72. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 234.
73. Philip Ziegler, George VI: The Dutiful King (London: Allen Lane, 2014), 43.
74. Brendon, Edward VIII, 69.
75. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 288.
76. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 377.
77. Norwich, interview.
78. Channon, Chips, 158.
79. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 291.
80. Ibid.
81. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 575.
82. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 306.
83. Ibid., 312.
84. Ibid., 311.
85. Buckle, Self-Portrait, 51.
86. David Nasaw, New York Times, March 11, 1996.
87. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 314.
88. Ibid., 314–15.
89. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 315.
90. Ibid.
91. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 318.
92. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 325.
93. Ibid., 326.
94. Ibid., 327.
95. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 319.
96. Ibid., 319–20.
97. Ibid., 336.
98. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 337.
99. Obituary, Daily Telegraph, January 27, 2001.
100. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 321.
101. Ibid.
9: UNTITLED
1. Buckle, Self-Portrait, 51–54.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 129.
7. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 321.
8. Ibid., 322–23.
9. Ibid., 322.
10. Sebba, That Woman, 200.
11. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 42.
12. The Jewels of the Duchess of Windsor (Geneva: Sotheby’s, 1987), 80.
13. Mainbocher by Main Bocher, Harper’s Bazaar, January 1938, 102–3.
14. Buckle, Self-Portrait, 56.
15. Ibid.
16. Sebba, That Woman, 206.
17. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 314.
18. Ibid.
19. Obituary, Daily Telegraph, January 27, 2001.
20. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 243.
21. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 355.
22. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 324.
23. Thornton, Royal Feud, 165.
24. Ibid.
25. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 324.
26. Thornton, Royal Feud, 165.
27. Ibid.
28. Bloch, Wallis and Edward: Letters, 276.
29. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 138.
30. Ibid.
31. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 324.
32. Haslam, interview.
33. Norwich, interview.
34. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 8.
35. Thornton, Royal Feud, 165–66.
36. Obituary, Daily Telegraph, January 27, 2001.
37. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 315.
38. Ibid.
39. Sebba, That Woman, 210.
40. Buckle, Self-Portrait, 55.
41. Ibid.
42. Sebba, That Woman, 206.
43. Ibid.
44. Buckle, Self-Portrait, 55.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 136.
48. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 586.
49. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 243.
50. Thornton, Royal Feud, 167.
51. Buckle, Self-Portrait, 56.
52. Sebba, That Woman, 207.
53. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 317–18.
54. Ibid., 318.
55. Thornton, Royal Feud, 167.
56. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 318.
57. Ibid.
58. Ibid., 318–19.
59. Thornton, Royal Feud, 166.
60. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 139.
61. Norwich, interview.
62. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 139.
63. Sebba, That Woman, 210.
64. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 364–65.
65. Channon, Chips, 163–64.
66. Ibid., 164.
67. Ibid., 163–64.
68. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 324.
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid.
71. Ibid., 325.
72. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 320.
73. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 325.
74. Pope-Hennessy, Quest for Queen Mary, 284.
75. Sebba, That Woman, 213.
76. Ibid., 212.
77. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 367.
78. Sebba, That Woman, 213.
79. Ibid.
80. Gore Vidal, Palimpsest: A Memoir (New York: Random House, 1995), 206.
10: THE TWILIGHT ZONE
1. Sebba, That Woman, 215–16.
2. Duke of Windsor, King’s Story, 279.
3. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 386.
4. Brendon, Edward VIII, 72–73.
5. Sebba, That Woman, 216–17.
6. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 333.
7. Ibid.
8. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 391.
9. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 140.
10. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 323.
11. Ibid.
12. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 393.
13. New York Times, November 7, 1937, and October 10, 1937.
14. Nasaw, New York Times, March 11, 1996.
15. Sebba, That Woman, 219.
16. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 337.
17. Michael Bloch, The Duke of Windsor’s War (London: Little Brown, 2012), 97.
18. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 339.
19. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 386.
20. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 153.
21. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 343.
22. Thierry Coudert, Beautiful People of the Café Society: Scrapbooks by the Baron de Cabrol (Paris: Flammarion, 2016), 215.
23. Maxwell, I Married, 249.
24. Coudert, Beautiful People, 222–23.
25. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 369.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., 369–70.
28. Ibid.
29. Thornton, Royal Feud, 182.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid., 210.
33. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 340.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid., 341.
36. Ibid.
37. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 142–43.
38. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 371.
39. Ibid., 375.
40. Vickers, interview.
41. Sebba, That Woman, 223.
42. Ibid., 224.
43. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 153.
