by Anne Sebba
230 ‘is the end’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 417
231 ‘never occur again’: FO 800/326 f. 195, NA PRO
232 ‘a few politicians’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 421
232 ordered him home: Char 20/9A/11 – 12, Churchill Archives
232 ‘end of the war’: W to WM, 2 Jan. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fol. 12, Bodl. Lib.
232 ‘a little silly’: HHR p. 41
233 ‘fill with you’: ibid.
233 ‘reconsider my position’: 18 July 1940, Char 20 9A/76, Churchill Archives
233 ‘a petulant baby’: 20 July 1940, Char 20 9A/76, Churchill Archives
Chapter 12: Wallis Grits her Teeth
234 ‘maximum of frustration’: Michael Bloch, The Duke of Windsor’s War, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1982, p. 96
235 ‘permanent slimming cure’: King, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 356
235 ‘for the figure’: DoW to WM, 27 Sept. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fol. 108, Bodl. Lib.
235 ‘happens to you’: Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/7, Churchill Archives
235 ‘off in a passion’: ibid.
235 ‘of such orders’: W to WM, 16 Sept. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fols. 100 – 101, Bodl. Lib.
237 ‘things less unpleasant’: WM to DoW, 26 Aug. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fol. 90, Bodl. Lib.
237 ‘the past months’: W to WM, 16 Sept. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fol. 99, Bodl. Lib.
237 ‘you, dear Walter’: ibid.
238 ‘seen any number’: W to WM, 2 Oct. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fols. 113v – 114, Bodl. Lib.
238 ‘me to them’: W to WM, 23 Oct. 1940, Dep. Monckton Trustees 18, fols. 125 – 129, Bodl. Lib.
238 ‘with no future’: W to Edith Lindsay, 30 Aug. 1942, MHS
238 ‘common and uninteresting’: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, Transworld 1988, p. 175
239 ‘would be solved’: W to WM, 5 March 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fol. 22, Bodl. Lib.
239 ‘them as such’: W to WM, 16 May 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fols. 81 – 82, Bodl. Lib.
239 ‘with the Duke’: ibid.
240 ‘as you know’: W to WM, 30 April 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fols. 43 – 44, Bodl. Lib.
240 ‘it is alarming’: ibid.
240 ‘paper the better’: WSC to WM, 11 June 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fol. 97, Bodl. Lib.
241 ‘only ill two weeks’: W to WM, 17 June 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fols. 103 – 106, Bodl. Lib.
241 ‘pinned on the Duke’: W to WM, Sept. 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fols. 197 – 201, Bodl. Lib.
241 ‘burst from his cell’: ibid.
242 ‘peace and happiness’: King, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 364
242 ‘quite a while!!!’: EP to FDW, 7 Sept. 1919, LFP p. 228
242 ‘Ernest like mine’: Mary Simpson diary, April 1940, private archive
242 ‘not crying over’: Mary Simpson to Anne Kirk, 24 Oct. 1939, TOMS, p. 128
243 ‘be made public’: Kirk Hollingsworth, Conversation with author, 1 Nov. 2009
243 ‘Windsors are perfect’: Mary Simpson diary, 1 Dec. 1940, private archive
243 ‘for the future’: W to EAS, 3 Oct. 1941, private archive
244 ‘remarkable a degree’: René MacColl, Deadline and Dateline, Oldbourne Press 1956, pp. 124 – 5
244 ‘dropped his arm’: ibid.
244 ‘full of clothing’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 467
244 ‘those on the spot’: W to Edith Lindsay, April 1943, ‘On board the boat and rocky’, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection
244 ‘consider this outrageous’: King, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 364
244 ‘are strictly rationed’: Washington Star, 29 Oct. 1941
245 ‘do without her’: Rosa Wood to Edith Lindsay, 25 Oct. 1942, MHS
245 ‘isn’t for charity’: W to WM, 5 March 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fols. 197 – 201, Bodl. Lib.
245 ‘and pathetic surroundings’: ibid.
245 ‘off to England’: W to Edith Lindsay, 28 March 1942, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection
246 ‘two months leave’: W to Edith Lindsay, 30 Aug. 1942, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection
246 ‘other any more’: W to Edith Lindsay, 5 Feb. 1943, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection
246 been further reconciliation: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 484
246 ‘wall of disinterest’: Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, p. 202
247 ‘all too tragic’: W to Edith Lindsay, 23 July 1943, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection
247 ‘you this minute’: ibid.
247 ‘and attractive people’: W to Edith Lindsay, Sept. 1943, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection
248 ‘free once more’: W to WM, Sept. 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fols. 197 – 201, Bodl. Lib.
248 ‘people, I find’: W to Edith Lindsay, Sept. 1943, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection
248 ‘allows such behaviour?’: W to AB, 15 July 1940, Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, p. 163
248 ‘on 80,000,000 people?’: Liberty, March 1941, quoted in Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, p. 187
249 ‘might be arranged’: Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, p. 188
249 ‘that appointed me’: ibid., p. 189
249 ‘an unwarranted step’: DoW to WSC, 10 Nov. 1942, Churchill Papers 20/63, Chartwell Trust
250 ‘the Duchess’s loyalty’: King George VI to WSC, 9 Dec. 1942, Churchill Papers 20/52, Chartwell Trust
250 ‘be in obscurity’: Wallis to Edith Lindsay, 23 April 1943, MHS, MS 1772, Windsor Collection
250 ‘share these views’: King George VI to WSC, 8 Dec. 1942, Churchill Papers 20/52, Chartwell Trust
250 ‘interfere in politics’: Horace Wilson to Chancellor of Exchequer, 10 Dec. 1936, PREM 1/453, NA PRO
250 ‘in enemy hands’: FO 371/24249 f. 155, NA PRO
251 ‘less easily defended’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 458
252 ‘campaign against her’: Unsigned confidential memorandum, New York, 1 Aug. 1944, FBI Papers, US Department of Justice
252 ‘publishers and editors’: ibid.
