 305
181 ‘to meet Ernest’: Baldwin Papers, p. 410
181 ‘by blind prejudice’: HHR p. 276
181 ‘never repay today’: quoted in Jones, ‘Lloyd George and the Abdication of Edward VIII’, p. 92
182 ‘ministers and parliament’: HHR p. 247
182 ‘as their means’: Nancy Dugdale diary, citing ‘letter that came into my hands’ from W to Mrs George (Kitty) Hunter, postmarked 3 January 1937
182 ‘was prepared to pay’: ‘Lloyd George and the Abdication of Edward VIII’, National Library of Wales Journal, vol. 30, 1997, p. 95
183 ‘the little man’: Lloyd George to Megan Lloyd George, 9 Dec. 1936, MS 20 475C no. 3150, National Library of Wales
183 ‘thought the same’: Duff Hart-Davis (ed.), The King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War – The Diaries of ‘Tommy’ Lascelles, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006, p. 50
183 ‘He will abdicate’: Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 199
184 ‘few vital days’: MEPO 10/35, NA PRO
185 ‘wherever I went’: Martin, The Woman He Loved, p. 12
185 Mrs Fitzherbert: Beaverbrook Papers, series G 25, memo of 9 Sept. 1949
185 ‘with you throughout!’: Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 330, citing Royal Archives DW 3059
185 ‘so sit all day’: W to EAS, postmarked 22 Dec. 1936, private archive
185 ‘that have been’: EAS to W, Oct. 1936, letter sold at auction widely quoted in UK press and Vickers, p. 417
186 ‘counted his royalties’: Forbes, TLS, 1 Nov. 1974
186 ‘sacrifice to himself’: Sarah Bradford to Piers Brendon, Brendon Papers 2/2/1, Churchill Archives
186 ‘lowest of the low’: letter to Lord Lloyd, 6 July 1940, marked ‘Windsor Castle copy’, Papers of Lord Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD 21/7, Churchill Archives
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187 ‘loved King Edward’: speech widely reported – this version Daily Telegraph, Monday 14 Dec. 1936, Amel 1/5/25, Churchill Archives
187 ‘been the medium’: Reith to Lang, 14 Dec. 1936, Lang Papers, 192 FO 380
187 ‘and pathetic figure’: Rev. Dr A. C. Bouquet, quoted in G. Machin, ‘Marriage and the Churches in the 1930s’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 42, 1991, 68 – 81
188 ‘intolerance and obscurantism’: New Statesman, 19 Dec. 1936
188 ‘of normal love’: Lang Papers, vol. 318, Lambeth Palace Archives
188 ‘a sincere response’: 21 Dec. 1936, Lang Papers, Notes on the Abdication, Lambeth Palace Archives
188 ‘Royal Family again’: quoted in letter from ‘A Scout’ to A. J. Sylvester, 5 Jan. 1936 [recte 1937], Jones, ‘Lloyd George and the Abdication of Edward VIII’, p. 104
189 leave the country: Hansard, House of Commons, vol. 318, col. 2216
189 form a government: Francis Beckett, The Rebel Who Lost his Cause: The Tragedy of John Beckett MP, Allison & Busby 2000, p. 141
190 ‘his own ends’: Woolf, Selected Diaries, 7 Dec. 1936, p. 400
190 ‘cock crew thrice’: quoted in Masters, Great Hostesses, p. 186
191 ‘shown to me’: Brownlow to Cromer, 23 Dec. 1936, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/6/11, Lincolnshire Archives
191 ‘row to hoe’: Baldwin to Brownlow, 12 Jan. 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/7/a, Lincolnshire Archives
191 ‘it long ago’: W to Brownlow, ‘Friday 19th’ [either Feb. or March 1937], Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/9, Lincolnshire Archives
191 soon as possible: 15 Dec. 1936, Legh to Thomas, quoted in Ziegler, King Edpanidth="-20ward VIII, p. 339
191 ‘anything might happen’: Don diary
191 ‘a monarch’s service’: Daily Telegraph obituary of Dudley Forwood, 27 Jan. 2001
192 ‘shun the game’: Wilson, Her Name was Wallis Warfield, Dec. 1936
192 ‘am very sad’: W to EAS, n.d., private archive
193 ‘be there anyway’: 22 Dec. 1936, Dep. Monckton Trustees 14, fol. 77, Bodl. Lib.