44. Ibid.
45. Brendon, Edward VIII, 76.
46. Duchess of Windsor. Heart Has Its Reasons, 345–46.
47. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 346.
48. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 402.
49. Ibid., 403.
50. Ibid.
51. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 275.
52. Sebba, That Woman, 226.
53. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 350.
54. Ibid., 351.
55. Ibid.
56. Mollie Panter-Downes, London War Notes, ed. William Shawn (London: Longman, 1972), 11.
57. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 404.
58. Panter-Downes, London War Notes, 11.
59. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 405.
60. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 352.
61. Ibid.
62. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 279.
63. Ibid., 280.
64. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 352.
65. Ziegler, Edwar
d VIII, 408.
66. Brendon, Edward VIII, 77.
67. Anne Sebba, Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016), 5.
68. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 228.
69. Ibid., 357.
70. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 411.
71. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 357.
72. Brendon, Edward VIII, 78.
73. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 416.
74. Ibid., 417.
75. Ibid.
76. Ibid., 418.
77. Sebba, Les Parisiennes, 41.
78. Brendon, Edward VIII, 79.
79. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 365.
80. Ibid., 365–66.
81. Norwich, interview.
82. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 370.
83. Hugo Vickers, “The Crown: What to Believe and What Is Make-Believe,” Times (UK), December 11, 2017.
84. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 370.
85. Ibid.
86. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 330.
87. Ibid.
88. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 427.
11: A SHADOW KING
1. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 374.
2. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 429.
3. “The Duke of Windsor’s 1940 Bermuda Detour,” Bernews.com, May 2013.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Sir Orville Turnquest, What Manner of Man Is This? The Duke of Windsor’s Years in the Bahamas (Nassau, the Bahamas: Grant’s Town Press, 2016), xx.
7. See “Duke of Windsor Takes the Oath,” 1940, historical video clip, 1:29, British Pathé online, www.britishpathe.com/video/duke-of-windsor-takes-the-the-oath.
8. Turnquest, What Manner of Man, 136.
9. Norwich, interview.
10. Julie Le Corne, interview with author, London, August 2017.
11. Turnquest, What Manner of Man, 54.
12. Thornton, Royal Feud, 215.
13. Ibid.
14. Ann Pleydell-Bouverie, interview with author, Gstaad, Switzerland, February 2017.
15. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 165.
16. Le Corne interview.
17. Sebba, That Woman, 238.
18. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 460.
19. Sebba, That Woman, 240.
20. Brendon, Edward VIII, 87.
21. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 461.
22. Sebba, That Woman, 241.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Thornton, Royal Feud, 220.
26. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 466.
27. Ibid., 467.
28. Thornton, Royal Feud, 221.
29. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 468.
30. Thornton, Royal Feud, 221.
31. Sebba, That Woman, 243.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid., 245.
34. Ibid., 249.
35. Ibid.
36. Brendon, Edward VIII, 89.
37. Turnquest, What Manner of Man, 133.
38. Ibid.
39. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 382.
40. Ibid., 383.
41. Ibid., 382.
42. Ibid., 387.
43. Ibid., 387–88.
44. Ibid., 388.
45. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 487.
46. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 335.
47. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 388.
48. Vickers, interview.
49. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 485.
50. Thornton, Royal Feud, 225.
51. Channon, Chips, 438.
52. Dorothy Wilding, The Pursuit of Perfection (London: National Portrait Gallery, 1991), 24–25.
53. Thornton, Royal Feud, 226.
54. Ibid., 226–27.
55. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 337.
56. Thornton, Royal Feud, 227.
57. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 488.
12: SON ALTESSE ROYALE
1. Blackwood, Last of the Duchess, 270.
2. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 500.
3. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 614.
4. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 501.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., 500.
7. Ibid., 501.
8. Ibid., 507.
9. Rose, Who’s In, Who’s Out, 558.
10. Schönburg, interview.
11. Emerson, Riviera Dreaming, 85.
12. Norwich, Duff Cooper Diaries, 390.
13. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 509.
14. Norwich, interview.
15. Coudert, Beautiful People, 63.
16. Vidal, Palimpsest, 205–6.
17. Sebba, Les Parisiennes, 384.
18. Blackwood, Last of the Duchess, 246.
19. Ibid.
20. Coudert, Beautiful People, 222.
21. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 188.
22. “A Cut Above: Stylist to the Stars Dies,” Independent (UK), January 14, 2008, www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/a-cut-above-stylist-to-the-stars-dies-769905.html.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 511.
