34.
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 280
35.
Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward, 22 December 1918,
Letters from a Prince,
p. 147
36.
Harold Macmillan,
Winds of Change,
p. 100
37.
Geotdie Greig,
Louis and the Prince,
pp. 87-90
38.
Philip Ziegler,
King Edward
VIII,
p. 64
39.
Quoted in Sarah Bradford,
King George
VI,
p. 61
40.
Sir Almeric Fitzroy,
Memoirs,
Vol. II, pp. 802-3
41.
The Prince of Wales in North Wales,
Pathe Gazette newsreel, n.d.
42.
William Coates to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 9
43.
F. J. Corbitt,
Fit For a King,
pp. 202-4
44.
John W. Wheeler-Bennett,
King George
VI,
pp. 160-61
45.
Margaret Brasnett,
Voluntary Social Action,
p. 76
46.
South Wales Argus,
19 November 1936
47.
Ibid.
48.
Hansard,
20 November 1934
49.
Letter from Portsmouth to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/ GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
50.
Quoted in Dave Colledge,
Labour Camps,
p. 19
51.
South Wales Argus,
19 November 1936
52.
Western Mail & South Wales News,
20 November 1936
53.
South Wales Argus,
19 November 1936
54.
John Rowland to Kingsley Wood, 20 November, PRO, MH 58/309
55.
W. F. Deedes,
Dear Bill,
p. 40
56.
Daily Mirror,
28 November 1936
57.
Daily Mail,
23 November 1936
58.
Ibid.
59.
New Statesman and Nation,
5 December 1936, p. 880
60.
Quoted in Compton Mackenzie,
The Windsor Tapestry,
p. 453
61.
E. E. Chapman and H. Lavers to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
62.
Elsie M. Hayward to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 3
63.
'Foreign Comment',
Literary Digest,
28 November 1936
64.
Diary of Ramsay MacDonald, 21 November 1936, PRO, PRO 30/69, 1753
65.
Quoted in Philip Guedalla,
The Hundredth Year,
p. 276
66.
Ross McKibbin,
Classes and Cultures
, p. 3
67.
Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
p. 97
68.
Entry for 23 November 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
69.
The Times,
24 November 1936
70.
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 338
72.
Interview with Mr John Lawrence ofPenarth, 1986, in
The Experience of the Depression in Wales,
p. 42(b)
73.
A 'wife and mother' to the
Daily Mirror,
5 December 1936
74.
Western Mail & South Wales News,
20 November 1936
75.
According to J. C. C. Davidson: see Robert Rhodes James,
Memoirs of a Conservative,
p. 410
76.
Clement Attlee, As
It Happened,
p. 85
77.
H. Montgomery Hyde,
Neville Chamberlain,
pp. 83-4
78.
Entry for 12 November 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
79.
Ellen Wilkinson,
Peeps at Politicians,
p. 99
80.
Harold Macmillan,
Winds of Change,
pp. 92, 101
81.
Mrs F. Howe & family to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/ GVI/ABD, Box 3
82.
Anonymous to King Edward VIII, 6 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
83.
Yvonne Arthur to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 1
84.
Vera Brittain,
Testament of Experience,
p. 162
85.
C. H. Rolph,
Kingsley,
p. 252
86.
Walter Welsh to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
87.
K. (Mrs Philip) Hendy to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/ GVI/ABD, Box 1
88.
Mrs Greta Tench to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 4
89.
Daily Mirror,
28 November 1936
90.
Western Mail & South Wales News,
20 November, 1936
91.
A. Blacklock to F. N. Tribe, 27 November [1936], PRO, LAB 23/146
92.
F. N. Tribe to T. S. Chegwidden, 2 December 1936, PRO, LAB 23/146
93.
Geoffrey Dawson, Private diary, 1 December 1936, MS Dawson 40
94.
F. N. Tribe to A. Blacklock, 30 November 1936, PRO, LAB 23/146
95.
John Grigg, 'Edward VIII', p. 337
96.
Jarrow Crusade,
British Movietone newsreel, 8 October 1936
97.
]arrow Marchers,
British Movietone newsreel, 2 November 1936
98.
Quoted in W. F. Deedes,
Dear Bill,
pp. 39-40
'King to marry Wally'
x. Diary entry, 4 December 1936,
Parliament and Politics .. . The Headlam Diaries,
pp. 100-101
2.
Diary of Duff Cooper, January 1936, published in
The Times, Tz,
4 February 2003
3.
Ramsay MacDonald diary, 13 February 1936, PRO, PRO 30/69, 1753
4.
Diary entry, 18 November 1936,
Parliament and Politics . . . The Headlam Diaries,
p. 98
5.
This Week,
11 November 1936
6.
'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at 10 Downing Street', n.d. [late December 1936 or early 1937J, CAB 127/157
7.
Quoted in Philip Ziegler,
Edward
VIII,
p. 258
8.
Quoted in J. G. Lockhart,
Cosmo Gordon Lang,
p. 395
9.
Oliver Warner,
Admiral of the Fleet,
p. 60
10.
Ibid.
11.
Diary entry for 2 March 1936, Hilda Runciman Papers, WR Add 10, 21 May 1935 to 20 March 1936
12.
Christopher Hibbert,
Edward: The Uncrowned King,
p. 16
13.
Piers Brendon and Philip Whitehead,
The Windsors,
pp. 78-9
14.
Dina Wells Hood,
"Working for the Windsors,
p. 14
15.
[Prince] Albert to Londonderry, 18 November 1920, PRONI, D3099/3/ 13/3
16.
F. J. Corbitt,
Fit For a King,
p. 199
17.
Ibid.,
p. 204
18.
Ibid.,
p. 206
19.
South Wales Argus,
19 November 1936
20.
Duke of Windsor,
A Family Album,
pp. 8, 60
21.
Alexander Hardinge to Helen Cecil, 23 August 1922, Hardinge Papers, U2117, Ci/161
22.
Philip Ziegler,
King Edward
VIII,
p. 242
23.
Helen Hardinge,
Loyal to Three Kings,
p. 59
24.
Quoted from his notes in J. G. Lockhart,
Cosmo Gordon Lang,
p. 392
25.
John Gunther,
Inside Europe,
p. 250
26.
William Abbs, Principal of the Abbs School of Sight Training, to King Edward VIII, 6 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
27.
South Wales Argus,
19 November, 1936
28.
Compton Mackenzie,
The Windsor Tapestry,
p. 207 2,9. Diana Mosley,
The Duchess of Windsor,
p. 74