Friedberg, Lionel 348
Frogmore 17, 310, 323, 335
Führerprinzip (leader principle) 16
Fuller, Maj.-Gen. J.C.F. 95
Furness, Lady 8
Furness, Thelma 64
Game, Sir Philip 63
Garbo, Greta 141, 278–9
George, Duke of Kent 2, 5, 82, 105, 111, 157–8, 231
death of 177–8
George III 252, 308
George IV 1, 234, 252, 287, 351
George V 9, 28, 65, 69, 320, 345
bullying nature of 346
death of 2, 339
George VI 2, 3, 5, 17–19, 27, 40, 42–4, 60, 66, 71, 89, 92, 109, 113–15, 173, 183, 186, 216, 218, 360
brother seen as threat to 72–4
coronation of 10, 25, 28, 83, 287, 289
death of 285
ill health 261–2, 280, 285
Memorial Chapel 312
US tour undertaken by 82
‘Windsor file’ see under Germany
Windsor’s post-Abdication meeting with 87
Germany:
Belgium invaded by 94–5, 98
Britain declares war on 84
Edward VIII reinstatement plan 154–5, 185–6, 355–6
France invaded by 98–101
Operation Willi 117–31, 167, 358
Phoney War 85–101, 162
Rhineland Crisis 40, 294
Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact (1939) 221
secret service 104
US liberates documents from 221–37
‘Windsor file’ 221–37, 246–8, 269, 292–5, 301–2, 309, 357–8
Windsors courted by 51–2, 66, 100, 104–5, 108, 110, 115, 117–31, 154–5, 161–2, 167, 221–37, 231–2, 354, 354–8, 358
Windsors tour (1937) 42–6
Getty, Paul 52
Ghislaine, Princess 288
Giles, Frank 300, 342, 343
Gladwyn, Cynthia 250, 299, 344
Goebbels, Dr Joseph 48, 150
Goering, Hermann 15, 45, 49, 100, 140, 142, 147, 155, 185
Gordon, Alice 137
Gordon, G.A. 141
Gort, Lord 92
Government House 133–7, 143, 147–8, 155–6, 168, 180, 182, 191
Graftieaux, Marie-Leonie 64–5
Graftieaux, Pierre-Edouard 65
Great Britain:
Admiralty 86–7, 157
Colonial Office 122, 146, 150, 154, 169, 175–6, 193–6, 199, 203, 209
declares war on Germany 79
Food Mission 156
foreign policy 79
Hitler orders attack on, see Battle of Britain
negotiated settlement 150
Phoney War 85–101, 162
Public Record Office 163
Purchasing Commission 154
Greenacre, Douglas 320
Gregoire, Armand 15
Guedalla, Philip 82
The Hague 89, 97, 98, 137
Hale, James 75, 77
Halifax, Dorothy 159
Halifax, Lord 71, 100, 123, 124, 159, 160, 163, 184, 194, 224, 228, 235–6
Hallinan, Eric 169, 209
Halsey, Lionel 9
Halstead, Stanley E. 205
Hamilton, Hildegarde 203
Hanover, Prince Ernst August von 230
Haore, Sam 114
Hardinge, Alec 41, 43
Harris, David 227
Harris, Kenneth 312
Harris, Wilf 65
Harrison, Rex 277–9
Harrison, Sir Geoffrey 47
Harvey, Oliver 95, 185, 216
Haslam, Nicky 267, 269, 281, 346
Hauser, Gayelord 349
Haussmann, Georges-Eugène 290
Heape, Leslie 141, 169, 175, 209
Hemingway, Ernest 197, 252
Hempel, Eduard 124
Henderson, Neville 43
Henderson, Sir Neville 47
Henry, Duke of Gloucester 2, 346
Henry-Hay, Gaston 176
Hess, Rudolf 15, 48, 51
Hesse archive 229–32
Hesse, Fritz 40
Hewel, Walther 125
Hickerson, John 227
Higham, Charles 62, 103–4, 157, 163, 268, 346
Hilfiger, Tommy 336
Himmler, Heinrich 48
Hitler, Adolf 15, 16, 29, 35, 37, 39, 42, 67, 100, 125, 142, 150, 154, 156, 162, 223, 231–2, 248, 360
Directive No. 17 ordered by 131
50th birthday parade 95
‘New Order’ 150, 188
Reichstag speech 123
Rhineland Crisis 40, 294
Windsors courted by see under Germany
Windsor’s telegram to 83
Hivet, Denise 256
Hoare, Samuel 104, 106–7, 109, 124, 301
Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Prince Max zu 110, 125
Hohenlohe, Stephanie von 355
Hollywood 17, 328, 347–9
Holmes, Leslie 245–6
homosexuality 62–3, 112, 267–71, 281, 295, 346, 347, 350
Hood, Dina 76, 342–3
Hoover, Herbert 253, 368
Hoover, J. Edgar 153, 155, 161, 188, 195, 205, 213–14
Hopkins, Harry 145
Hore-Belisha, Leslie 88
Horthy, Regent 36, 38
Hotel Bristol 35
Hotel Meurice 60
Houts, Marshall 206
Howard-Vyse, Maj.-Gen. Sir Richard 88, 92–3, 101
Howe, Capt. Cecil 7
Howe, Polly 252
Hoyningen-Huene, Baron Oswald von 118, 128, 131
Hull, Cordell 111, 184
Huntington, Robert Palmer 155
Hutton, Barbara 265, 271, 340–1
Hyde, Montgomery 147–8, 167
indiscretion 12, 41, 118, 122, 182, 354
Instrument of Abdication, see Abdication Act
Inverchapel, Lord 247
Ireland 66, 253
Ironside, Lord Edmund 89–90
isolationism 82, 137–8, 144, 151, 158, 160, 279
Italy 35, 68, 72, 110, 124, 319
James, ADM Sir William 86
Jardine, Revd Robert Anderson 26
Jebb, Gladwyn 113, 130
Jelke, Frazier 156
Johnson, Sydney 256, 317, 326
Jones, Alice Hill 170
Keeler, Leonard 202
Kelley, Newell 204
Kelly, Madeline 191
Kelly, Sir David 110
Kenmare, Lady 276
Kennedy, Jacqueline 257, 329
Kent, Duke and Duchess 319–20, 335
Kent, Tyler 356
Khan, Aly 328
kidnapping fears 83–4, 109, 117–31, 118, 167, 358
Killan, Isaak 233
King, Greg 310, 318
Kinna, Martin 99
Kirkpatrick, Sir Ivone 294–5
Knox, Sir George 38
Kopp, Rudolf 75
Ladbroke, George 2
Ladew, Harvey 268
LaGuardia, Mayor 159
Lambert, Margaret 293–4
Lancaster, Nancy 286
Lanchester, Elsa 269
Lansky, Meyer 196
Lascelles, Sir Alan (‘Tommy’) 12, 115, 210, 217–18, 223–5, 228, 234–6, 244, 260, 342, 357
Laura, Duchess of Marlborough 335
Law, Nigel 52
Lawford, Valentine 78–80
Le Franc, Greg 15
Le Franciste 15
Le Moulin de la Tuilerie (‘the Mill’) 258, 286–8, 302–3, 325
Le Vien, Jack 310–11
League of Nations 35
Leahy, ADM William 149–50
Lebensraum (‘living space’) 100
Legh, Piers 5, 7, 13
Legros, René 256
Leinhardt, Dr Gaea 340, 359–60
Lend–Lease Act 144, 168
Leopold III of Belgium 68, 250
Leslie, Leonie 228
Letters Patent 27
Ley, Dr Robert 35, 47, 50, 52
Liddel
l, Guy 146, 222–3, 225, 229, 244, 357
Lindsay, Edith 179, 181, 219
Lindsay, Sir Ronald 43–5, 54–5
Lloyd George, David 124
Lloyd, Lord 113, 121, 133, 145, 147
Lockhart, Robert Bruce 39
Loesch, Carl von 222–3
Loesch, Karl 221–2
Loftus, John 231
Lothian, Lord Philip 110, 123, 123–4, 136–8, 142–3, 143
Louis XV 60
Louis XVI 290
Lovell, Malcolm 123, 124
Luce, Henry 260
MacColl, René 162, 337
McCormick, Harold 212
Macdonald, Peter 65
Mackenzie, Compton 34
McKinney, Basil 198
Mackintosh, Alastair (‘Ali’) 154, 155, 288
Macksey, Dorothy 205, 206
Mackworth-Young, Sir Robin 327
McMullin, John 268
Mafalda, Princess 62
Majava, Edward 203–4
Marburg File 221–37, 246–8, 269, 292–5, 301–2, 309, 357–8
Marbury, Elisabeth 60
Marchant, Ronald 256
Margaret, Princess 66, 285
Margaret, Princess of Hesse 229
Maria (maid) 333
Marie Antoinette 254
Marie Jose, Queen of Italy 68
Marina, Princess 312
Marlborough House 234, 311, 320
Maroni, Madame 61–3
Marquis, John 206
Marshall, George 247
Martin (gardener/chauffeur) 333
Martin, John 147, 210, 218
Marvell, Andrew 2
Mary, Princess Royal 2, 5, 25
death of 310
