The Peoples King (60 page)

71.
     
Winston Churchill, 'The abdication crisis: Mr Baldwin's shrewdness',
Yorkshire Post,
30 April 1948

72.
    
Ibid.

73.
    
Entry for 10 December 1936,
The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart,
p. 361

74.
   
Peter Gornall and Robert Bradley to Stanley Baldwin, 17 December 1936, Baldwin Papers Vol. 146

75.
     
Dorothy M. Povah to Stanley Baldwin, iz December 1936, Baldwin Papers Vol. 146

76.
    
Agnes Fulton to Stanley Baldwin, 14 December 1936, Baldwin Papers Vol. 145

77.
    
Wm J. Cooper to Stanley Baldwin, 15 December 1936, Baldwin Papers Vol. 145

78.
    
Edith Londonderry to Stanley Baldwin, 12 December 1936, Baldwin Papers Vol. 143

79.
    
Sir F. Maurice to Stanley Baldwin, iz December 1936, Baldwin Papers Vol. 148

80.
   
Diary of Hilda Runciman, zo November 1936, Hilda Runciman Papers, 21 March 1936 to 26 January 1937

81.
    
F. G. Watton to the Duke of Windsor, 12 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8

82.
   
A. G. Griffith to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 2

83.
    
British Legion, Birmingham, to King Edward VIII, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6

84.
   
W. Graham to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4

85.
    
G. R. Garner to King Edward VIII, Sunday [most likely 6 December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 2

86.
  
Vera Brittain,
Testament of Experience,
p. 162

87.
   
Diary of Jan Longley, 10 December 1936, Acc. 35694/21

88.
  
Diary of Anthony Heap, 10 December 1936, Acc. 2243/9/1

89.
  
Diary of Mary Elizabeth King, 6 December 1936, MS 1547/15

90.
   
Anonymous to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8

91.
     
Mrs Rose Carter to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8

92.
   
'A mother' to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8

93.
   
George A. Wright to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8

94.
    
'A Loyal Subject' to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 9

95.
   
D. D. Davies to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 9

96.
   
Letter from Kent to King Edward VIII, 10 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 7-9

97.
    
Letter to King Edward VIII, 10 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9

98.
   
Letter to King Edward VIII, 10 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9

99.
  
Bernard Shaw to John G. Moore, 23 June 1937, in Dan H. Laurence (ed.),
Bernard Shaw,
p. 469

100.
    
Lascelles to Dawson, 13 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fol. 80

101.
     
Edward, Prince of Wales, to Mrs Freda Dudley Ward, 28 April 1920, in
Letters from a Prince,
p. 3 59

102.
    
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 278

103.
    
J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George and the abdication of Edward VIII', p. 93

104.
    
Ibid.,
p. 91

105.
    
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 280

106.
    
Oliver Warner,
Admiral of the Fleet,
p. 65

107.
    
Ross McKibbin,
Classes and Cultures,
p. 7

108.
      
Quoted in J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George and the abdication of Edward VIII', pp. 89-90

109.
     
Hazel King Tillman to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8

no. Diary of Nancy Dugdale, pp. 70-1, Nancy Dugdale Papers

in. Quoted from John Aird's unpublished diaries in Geordie Greig,
Louis

and the Prince,
p. 257

112.
       
Parliamentary Counsel, Treasury Chambers, to Sir Horace Wilson, 7 December 1936, PRO, PREM 1/466

113.
     
Diary of Anthony Heap, 11 December 1936, Acc. 2243/9/1

114.
      
Letter to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9

115.
      
Letter from Kent to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 7-9

116.
      
Eric W. Sykes to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 9

117.
      
Letter from Tottenham, London, to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6

118.
     
'Miss Wales' to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8

119.
      
Doris M. Devereux to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8

120.
     
Geo. H. Buckland to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/ GVI/ABD, Box 8

121.
     
Harry Wild to Winston Churchill, 12 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/598-B

122.
     
Note by Walter Monckton, 'Secret 8c Confidential', 2 November 1937, Dep. Monckton Trustees 15, fol. 313

12

'God bless you both'

1.
   
Diary of Edgar Procter, 11 December 1937, D222/13

2.
  
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 409

3.
  
Martin S. Gilbert,
Companion to Winston S. Churchill,
Vol. 5, p. 511

4.
  
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 409

5.
  
J. Bryan III and Charles J. V. Murphy,
The Windsor Story,
p. 281

6.
  
Lilian Shepherd to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3

7.
  
J. Bryan III and Charles J. V. Murphy,
The Windsor Story,
p. 281

8.
  
Letter to King Edward VI11,3 December 19 3 6, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1 - 6

9.
  
Sibyl Colefax to Bernard Berenson, n.d. [1936], Berenson Papers, File CS 1936-1938

10.
   
Tablet,
12 December 1936, p. 824

it.
Japan Times,
'British crisis great human drama', 11 December 1936; cutting in PRO, FO, 262/1929

iz.
Japan Advertiser,
'Prominent women criticize decision', 12 December

1936; cutting in PRO, FO, 262/1929

T3. John W. Wheeler-Bennett,
King George
VI,
pp. 294-5

14. Letter from London to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/

ABD, Boxes 7-9

15.
  
Letter from Denbigh to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9

16.
 
Letter from South London to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9

17.
  
T. C. Vigil to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 9

18.
  
Mrs Doris M. Devereux to King Edward VIII, n.d., RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9

19.
  
Betty Williams to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 9

20.
 
Letter from Walsall to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6

21.
  
Mrs S. Kendall to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 9

22.
 
John W. Wheeler-Bennett,
King George
VI,
pp. 294-5

23.
 
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
pp. 413-14

24.
 
Diary of Anthony Heap, 11 December 1936, Acc. 2243/9/1

25.
 
Diary of Violet Almgill Dickinson, 13 December 1936

26.
 
Letter from Birkenhead to the Duke of Windsor, 11 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9

27.
  
Reginald Ball to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8

28.
 
Diary entry, 13 December 1936,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf,
p. 43

29.
 
Ronald Tree,
When the Moon was High,
p. 66

30.
 
Martin S. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
Vol. 5, p. 829

31.
  
Quoted in
Ibid.,
p. 830

32.
 
James Agate, Diary entry for 11 December 1936,
Ego
3, p. 62

33.
 
Diary of David Strain, 11 December 1936, PRONI, D2585/3/16

34.
 
Elizabeth Perkins to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8

35.
 
M. Gilmour to the Duke of Windsor, 13 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8

36.
  
E. B. Williamson to the Duke of Windsor, 13 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8

37.
  
'Giovanni' to the Duke of Windsor, 12 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8

38.
 
Diary of Violet Milner, 11 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5

39.
 
Helen Hardinge,
Loyal to Three Kings,
p. 174

40.
 
Ramsay MacDonald, diary entry for 12 December 1936, PRO, PRO 30/69,1753

41.
 
Diary of Cecil Scott Turner, 11 December
1936,
Acc
/1385

42.
 
Diary of Florence Turtle, 11 December
1936