193 ‘simply haven’t understood’: W to Kitty Rothschild, 18 Dec. 1936, Bloch, Letters, p. 235
193 ‘that fatal charm!’: W to EP, n.d., Bloch, Letters, p. 253
193 ‘(I suspect that)’: ibid.; also quoted in Williams, The People’s King, p. 268
194 ‘my morning tray’: HHR p. 280
194 ‘he should pay’: all the above from CAB 21/4100/2 index to secret file, NA PRO
194 ‘take her in’: HHR p. 277
194 ‘in English law’: Stephen Cretney, ‘The King and the King’s Proctor’, Law Quarterly Review, vol. 16, 2000, 583 – 620
194 ‘on six pounds’: Higham, Mrs Simpson, p. 210
195 ‘must be stopped’: EAS to Mrs E. L. Simpson, 1 Jan. 1937, private archive
195 ‘against their intentions’: W to EAS, 16 Feb. 1937, private archive
195 ‘it is now’: ibid.
196 ‘them torn up’: W to E, 16 Feb. 1937, private archive
196 ‘Katherine by now … !’: ibid.
196 ‘is no longer King’: MKR to Annie Kirk, 7 Jan. 1937, TOMS, p. 50
197 ‘jewels at all’: Constance Coolidge Atherton, Comtesse de Jumilhac, to ‘Crownie’, 28 May 1937, Maryland Historical Society (hereafter MHS) MS 1772 Windsor Collection
197 ‘only formal routine’: Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 5 March 1937, Lascelles Papers, Lasl 11/001/16a, Churchill Archives
197 ‘him in turn’: ibid.
197 ‘from such servants’: TS 22/1/A, NA PRO
198 ‘does in fact exist’: ibid.
198 to give evidence: ibid.
199 ‘my business career’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 363
200 ‘up from Fortnums’: MKR to Jacques Raffray, 18 May 1937, TOMS, pp. 53 – 5
200 ‘practically killed me’: W to EAS, 12 May 1937, private archive
200 ‘in this way’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 356
200 ‘at the ceremony’: ibid.
200 ‘with stoical dignity’: ibid.
201 to the Duke: Sarah Bradford, Brendon Pap
ers, Bren 2/2/1, Churchill Archives
201 ‘such a thing’: Alec Sergeant’s notes marked ‘Private and Confidential’, Lang Papers, Lambeth Palace Archives
202 ‘such monstrous suggestions’: Wigram to Lang, 5 April 1937, Lang Papers, vol. 318, Lambeth Palace Archives
202 ‘thousand times harder’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 348
202 ‘do anything else’: ibid., p. 355
202 finish his breakfast: Owen Chadwick, Hensley Henson, Oxford University Press 1983, p. 232
203 ‘his Parish Church’: 5 May 1937, Crawford Papers, John Vincent (ed.), The Journals of David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres 1871 – 1940, Manchester University Press 1984, p. 579
203 ‘be doubly bigamous’: ibid.
203 ‘“told this before?”’: ibid.
204 ‘him by death’: cutting in TS 221/8, NA PRO
204 ‘hates us both’: W to DoW, 7 Feb. 1937, Bloch, Letters, p. 258
204 ‘off the throne’: Higham, Mrs Simpson, p. 220
204 ‘for exceptional treatment’: Stamfordham to Davidson, 29 July 1922, Archbishop Davidson Papers, 6/76
204 ‘I can’t see’: W to DoW, 6 Feb. 1937, Bloch, Letters, p. 256
204 ‘has no jurisdiction’: Chadwick, Hensley Henson, p. 231
205 ‘silent and loyal’: Sue Shephard, The Surprising Life of Constance Spry, Macmillan 2010, p. 204
205 ‘would see them’: ibid., p. 207
205 ‘and good taste’: Brownlow to W, 26 April 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/17, Lincolnshire Archives
205 ‘become very difficult’: Nugent Hicks to Brownlow, 18 May 1937, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/5/21, Lincolnshire Archives
206 ‘“ex-King of England”’: Shephard, The Surprising Life of Constance Spry, p. 207
206 ‘a broad grin’: ibid., p. 205
206 ‘this for me’: Chadwick, Hensley Henson, p. 232
207 ‘the worst blow’: private diaries of Lady Alexandra Metcalfe (hereafter LAM), with thanks to David Metcalfe for permission to quote from them
207 ‘her American friends’: MKR to Buckie Kirk, 30 May 1937, Radcliffe/Schlesinger collection
208 ‘title being conferred’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 358
208 ‘to become Royal’: ibid., p. 359
208 ‘a nice wedding present’: ibid., p. 360
208 ‘weakness in everything’: LAM diary
208 ‘heaped on her’: ibid.
209 ‘most disastrous results’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 358
209 ‘king of England’: LAM diary
210 ‘birth or connections’: HHR p. 280
210 ‘happiness much love’: Dep. Monckton Trustees 15, fol. 176, Bodl. Lib.
210 ‘a younger man’: LAM diary
210 ‘“make him happy”’: Birkenhead, Walter Monckton, p. 362
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211 ‘have given up’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 351
211 ‘see her suffering’: DoW to WM, 31 Oct. 1938, Dep. Monckton Trustees 16, fol. 176, Bodl. Lib.
