Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires (109 page)

3. Ibid.

4. Dr. Otto von Habsburg to Gordon Brook-Shepherd, August 4, 1999, in
Uncrowned Emperor
, Brook-Shepherd, p. 74.

5. Ibid., p. 75.

6. Harding,
Imperial Twilight
, p. 305.

7. Habsburg Family Archives, Cassette No. 30, File 186, in
The Last Empress
, Brook-Shepherd, p. 232.

8. Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma to Empress Zita, June 21, 1933, in
The Last Empress
, Brook-Shepherd, p. 240.

9. Ibid
.

10. Sir Clive Wigram to Sir Robert Vansittart, June 26, 1933, in ibid., p. 242.

11. King George V to Empress Zita, June 29, 1933, in ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Norman Davies,
Vanished Kingdoms:The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
(London: Allen Lane, 2011), p. 567.

14. Snyder,
The Red Prince
, p. 131.

15. Tyler-Whittle,
The Last Kaiser
, p. 339.

16. Milwaukee Journal
, September 15, 1934.

17. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 329.

18. Clark,
Kaiser Wilhelm II
, p. 354.

19. Memorandum of Dr. Otto von Habsburg to Gordon Brook-Shepherd, October 8, 1999 in
Uncrowned Emperor
, Brook-Shepherd, p. 80.

20. Manchester Guardian
, September 25, 1933.

21. Tsarina Alexandra to the Reverend William Boyd Carpenter, bishop of Ripon, December 29, 1902/January 11, 1903, Add. MSS 46721/236, The British Library, quoted in
Born to Rule
, Gelardi, p. 243.

22. Harding,
Imperial Twilight
, p. 321.

23. Cawthorne,
Kings and Queens of England
, p. 184.

24. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 328.

25. Ibid., p. 331.

26. Duff,
Queen Mary
, p. 197.

27. Diary entry of Queen Mary, May 6, 1935, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 554.

28. Gelardi,
Born to Rule
, p. 355.

29. Duff,
Queen Mary
, p. 194.

30. Queen Mary to King George V, undated, August 1934, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 551.

31. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 318n.

32. Shawcross,
Queen Elizabeth
, p. 347.

33. Noble Frankland,
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980), p. 123.

34. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 345.

35. Ibid.

36. Shawcross,
Queen Elizabeth
, p. 351.

37. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 346.

38. Diary entry of Queen Mary, January 20, 1936, in
Queen Mary
,
Pope-Hennessy, p. 558.

39. Shawcross,
Queen Elizabeth
, p. 351.

40. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 559.

41. Diary entry of Queen Mary, January 22, 1936, in ibid., p. 560.

42. Shaw,
Royal Babylon
(Kobo desktop version), chap. 9, para. 4.

43. Hildegard Anderson, “The Royals: An Illustrated History of Monarchy—From Yesterday to Today,”
Life Books Special Edition
(December, 2010), p. 41.

44. Henry Channon,
Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon
, ed. Robert Rhodes James
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967), p. 55.

45. Wilhelm Hohenzollern to Queen Mary, February 2, 1936, in
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, Carter, p. 424.

46. RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1936: 28 January, in
Queen Elizabeth
, Shawcross, p. 352.

47. Shawcross,
Queen Elizabeth
, p. 352.

48. Wakeford,
Three Consort Queens
, p. 184.

29: For the Love of a Woman

1. Channon,
Chips
, p. 54.

2. Elizabeth, Duchess of York, to Queen Mary, March 11, 1936, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/24, in Shawcross,
Queen Elizabeth
, pp. 360-361.

3. Queen Mary to King Edward VIII, undated, 1936, in
Queen Mary
, Duff, p. 204.

4. Diary entry of Queen Mary, September 30, 1936, in ibid., p. 207.

5. Shaw,
Royal Babylon
(Kobo desktop version), chap. 9, para. 81.

6. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 323.