Mary, Queen (Mary of Teck) 2, 5, 17, 25, 69, 72, 81, 89, 161, 218, 228, 290, 302, 311, 345–6
commemorative plaque 311, 320
death of 289
80th birthday 250
moral cowardice 304
Wallis writes to 173
Windsor’s post-war visits to 234, 250, 289
Massey, Lucien 256
Massigli, Rene 216
Masters, John 305
Maugham, Somerset 16, 71, 268
Maxwell, Elsa 273, 349
Melchen, Capt. Edward 192, 195
Mendl, Lady Elsie 60, 69, 78, 79, 94, 254, 268, 367
Mendl, Sir Charles 60, 79, 268
Menzies, Sir Stewart 151
Merman, Ethel 273–4
Merriman, Mrs (‘Aunt Bessie’) 29–30, 60, 184, 195, 209
Messersmith, George 35, 36, 149, 161
Metcalfe, Baba 17, 19, 28–31, 85–6, 88–9, 99, 100, 335
Metcalfe, Edward (‘Fruity’) 16–17, 19, 28, 29, 89, 99–101, 268–9, 296, 297
Metcalfe, Lady Alexandra 341
Mexico 141, 147–8, 172, 198–200, 202
Michael, Princess of Kent 335
MI5 98, 146, 157, 222–6, 229, 231, 244, 356–8, 368
Mirville, Eric 66–7
MI6 91, 98, 145–51
Mr Loo (dog), see Slipper
Moats, Alice 274
Monckton, Alexandra 310
Monckton, Biddy 329
Monckton, Walter 2–5, 11, 18, 27, 29, 31–2, 73, 80, 83–4, 86, 92–3, 96, 109, 121, 135, 211, 224, 283, 290, 294, 304–5, 309–10
Mooney, James D. 143, 148–9, 160, 184, 256
morganatic marriage 27, 393
Morgenthau, Henry 163
Morley, Sir Godfrey 328, 329
Morrison, Sarah 257
Morshead, Owen 248
Morshead, Sir Owen 228–30
Morton, Desmond 130
Mosley, Diana 38–9, 207, 335, 346
Mosley, Sir Oswald 11, 15, 33, 40, 223, 359
mother fixation 63
Moulichon, Marguerite 120
Mountbatten, Lord Louis (‘Dickie’) 4, 26, 261–2, 268, 316–17, 319, 320, 321, 327–8, 333
first command of 86
Mountbatten, Philip, see Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Moyne, Lord 151
Muir, Campbell 246
Munargo 142
Mundy, Rodney 246
Munnings, Alfred 69, 291
Munster, Count Paul 33
Murphy, Charles 77, 93, 257, 260–1, 283, 297, 308, 317, 341
Murphy, Robert 188
Murphy, Sir William 203
Murrow, Ed 299
Mussolini, Benito 15, 35, 223, 300
Nash, Kathleen 229
National Labour Front 47, 48, 52
Nazi propaganda 47–8
Neumann, Anna 33
neutrality 122
New Zealand 65, 113
Nicolson, Harold 12, 71, 96, 300–1
Nixon, Richard 319
NKVD 106
Normanton, Helena 28
Noyes, Newbold 14–15
Nuremberg Trials 228
Nype, Russell 273–5
Oakes, Nancy 192, 197, 202, 205
Oakes, Sir Harry 143–4, 191–207
Odo, Revd Dom 160–1, 344
Ogilvie-Forbes, Sir George 47, 50–1
Ogilvy, Bruce 268
Onassis, Aristotle 359
Onassis, Jackie 257, 329
Operation Belvedere 260
Operation Cleopatra Whim 120
Operation Willi 117–31, 167, 358
Orient-Express 25, 33
Oursler, Fulton 144–5, 151
pacifism 36, 130
Page, Eddie 269
Page, Russell 287
Palmer, Arnold 286
Palmer, Lilli 277–9
Parker, John 66
Patten, Susan 239, 240
Patton, Gen. George S. 231
Paul, Maury 273
Peacock, Sir Edward 154, 305
Peake, Charles 95, 150
Pearl Harbor 164, 187
Peck, John 121
Pegler, Westbrook 274
Pell, Herbert 122
Pemberton, Maj. Herbert 192
Perkins, C.A. 172
Perkins, Dr Ralph 221
Pétain, Philippe 100, 124, 186, 354
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 261, 261–2, 285, 312, 322–3, 327, 334–5, 335
marriage of 251
Philipp, Prince of Hesse 62, 231
Phillips, Gray 103, 111–12, 133, 191, 288
Phillips, Wallace B. 172
Philpotts, Alan 304
Phipps, Sir Eric 43, 56, 71
Phoney War 85–101, 162
Pinaudier (chef) 70
Plantagenet, House of 25
Pleven, René 282
