The Duchess Of Windsor by Greg King Page B

53-54.
    Ibid., 54.
    Ibid., 54.
    Ibid., 54.
    Baltimore News-Post , 1 October 1936.
    WW, 55.
    Baltimore News-Post , 16 September 1916.
    Wilson, 61.
    WW, 55.
    Ibid., 56.
    Ibid., 56.
    Ibid., 56.
    Beirne, 120.
    WW, 56.
    Ibid., 56.
    Ibid., 61.
    Ibid., 61–62.
    Chapter 5
     
    WW, 63.
     
    Ibid., 63.
    Ibid., 64–65.
    Ibid., 65.
    Ibid., 65.
    Ibid., 66.
    Ibid., 67.
    Ibid., 66–67.
    Ibid., 67–68.
    Ibid., 68.
    Ibid., 68.
    Ibid., 69.
    Ibid., 70.
    Ibid., 71.
    Ibid., 71.
    Ibid., 71.
    Ibid., 71-72.
    Bryan and Murphy, 25.
    WW, 72.
    Ibid., 73-74.
    Ibid., 73.
    Private Information.
    WW, 75.
    Ibid., 75–76.
    Ibid., 76.
    Ibid., 76.
    Ibid., 77-78.
    Ibid., 51.
    Ibid., 79.
    Ibid., 80.
    Ibid., 80.
    Ibid., 86.
    Ibid., 87-88.
    Ibid., 89.
    Ibid., 89.
    Ibid., 90.
    Ibid., 82.
    Chapter 6
     
    WW, 93.
     
    Higham, 44–45.
    WW, 93.
    Ibid., 94.
    Cole, 31.
    Ibid., 28.
    WW, 94.
    This sequence of events differs slightly from that given by Wallis, between pages 94–95 in her book, and is based on information given to me privately in an interview with one of the Duchess’s friends.
    Higham, 48–49.
    Information from the Countess of Romanones to author.
    Parker, King of Fools , 4.
    Ziegler, 195.
    Higham, 49.
    Ibid., 52.
    WW, 95.
    Private information.
    Cole, 40.
    WW, 96–97.
    Ibid., 96-99.
    The Sunday People , London, 6 May 1973.
    WW, 101–102.
    Ibid., 102.
    Fowler, 190.
    WW, 103.
    Abend, 96–97.
    WW, 104.
    Ibid., 104-105.
    WW, 108–109.
    Ibid., 109-110.
    Bryan and Murphy, 38.
    WW, 112.
    Chapter 7
     
    WW, 113.
     
    Information from Dame Barbara Cartland to author.
    Amory, Who Killed Society? 238.
    WW, 119.
    Ibid., 123.
    Bryan and Murphy, 42.
    Baltimore News, 28 October 1927.
    Bryan and Murphy, 42; WW, 124-26.
    Bryan and Murphy, 42; WW, 126.
    Quoted in Martin, 130–31.
    Associated Press article, 17 October 1936.
    Bloch, Letters , 20-21.
    WW, 127.
    Ibid., 127.
    Ibid., 128.
    Ibid., 128–29.
    Ibid., 131.
    Information from Dame Barbara Cartland to author.
    WW, 133.
    Ibid., 134.
    Ibid., 136.
    Bloch, Letters , 24.
    WW, 135-36.
    Ibid., 137.
    Information from Dame Barbara Cartland to author.
    WW, 138–40.
    Ibid., 140–41.
    Ibid., 141–42.
    Ibid., 144.
    Ibid., 145.
    Ibid., 145–46.
    Ibid., 147.
    Ibid., 146–47.
    Ibid., 149.
    Ibid., 149–50.
    Beaton, Self Portrait , 47.
    Goldsmith, 153.
    Bloch, Letters , 46.
    For further information, see Mooney, Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White: Love and Death in the Gilded Age.
    Vanderbilt and Furness, 287–88.
    Chapter 8
     
    Bradford, Reluctant King , 10.
     
    Cited, Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 32.
    Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 77.
    Ibid., 230.
    David, 27.
    Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary , 242.
    Cited, Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 262.
    Ibid.
    Ibid., 426.
    Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 28 June 1894.
    Duff, Queen Mary , 127.
    Cited, Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 391.
    Quoted, Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary , 299.
    Donaldson, 25.
    Rose, King George V, 58.
    Pope-Hennessy, A Lonely Business, 219.
    David, 28.
    Ibid., 26.
    Churchill, Lord Derby , 159.
    See Donaldson, 22–24, for further discussion of this infamous quotation.
    Lees-Milne, 230, 235.
    Pope-Hennessy, A Lonely Business, 214.
    Gore, 368.
    David, 28.
    Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 391.
    David, 11.
    Ibid., 13.
    Parkhurst, 24-25.
    Nicolson, George V , 86–87.
    David, 9.
    Quoted, Bradford, Elizabeth , 15.
    Cited, Ziegler, 26.
    New Yorker , 3 October 1941.
    David, 62.
    Ibid., 81.
    Getty, 81.
    Ziegler, 51.
    David, 111.
    Bolitho, Edward VIII, 72.
    Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, 514.
    Quoted in Brendon and Whitehead, The Windsors, 29.
    Most famously, on 21 April 1917, H. G. Wells, in a letter which appeared in the Times , declared that the time had come to rid England of “the ancient trappings of throne and sceptre.” He said the country was struggling under the influence of “an alien and uninspiring court.” Hearing this, George V fumed, “I may be uninspiring, but I’ll be damned if I’m alien.” Nicolson, George V, 403.
    Nicolson, George V , 405.
    At the same time, the German