7. Carroll,
Notorious Royal Marriages
, pp. 391–392.

8. Shaw,
Royal Babylon
(Kobo desktop version), chap. 9, para. 85.

9. Duff,
Queen Mary
, p. 208.

10. Carroll,
Notorious Royal Marriages
, pp. 390–391.

11. Lewis Broad,
The Abdication
(London: Frederick Muller, 1961), p. 75.

12. Tudor enthusiasts will recall that Henry VIII outlived his third wife, Jane Seymour, who died a few days after giving birth to Henry’s only son. He predeceased his sixth and final wife, Catherine Parr.

13. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 364.

14. Carroll,
Notorious Royal Marriages
, p. 396.

15. Queen Mary to Edward, Duke of Windsor, July 5, 1938, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, pp. 574–575.

16. Hough,
Born Royal
, p. 285.

17. Ibid.

18. Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, pp. 323–324.

19. King Edward VIII to Queen Mary, November 20, 1936, EDW/ADD/ADD/ABD/1, the Royal Archives, quoted in ibid., p. 324.

20. Queen Mary to Elizabeth, Duchess of York, November 17, 1936, QEQM/PRIV/RF, the Royal Archives, quoted in
Queen Elizabeth
, Shawcross, p. 373.

21. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 579.

22. Diary entry of Queen Mary, December 10, 1936, in
Queen Elizabeth
, Shawcross, p. 381.

23. Cawthorne,
Kings and Queens
, p. 189.

24. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 368.

25. Carroll,
Notorious Royal Marriages
, p. 400.

26. Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, p. 538.

27. Daily Express
, June 3, 1957.

28. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 378.

29. Elizabeth, Duchess of York, to Queen Mary, October 21, 1936, QM/PRIV/CC12/36, the Royal Archives, quoted in
Queen Elizabeth
, Shawcross, p. 370.

30. Wheeler-Bennett,
King George VI
, p. 288.

31. Farquhar,
Behind the Palace Doors
, p. 287.

32. Queen Mary to King George VI, February 4, 1937, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11 in
Queen Elizabeth
, Shawcross, pp. 421-422.

33. Gelardi,
Born to Rule
, p. 361.

34. Shaw,
Royal Babylon
(Kobo desktop version), chap. 9, para. 87.

35. Queen Mary to King George VI, April 10, 1937, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11, the Royal Archives, quoted in
Queen Elizabeth
, Shawcross, p. 421.

36. Diary entry of Queen Mary, June 3, 1937, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 585.

37. Farquhar,
Behind the Palace Doors
, p. 288. Once Wallis secured her divorce from her second husband, Ernest Simpson, she resumed using her maiden name, Warfield.

38. Duff,
Queen Mary
, p. 220.

39. Shawcross,
Queen Elizabeth
, p. 401.

40. Diary entry of Queen Mary, May 12, 1937, in
Queen Mary
, Duff, p. 220.

41. Gelardi,
Born to Rule
, p. 368.

42. Queen Mary to King George VI, May 12, 1937, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11, in
Queen Elizabeth
, Shawcross, p. 404.

43. Shawcross,
Queen Elizabeth
, p. 387.

44. Palm Beach Post
, March 13, 1938.

45. Diary entry of Queen Mary, November 20, 1938, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 588.

46. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 588.

47. Habsburg Family Archives, Cassette No. 20, File 502, in
The Last Empress
, Brook-Shepherd, p. 252.

48. Declaration of Archduke Otto, March 12, 1938, Habsburg Family Archives, Cassette No. 21, File 361, in ibid., p. 266.

49. Volkzeitung
, April 20, 1938.

50. Queen Mary to King George VI, September 3, 1939, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11, in
Queen Elizabeth
, Shawcross, p. 493.

51. Declaration of Empress Zita, July 27, 1940, Habsburg Family Archives, “New York Trunk,” No. 3, File 261, in
The Last Empress
, Brook-Shepherd, p. 278.