Authors: Jane Ridley
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Nonfiction, #Retail, #Royalty
100
. RA GV/GG9/631, Frederick Ponsonby to Arthur Davidson, 13 November 1920.
101
. RA GV/GG9/913, Frederick Ponsonby to Lord Rosebery, 15 December 1922. RA GV/GG9/924, Ponsonby to Lee, 19 December 1922. Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 1, pp. 216–17.
102
. RA GV/GG9/1032, Frederick Ponsonby to H. H. Asquith, 18 November 1924.
103
. RA GV/GG9/1062 [Stamfordham’s Memo for Ponsonby], 11 April [1925].
104
. BL, Sidney Lee Papers, Add MSS 56087A, fol. 114, Lytton Strachey to Sidney Lee, 31 December 1918.
105
. RA GV/GG9/1048, Ponsonby’s memo to Stamfordham, 16 February 1925. RA GV/ GG9/1049, Stamfordham’s memo to Ponsonby, 16 February 1925. Here Stamfordham says: “Would it not be unusual for a
personal
presentation. It would be a pity to associate the King too much with the work, especially as, unless I am mistaken, a predominant note in it will be, disparagement of Queen Victoria.”
106
. RA GV/GG9/1170, Lionel Cust to Frederick Ponsonby, 3 November 1927.
107
. RA GV/GG9/833, Frederick Ponsonby to Arthur Davidson, 8 September 1921. White, “The Biographer,” p. 315.
108
. RA GV/GG9/1091, Frederick Macmillan to Frederick Ponsonby, 23 February 1926.
109
. RA GV/GG9/1170, Lionel Cust to Frederick Ponsonby, 3 November 1927. White, “The Biographer,” p. 115.
110
. Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 2, p. 408.
111
. David Cannadine, “From Biography to History: Writing the Modern British Monarchy,”
Historical Research
, vol. 77 (2004), p. 295.
112
.
King’s Counsellor: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
, ed. Duff Hart-Davis (Phoenix, 2007), pp. 72–73.
113
. Wheeler-Bennett quoted in Cannadine, “From Biography to History,” p. 296.
114
. Charles Sebag-Montefiore Archive, Philip Magnus Papers, Robin Mackworth-Young to Philip Magnus, 6 April 1960, and 7 December 1960.
115
. Charles Sebag-Montefiore Archive, Philip Magnus Papers, Robin Mackworth-Young
to Philip Magnus, 10 September 1958, 27 May 1960, and 10 October 1961.
116
. Charles Sebag-Montefiore Archive, Philip Magnus Papers, Robert Blake to Philip Magnus, 20 May 1962 and 27 August 1962.
117
. Colin Matthew, “Philip Magnus,”
ODNB
. Charles Sebag-Montefiore Archive, Philip Magnus Papers, Hugh Trevor-Roper to Philip Magnus, 21 November 1960 and 30 March 1961.
118
. Charles Sebag-Montefiore Archive, Philip Magnus Papers, Philip Magnus to his mother, Mrs. Magnus, 3 May 1959.
119
. Charles Sebag-Montefiore Archive, Philip Magnus Papers, Mrs. Magnus to Philip Magnus, 28 November 1960.
120
. Charles Sebag-Montefiore Archive, Philip Magnus Papers, Elliott B. Macrae to Philip Magnus, 17 February 1960.
121
. Charles Sebag-Montefiore Archive, Philip Magnus Papers, Mrs. Magnus to Philip Magnus, 29 August 1960.
122
. Charles Sebag-Montefiore Archive, Philip Magnus Papers, Mrs. Magnus to Philip Magnus, 18 November 1961.
123
. Charles Sebag-Montefiore Archive, Philip Magnus Papers, Philip Magnus to Mrs. Magnus, 24 August 1962.
124
.
The Observer
, 15 March 1964.
The Letters of Edwin Lutyens
to His Wife Lady Emily
(ed. with Clayre Percy)
Fox Hunting: A History
The Letters of Arthur Balfour
and Lady Elcho, 1885–1917
(ed. with Clayre Percy)
Young Disraeli
The Architect and His Wife:
A Life of Edwin Lutyens
The Heir Apparent:
A Life of Edward VII,
the Playboy Prince
J
ANE
R
IDLEY
is professor of history at the University of Buckingham in England, where she teaches a course on biography. Her previous biographies include
The Young Disraeli
and
The Architect and His Wife: A Life of Edwin Lutyens
, which won the prestigious Duff Cooper Prize. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Ridley writes book reviews for
The Spectator
and other newspapers, and has also appeared in several television and radio documentaries. She lives in London and Scotland.