212 ‘“the Duke down”’: Daily Telegraph obituary of Dudley Forwood, 27 Jan. 2001
212 ‘recognised with incredulity’: HHR p. 282
212 ‘try not to’: W to EAS, Monday 30 Aug. 1937, private archive
212 ‘courage for that’: ibid.
212 ‘knew you would’: ibid.
213 ‘for a dentist’: ibid.
213 ‘book in it’: Mary Simpson diary, 1938, private archive
213 ‘With love, Wallis’: W to EAS, n.d., private archive
214 ‘the other way’: WM to Tommy Dugdale, 23 Dec. 1936, Dep. Monckton Trustees 14, Bodl. Lib.
214 ‘with good publicity’: DoW to Bernard Rickatson-Hatt, 18 May 1938, Thomson Reuters Archive
214 ‘old Palace enemies’: ibid.
215 ‘and the Nazis’: quoted in Rose, King George V, citing Mensdorff Papers, 11 Nov. 1933, State Archives, Vienna
216 ‘him a lot’: Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/7, Churchill Archives
216 ‘England in December’: DoW to WM, 16 July 1937, Dep. Monckton Trustees 15, fol. 237, Bodl. Lib.
216 ‘British working man’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 390, quoting Phipps
216 ‘German mining industry’: Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/6, Churchill Archives
216 ‘are much nicer’: W to EAS, n.d., private archive
217 ‘his bombastic pretensions’: DoW, A King’s Story, p. 277
217 ‘of Hun origin’: Higham, Mrs Simpson, p. 259
217 ‘discussion with him!’: HHR p. 308
217 ‘not a crime’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 386
218 ‘for his security’: Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/7, Churchill Archives
218 ‘for “That Woman”’: Crawford Papers, Vincent, Journals of David Lindsay, pp. 616 – 21
219 ‘his eyes now?’: Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, The Diaries of Robert Bruce Lockhart 1915 – 38, ed. Kenneth Young, Macmillan 1973, 10 Dec. 1938, p. 413
219 ‘pray to God. Wallis’: W to EAS, Saturday 30 October 1937, private archive
219 ‘or racial doctrine’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 396
220 ‘score for us’: Mary Simpson diary, private archive
220 ‘back of it’: Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, pp. 423 – 4
220 ‘controversy about it’: ibid., p. 446
221 ‘between us impossible’: ibid.
221 ‘distinction and success’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 393
221 ‘List is considered’: WSC to Clementine Churchill, 7 Jan. 1937, Mary Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill, Doubleday 1998, pp. 422 – 3
222 ‘a devoted servant’: WSC to Maxine Elliott, 30 Dec. 1937, Char 1/300/86, Churchill Archives
222 ‘most happy marriage’: WSC to Clementine Churchill, 10 Jan. 1938, Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 433
223 ‘life in exile’: Nicolson, Diaries and Letters 1930 – 39, p. 351
223 ‘were probably retarded’: Colin Davidson to WM, 5 Sept. 1938, Dep. Monckton Trustees 16, fol. 134, Bodl. Lib.
223 ‘to stop him’: WSC to Clementine Churchill, 18 Jan. 1939, Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 449
223 ‘just a reminder’: W to WM, 2 Feb. 1938, Dep. Monckton Trustees 16, fols. 31 – 32, Bodl. Lib.
224 ‘brother of the King’: ibid.
224 ‘not kicked out’: Colin Davidson to WM, 5 Sept. 1938, Dep. Monckton Trustees 16, fol. 134, Bodl. Lib.
224 ‘older I realise it’: Sunday Dispatch, 12 March 1939
225 ‘all to subdue’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 399
225 ‘fools and rogues’: Mary Simpson diary, private archive
226 ‘remains the same’: copies of both telegrams, 27 Aug. 1939, Dep. Monckton Trustees 17, fol. 93, Bodl. Lib.
226 ‘were our guests’: LAM uesing fdiary
226 ‘still at Antibes’: Dep. Monckton Trustees 22, fols. 1 – 103, WM typed account of events October to December 1936 with postscript, Bodl. Lib.
226 ‘jumping out, etc’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 403
227 ‘only a grip’: DoW to British Ambassador in Paris, 3 Sept. 1939, relayed to WM, Dep. Monckton Trustees 17, fol. 122, Bodl. Lib.
227 ‘of your PRIDE’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 403, quoting Metcalfe Papers
228 ‘of his departure’: LAM diary
228 ‘have skated on’: ibid.
228 ‘did not exist’: HHR p. 324
228 ‘and completely simple’: LAM diary
229 ‘ever to return’: ibid.
229 ‘and speak English’: W to WM, 2 Jan. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fols. 13v – 14, Bodl. Lib.
229 ‘in my life’: HHR p. 328
