The Real Wallis Simpson: A New History of the American Divorcée Who Became the Duchess of Windsor
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11. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 265.
12. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 240–41.
13. Ibid., 240.
14. Lelyveld, Joseph, “1936 Secret Is Out—Doctor Sped George V’s Death,” New York Times, November 28, 1986.
15. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 266.
16. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 241.
17. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 236.
18. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 241.
19. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 268.
20. Ibid., 267–68.
21. Channon, Chips, 71.
22. Ibid., 71–72.
23. Norwich, Duff Cooper Diaries, 226.
24. Norwich, interview.
25. Norwich, Duff Cooper Diaries, 226.
26. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 189.
27. Ibid., 190.
28. Brendon, Edward VIII, 48.
29. Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII: The Road to Abdication (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974), 97.
30. Channon, Chips, 74.
31. Evans, Queen Bees, 232.
32. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 247.
33. Ibid.
34. Norwich, Duff Cooper Diaries, 227.
35. Ibid., 228.
36. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 297.
37. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 190.
38. Channon, Chips, 78.
39. Brendon, Edward VIII, 49.
40. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, ed. A. J. P. Taylor (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966), 20.
41. Duke and Duchess of Windsor, interview by Harris.
42. Lord Beaverbrook, Abdication of Edward VIII, 14.
43. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 239.
44. Norwich, interview.
45. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 275–76.
46. Ibid., 276.
47. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 250.
48. Ibid.
49. Brendon, Edward VIII, 53.
50. Donaldson, Road to Abdication, 98.
51. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 187.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid., 191.
55. Ibid., 76.
56. Ibid., 189.
57. Ibid., 192.
58. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 239–40.
59. Sebba, That Woman, 128.
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid.
62. Donaldson, Road to Abdication, 103.
63. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 216.
64. Sebba, That Woman, 182.
65. Ibid., 125.
66. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 274.
67. Philip Ziegler, Diana Cooper (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981), 176.
68. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 274.
69. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 211.
70. Ibid., 213.
71. Ibid., 212.
72. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 243.
73. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 243.
74. Ibid.
75. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 244.
76. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 89.
77. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 242.
78. Ibid.
79. Thornton, Royal Feud, 95.
80. Ibid.
81. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 242–43.
82. Thornton, Royal Feud, 95.
83. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 85–86.
84. Ibid., 86.
85. Ibid.
86. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 214.
87. Ibid.
88. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 297.
89. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 221.
90. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 281.
91. Channon, Chips, 89.
5: DOWN WITH THE AMERICAN HARLOT
1. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 263.
2. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 565.
3. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 263–64.
4. Brendon, Edward VIII, 56–57.
5. “Edward VIII’s Coronation Portrait Uncovered,” Daily Telegraph, December 9, 2011.
6. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 566.
7. Ibid., 567.
8. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 309.
9. Emerson, Riviera Dreaming, 72.
10. Sebba, That Woman, 135.
11. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 229.
12. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 282.
13. Norwich, interview.
14. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 248.
15. Cooper, Autobiography, 411.
16. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 283.
17. Norwich, interview.
18. Cooper, Autobiography, 411.
19. Ibid., 421.
20. Ibid., 420.
21. Ibid.
22. Ziegler, Diana Cooper, 177.
23. Ibid., 177–78.
24. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 251.
25. Maxwell, I Married, 244–45.
26. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 286.
27. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 568.
28. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 314.
29. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 253.
30. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 234–35.
31. Vickers, interview.
32. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 233.
33. Ibid., 236.
34. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 315.
35. Ibid.
36. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 220.
37. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 288.
38. Thornton, Royal Feud, 99.
39. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 239.
40. Ibid.
41. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 288.
42. Thornton, Royal Feud, 113.
43. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 288.
44. Buckle, Self-Portrait, 54.
45. Ibid., 48.
46. Ibid.
47. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 316.
48. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 221–22.
49. Ibid., 223.
50. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 241.
