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MAGAZINES/PERIODICALS
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Acknowledgments
The writing of this book has been a unique experience. Without the unstinting cooperation of so many of the close participants and witnesses to this Royal story, it could not have been written. It saddens me that I cannot thank each one personally here, but I shall, as I agreed, honor their request for anonymity. I am, however, forever grateful for the kindness shown me by these contributors, their amazing recall, eye and ear for detail and encyclopedic knowledge of the period that is the background for this book. Their graciousness and patience was exceptional. I was accorded much hospitality while in their homes, access to papers and to private photographs relating to this book, and extreme courtesy as hours were spent taping their recollections. I thank you all from my heart.
My gratitude is equally boundless to Mrs. Lavinia Lascelles Hankinson and Mrs. Caroline Lascelles Erskine, who were so helpful in making the papers of their father, Sir Alan Lascelles, available for me to study; to Hélène Cordêt for her kindness; to Dinah Sheridan, for permitting me to quote from the memoirs of her mother, the Royal Photographer Lisa Sheridan, and to Peter Townsend for his generosity in allowing me to quote so liberally from his book Time and Chance.
A special note of thanks to Elizabeth Bennett and Correlli Barnett, MA, of the Churchill Archives Centre, David Crippen of the Henry Ford Museum Archives, and Benedict K. Zobrist of the Harry S. Truman Library. Score
s of additional historians, librarians and archivists in England, France and the United States helped me in my research and I owe them a great debt of gratitude.
I have been exceptionally fortunate to have had the able research assistance of Sally Slaney in London. She has made this biographer’s task far easier. I would also like to thank Liz Claridge for her help in the photo research and Polly Brown who did such a splendid job of tracking down what information needed to be gathered from the various archives and federal agencies in Washington, D.C.
For over two decades I have had the good fortune to be represented in Great Britain by Hilary Rubinstein, and his personal interest in my work has always been extraordinary. My many thanks to him for all the introductions to various people interviewed for this book and for his good and helpful suggestions. My additional thanks to Clarissa Rushdie who so graciously and swiftly attends all my requests. My appreciation as well to Mitch Douglas at I.C.M. who is both my agent and good friend.
Few authors can be fortunate enough to have two fine editors. To Carol O’Brien of William Collins, Publishers, and to Harvey Ginsberg of William Morrow, Publishers, my gratitude is unending. Both have always been as near as a telephone and no query was ever dismissed as inconsequential, however unimportant it might have seemed. My thanks also to Simon King, Peter James and Ron Clark of William Collins, Publishers, and to Frank Mount (who has my continuing gratitude) of William Morrow.
Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank my husband, Stephen Citron, for his support and his constant help, his unerring editorial eye, his patience, and most of all his keen good judgment.
Anne Edwards