252 ‘exercise discreet observations’: Department of State to Attorney General, 18 April 1941, FBI Papers, US Department of Justice
252 ‘out of placeotment ’: Memorandum for the Director, 21 April 1941, FBI Papers, US Department of Justice
252 ‘the Duke’s eyes’: W to WM, 30 April 1941, Dep. Monckton Trustees 19, fol. 41, Bodl. Lib.
253 ‘at Number 10’: DoW to WM, 1946, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20, fol. 24, Bodl. Lib.
253 ‘in world history’: Sunday Telegraph, 21 Oct. 2001.
Chapter 13: Best-Dressed Wallis
254 ‘of the earth’: Bloch, Duchess of Windsor, p. 184
255 ‘unrelenting royal family’: Time, 28 Oct. 1946
255 ‘near to tears’: Laura, Duchess of Marlborough, Laughter from a Cloud, pp. 104 – 5
255 ‘man so relieved’: ibid.
255 ‘to Queen Alexandra’: ibid.
256 ‘denied to her’: Kathleen Kennedy Hartington, 27 Oct. 1946, Smith, Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy, p. 632
256 ‘Sovereign of this country’: The Duke’s Consultations of Jowitt on the Question of the Duchess’s Title, cited in Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, p. 311
256 ‘“Her Royal Highness”’: ibid., p. 310
256 ‘of good manners’: ibid., p. 312
257 ‘is very sexy’: Suzy Menkes, The Windsor Style, Grafton Books 1987, p. 191
259 ‘forms of surgery’: consultant psychiatrist Dr Iain Oswald, Conversation with author, 13 Feb. 2011
260 ‘only granite below’: Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 195
260 ‘and quite brilliant journalist’: DoW to WM, 8 Dec. 1948, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20, fol. 24, Bodl. Lib.
261 ‘to the top’: W to EAS, 13
July 1955, private archive
262 ‘get me one’: J. Bryan III and Charles J. V. Murphy, The Windsor Story, Granada 1979, p. 519
262 ‘who they were’: Linda Mortimer, Conversations with author, New York, 2 Nov. 2009
262 ‘“pushed me off”’: Charles Pick, unpublished memoir courtesy of Martin Pick, n.d.
263 ‘is sadly diminished’: Elsa Maxwell, American Weekly, 18 Dec. 1955
263 ‘“go against me!”’: ibid.
263 ‘of her appearance’: Elsa Maxwell, American Weekly, 11 Dec. 1955
264 ‘now in death’: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 538
264 ‘Cookie and Shirley’: 7 March 1953, Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, p. 273
264 ‘English or French’: quoted in Menkes, The Windsor Style, p. 62
264 ‘not good enough’: ibid., p. 63
264 ‘no real charm’: ibid.
265 ‘“to talk to”’: Susan Mary Alsop, To Marietta from Paris 1945 – 1960, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1976, p. 54
265 ‘life in exile’: Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, vol. II, p. 269
266 ‘you eanum flowers’: Menkes, The Windsor Style, p. 17
266 ‘up the pansy’, Haslam, Redeeming Features, p. 193
266 ‘their upward rise’: Helen Worden, American Mercury, June 1944
268 ‘admirable at all’: interview with Frank Giles, Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/7, Churchill Archives
268 ‘grovelling to me’: John Balfour, Not Too Correct an Aureole, John Russell 1983, p. 64
269 ‘down at once’: interview with Kenneth de Courcy, Brendon Papers, Bren 2/2/5, Churchill Archives
269 ‘un-undressable as Wallis’: Haslam, Redeeming Features, p. 194
269 ‘decorators and couturiers’: Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 191
269 Duke and Duchess: Higham, Mrs Simpson, p. 455
270 ‘plans and planning’: HHR p. 365
270 ‘the Queen Mary’: Charles Pick, unpublished memoir courtesy of Martin Pick, n.d.
272 ‘coming back here’: Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 216
Chapter 14: Wallis Alone
273 ‘awfully to live’: Mary Simpson diary, private archive
273 ‘had been friends’: ibid.
274 a small monkey: Haslam, Redeeming Features, p. 195
274 in her nose: Caroline Blackwood, The Last of the Duchess, Macmillan 1995, p. 14
274 from the Queen: Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 555
274 it did not: King, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 489
275 ‘bottles of drink’: Anne Boston, Lesley Blanch: Inner Landscapes, Wilder Shores, John Murray 2010, p. 226, citing Maureen Cleave interview in Daily Telegraph, 1987
276 ‘to the press’: Hugo Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, Hutchinson 2011, p. 127
276 of the Duchess: Nichola McAuliffe, Daily Mail, 14 Feb. 2009
277 ‘wThe Windsor Style, p. 139
278 ‘couple’s romantic legacy’: www.alfayed.com
279 ‘Constitution stand for’: Kenneth W. Prescott and Emma-Stina Prescott, The Complete Graphic Works of Jack Levine, New York, Dover Publications 1984, p. 48
280 ‘little more light’: E. B. Kirk to Lady Donaldson, May 1979, Kirk Family Archive
280 ‘them into life’: William Boyd, Bamboo, Hamish Hamilton 2005, p. 573
281 ‘private affairs, angel’: EP to FDW, 21 Sept. 1919, LFP p. 240
281 ‘porcelain dinner service’: Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow, New Directions 2005, pp. 460 – 3
281 ‘in Hitler’s hands’: ibid.
282 ‘within my capacities’: HHR p. 97
282 ‘out of life’: ibid.
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