51. Ibid., 240.
52. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 317.
53. Ibid.
54. Lord Beaverbrook, Abdication of King Edward VIII, 30–31.
55. Brendon, Edward VIII, 59.
56. Lord Beaverbrook, Abdication of King Edward VIII, 33.
57. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 243.
58. Ibid., 236.
59. Donaldson, Road to Abdication, 116.
60. Ibid.
61. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 293.
62. Donaldson, Road to Abdication, 117.
63. Lord Beaverbrook, Abdication of King Edward VIII, 14.
64. Ibid., 26.
65. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 320.
66. Ibid., 320–21.
67. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 293.
68. Thornton, Royal Feud, 116.
6: OCEANS OF AGONY
1. Thornton, Royal Feud, 116.
2. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 258.
3. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 321.
4. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 260.
5. Channon, Chips, 99.
6. Buckle, Self-Portrait, 48–50.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Vreeland, DV, 69.
10. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 322.
11. Ibid., 326.
12. Donaldson, Road to Abdication, 119.
13. Channon, Chips, 101.
14. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 270.
15. Donaldson, Road to Abdication, 119.
16. Ibid., 119–21.
17. Maude-Roxby, interview.
18. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 326.
19. Evans, Queen Bees, 249.
20. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 248–49.
21. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 260.
22. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 327.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., 327–28.
25. Ibid., 328.
26. Ibid., 329.
27. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 261.
28. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 329.
29. Ibid., 330.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 263–64.
33. Ibid., 264.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid., 265.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 331.
41. Ibid.
42. Donaldson, Road to Abdication, 129.
43. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 332.
44. Ibid., 332–33.
45. Ibid., 332.
46. Ibid., 204.
47. Ibid., 205.
48. Ibid., 332.
49. Kenneth Rose, Who’s In, Who’s Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: vol. one, 1944–1979, Ed. D. R. Thorpe (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018), 383.
50. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 332.
51. Sebba, That Woman, 156.
52. Donaldson, Road to Abdication, 130.
53. Norwich, Duff Cooper Diaries, 229.
54. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 266.
55. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 333.
56. Thornton, Royal Feud, 120.
57. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 333.
58. Thornton, Royal Feud, 120.
59. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 334.
60. Pope-Hennessy, Quest for Queen Mary, 306.
61. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 334.
62. Ibid., 334–35.
63. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 103.
64. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 576.
65. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 335–36.
66. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 224–25.
67. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 300.
68. Norwich, Duff Cooper Diaries, 230.
69. Ibid.
70. Norwich, interview.
71. Norwich, Duff Cooper Diaries, 230.
72. Ibid.
73. Norwich, interview.
74. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 340.
75. Ibid.
76. Norwich, Duff Cooper Diaries, 231.
77. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 576.
78. Channon, Chips, 103.
79. Ibid., 104.
80. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 336.
7: THE LAST HOUR
1. See “The King in South Wales,” 1936, historical video clip, 3:30, British Pathé online, www.britishpathe.com/video/the-king-in-south-wales.
2. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 338.
3. Duke and Duchess of Windsor, interview by Harris.
4. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 301.
5. Ibid., 302.
6. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 105–6.
7. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 267.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Williams, “Vilification of Wallis Simpson.”
11. Thornton, Royal Feud, 121.
12. Channon, Chips, 105.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid., 106.
15. Norwich, Duff Cooper Diaries, 232.
16. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 225.
17. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 268.
18. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 341–42.
19. Ibid., 342.
20. Channon, Chips, 108.
21. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 302.
22. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 269.
23. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 303.
24. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 344.
25. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 304.
26. Ibid.
27. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 346.
28. Lord Beaverbrook, Abdication of King Edward VIII, 61.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 270.
32. Ibid.
33. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 226.
34. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 271.
35. Ibid., 270–71.
36. Pope-Hennessy, Quest for Queen Mary, 200.
37. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 273.
38. Channon, Chips, 111.
39. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 254–55.