Pookie (dog) 272, 291, 333
Pope-Hennessy, James 302–4
Portago, Marquesa de 288
Porter, Cole 252
Portugal 111–12, 118–19, 125, 129–30, 161, 186, 223, 226, 247, 292, 301, 368
300th celebrations 105–6
Post, Marjorie Merriweather 252
Pownall, Henry 91
Price, Douglas 232
Pringle, John 182
Privy Council 17
‘The Project’ 168
The Project 168
protocol 9, 71, 110, 178, 217, 247, 249, 277, 279, 289
Prsini, Princess 213
Prussia 62, 229
public image 34, 299
Puerto Rico 149–50
Putlitz, Wolfgang zu 98
Pye, Michael 182
Quackenbush, Dr Hugh 192
Quakers 123, 124
Queen Mother 301, 303
as queen consort, see Elizabeth, Queen
Wallis meets 311–12, 319–21, 332–3
Queenborough, Lord 17
RAF Benson 319–20, 334
Raffray, Mary 22, 53
Red Cross 94, 110, 170
refugees 106, 119, 161, 215
Reith, Sir John 3
Renner, Bettie 204
Rhodesia 174
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 11, 15, 16, 28, 39, 41, 47, 48, 97, 110, 112, 118–19, 124–6, 128–31, 138–9, 142, 161, 185, 213–14, 2
21–5, 232, 355
Richardson, John 281, 351
Rivera, Miguel Primo de 125, 127, 128–31
Roberts, Cecil 250–1
Robinson, Kenneth 150
Rogers, Herman 4, 21–3, 30, 187, 262–3, 298
Rogers, Katherine 4, 22, 30, 186–7, 262
Roland, Claude 331
Romanones, Countess Aline of 322–3, 325, 333–5, 349
Roosevelt, Eleanor 53
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (‘FDR’) 53, 138, 140, 142, 144–5, 153, 171, 175, 216, 300
Rose, Kenneth 327, 335, 358
Rothschild, Baron Eugene 11, 13, 30
Rothschild, Baron Maurice de 185
Rothschild, Kitty 11, 13–14, 16, 20, 30
Rothschild, Victor 356
Route du Champ d’Entraînement 290–2, 332
Rowan, Louis 213
Royal Air Force (RAF) 112, 158, 168, 179–80, 192, 319–20, 334
Royal Archives 327, 355
Royal Lodge 2, 4
Royal Tours 160
Germany (1937) 47–57, 66
United States (1937) 53–6
Runcie, Robert 335
Russell, Alison 175
Russell, Peter 117
St George’s Chapel 290, 312, 320–2, 334
Salazar, António de Oliveira 130
Salis, Capt. John de 91
Sandringham 1, 18, 19, 104, 285
Sanègre, Georges 241, 333
Sanègre, Ophelia 276, 333
Sargent, Orme 16
Sassoon, Siegfried 62
Schacht, Hjalmar 35
Schafranek, Karl 75
Schellenberg, Walter 126–7, 225, 294
Schindler, Raymond 202, 205
Schlee, George 278–9
Schlesinger, John 348
Schloss Enzesfeld 11–20
Schmidt, Paul 51
Schultz, Joanna 333
Schumann, Maurice 319
Scoppa, Renato Bova 128
Scotland Yard 10, 33, 38, 192, 203, 205, 245
Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert 1
Seagrim, Anne 267, 304
Seal, Eric 115
Sears, Capt. Edward 198
Sebastian, Georges 72
‘Second Abdication’ 219
Second World War 329
Allied War Council 97–8
Britain enters 84
countdown to 75–84
France invaded 98–101
Phoney War 85–101
US enters 164–5, 187
VJ Day 224
war relief 159, 160
Seely family
Sefton, Hugh (‘Foxy’) 265, 268, 331
Selby, Lady 29
Selby, Sir Walford 13–14, 29, 43
Selous, Gerald 185
sexuality 62–3, 112, 267–71, 281, 295
SHAEF 222, 231, 292
Shanley, Oonagh 318
Shaw, George Bernard 60
Sigrist, Frederick 135, 180
Silva, Dr Ricardo de Espiritu Santo e 112, 117–18, 122, 129–30, 133, 225–6, 235
Silverberg, Capt. David 221
Simpson, Ernest 8, 15, 22, 53, 119, 297, 327
Simpson, Wallis Warfield, see Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
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