26. Coudert, Beautiful People, 222.
27. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 339.
28. Blackwood, Last of the Duchess, 100.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid., 101.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid., 258.
33. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 513.
34. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 615.
35. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 529.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid., 529–30.
38. Ibid., 530.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid., 531.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid., 532.
43. Ibid.
44. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 420–21.
45. Norwich, Duff Cooper Diaries, 467.
46. Duchess of Windsor to Lady Mendl, September 24, 1948.
47. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 518.
48. Maud-Roxby, interview.
49. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 533.
50. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 341.
51. Ibid., 343.
52. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 519.
53. Blackwood, Last of the Duchess, 251.
54. Ibid., 252
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid., 252–53.
57. Ibid., 261.
58. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 350.
59. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 187.
60. Maxwell, I Married, 259.
61. Schönburg, interview.
62. Norwich, interview.
63. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 534.
64. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 175.
65. Vreeland, DV, 68.
66. Ibid.
67. Schönburg, interview.
68. Pope-Hennessy, Quest for Queen Mary, 278–79.
69. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 333.
70. Norwich, interview.
71. Vreeland, DV, 72
72. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 439.
73. Thornton, Royal Feud, 250.
74. Ibid., 256.
75. Ibid.
76. Ibid., 250.
77. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 537.
78. Ibid.
79. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 345.
80. Burgess, Behind Palace Doors, 80.
81. Blackwood, Last of the Duchess, 249.
82. Brendon, Edward VIII, 98.
83. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 538.
84. Pope-Hennessy, Quest for Queen Mary, 290.
85. Ibid., 199.
86. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 539.
87. Ibid.
88. Ibid., 540.
89. Norwich, interview.
13: MY DAVID
1. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 355.
2. Jonathan Dimbleby, The Prince of Wales: A Biography (New York: William Morrow, 1994), 178.
3. Times (UK), December 1, 1958.
4. Sch�
�nburg, interview.
5. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 357–58.
6. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 398.
7. Diana Cooper, Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich 1939–1952 (New York: Overlook Press, 2014), 442.
8. Ziegler, Edward VIII, 555.
9. Schönburg, interview.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Nicolas Foulkes, The Marbella Club (London: Random House, 2014), 129.
13. Schönburg, interview.
14. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 359.
15. “Windsor in ‘Excellent’ Condition After Surgery Lasting One Hour,” New York Times, December 17, 1964.
16. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 198.
17. Thornton, Royal Feud, 299.
18. Ibid., 300.
19. Ibid.
20. Vickers, interview.
21. Thornton, Royal Feud, 302–3.
22. Rose, Who’s In, Who’s Out, 382.
23. Ibid., 383.
24. Ibid., 384.
25. Dimbleby, Prince of Wales, 178.
26. Ibid., 178–79.
27. Ibid.
28. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 201.
29. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 19.
30. Ibid.
31. Thornton, Royal Feud, 316.
32. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 22.
33. Thornton, Royal Feud, 319.
34. Ibid.
35. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 201.
36. Evening News London, May 29, 1972.
37. Vickers, interview.
38. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 207.
39. Times (UK) and Daily Telegraph, June 3, 1972.
40. Thornton, Royal Feud, 325.
41. Dimbleby, Prince of Wales, 180.
42. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 30.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid., 32.
45. Ibid., 33.
46. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 207.
47. Email to author from Lady Pamela Hicks, August 21, 2017.
48. Blackwood, Last of the Duchess, 30.
49. Mosley, Duchess of Windsor, 207.
50. Vreeland, DV, 68.
51. Ibid.
52. Vidal, Palimpsest, 206–7.
53. Vickers, interview.
54. Blackwood, Last of the Duchess, 38.
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid., 19.
57. Ibid., 38–39.
58. Ibid., 18–19.
59. Ibid., 258.
60. Vidal, Palimpsest, 207.
61. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 190.
62. Dimbleby, Prince of Wales, 180.
63. Norwich, interview.
64. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 192.
65. Ibid., 193.
66. Vickers, interview.
67. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, 198.
68. Michael Thornton, “Did Mrs. Simpson Ever Truly Love the King Who Gave Up His Throne for Her?,” London Daily Mail, April 8, 2017.
69. Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ode to Memory,” 1830.
EPILOGUE: THE CEDAR WALK
1. Duchess of Windsor, Heart Has Its Reasons, 190.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Diana Mosley, interview by Russell Harty, All About Books, BBC 1, June 26, 1980, www.bbc.co.uk/archive/edward_viii/12928.shtml.
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