40. Ibid.
41. Donaldson, Road to Abdication, 142.
42. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 355.
43. Ibid., 354.
44. Ibid., 355.
45. Ibid.
46. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 273.
47. Ibid., 273–74.
48. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 356.
49. Ibid., 355.
50. Lord Beaverbrook, Abdication of King Edward VIII, 67.
51. Ibid., 68.
52. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 274.
53. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 358.
54. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 274.
55. Ibid., 275.
56. Vreeland, DV, 72.
57. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 308.
58. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 361.
59. Channon, Chips, 114.
60. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 310.
61. Ibid.
62. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 362.
63. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 276.
64. Ibid.
65. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 362.
66. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 276.
67. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 310.
68. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 364.
69. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 257.
70. Williams, “Vilification of Wallis Simpson.”
71. Channon, Chips, 115.
72. Ibid., 114–15.
73. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 115.
74. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 578.
75. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 365.
76. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 578.
77. Ibid., 128.
78. Vreeland, DV, 73.
79. Ibid.
80. Ibid., 74.
81. “How His Majesty’s Secret Service Spied.”
82. Vreeland, DV, 74
83. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 283.
84. Ibid., 284.
85. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 113–14.
86. Brendon, Edward VIII, 61.
87. Penelope Middleboe, ed., Edith Olivier: From Her Journals 1924–48 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989), 187.
88. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 315.
89. Ibid., 317.
90. Ibid.
91. Ibid.
92. Sonia Purnell, First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill (London: Aurum Press, 2015), 194.
93. Ibid., 194.
94. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 371.
95. Brendon, Edward VIII, 64.
96. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 384.
97. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 330.
98. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 293.
99. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 262.
100. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 294.
101. Ibid., 295.
102. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 395.
103. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 296.
104. Ibid.
105. Ibid., 297.
106. Ibid.
107. Ibid., 298.
108. Donaldson, Road to Abdication, 156.
109. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 300.
110. Ibid.
111. Ibid.
112. Ibid., 301.
113. Ibid.
8: THE FURY
1. Duk
e of Windsor, King’s Story, 398.
2. Donaldson, Road to Abdication, 156.
3. Channon, Chips, 122.
4. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 190.
5. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 264.
6. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 402.
7. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 579.
8. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 405.
9. Ibid.
10. Sebba, That Woman, 185.
11. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 406–7.
12. Williams, “Vilification of Wallis Simpson.”
13. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 304.
14. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 580.
15. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 408.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 325.
19. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 65.
20. Ibid., 409.
21. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 302.
22. Ibid.
23. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 410.
24. Ibid.
25. Channon, Chips, 131.
26. Thornton, Royal Feud, 130.
27. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 231.
28. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 410.
29. Ibid., 411.
30. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 302.
31. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 411.
32. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 302.
33. Channon, Chips, 126–27.
34. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 581.
35. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 412.
36. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 581.
37. Channon, Chips, 131.
38. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 412.
39. Channon, Chips, 131.
40. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 413.
41. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 304–5.
42. Thornton, Royal Feud, 131.
43. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 338.
44. Ibid., 333.
45. Ibid., 338.
46. Channon, Chips, 129.
47. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 304.
48. Ibid., 305.
49. Ibid., 306.
50. Ibid.
51. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 274–75.
52. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 303.
53. Vreeland, DV, 75.
54. Ibid., 74–75.
55. Ibid., 73.
56. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 278–79.
57. Ibid., 270–71.
58. Ibid., 277.
59. Emerson, Riviera Dreaming, 27.
60. Sebba, That Woman, 185.
61. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 307.
62. Ibid.
63. Wilson, Her Name Was Wallis Warfield, 89.
64. Sebba, That Woman, 192.
65. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 352.
66. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 312.
67. Ibid., 313.
68. Norwich, interview.
69. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 8.
70. Pope-Hennessy, Quest for Queen Mary, 289.
71. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 8.