The Duchess Of Windsor (81 page)

Authors: Greg King

BOOK: The Duchess Of Windsor

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Source Notes

I
N MY SOURCE NOTES
, Wallis‘s book
The Heart Has Its Reasons
is cited as WW; David’s book,
A King’s Story
is cited as David; Philip Ziegler’s authorized biography of David,
King Edward VIII,
is cited as Ziegler, with all other titles cited by the same author delineated according to individual title; and the auction catalogs from Sotheby‘s are cited as Sotheby’s,
Private or Public Collection.

Introduction

International News Service article, 21 February 1956.

WW, vii.

Prologue

Bradford,
Elizabeth,
456.

Sarah Ferguson, 199.
Hugo Vickers in
Hello!
23 August 1997, 26.
Private information.

The quotation from Wallis’s commonplace books (at the beginning of the book) is quoted in Bloch,
Letters
, 343.

Chapter 1

WW, 5–6.

New York Herald Tribune,
13 December 1936;
New York Daily News
, 2 December 1936.
Martin, 15-16; Wilson, 26.
Wilson, 26.
Thornton, 14.
Martin, 18.
WW, 4.
Ibid., 4.
Bocca,
Woman Who Would Be Queen
, 14;
London Sunday Chronicle
, 7 December 1936.
Culver, Francis, and William R. Marye,
Southern Spectator,
March 1937.
Martin, 16.
WW, 4.
Ibid., 4.
Ibid., 5–6.
The cottage burned to the ground on 1 July 1942.
Baltimore Evening Sun
, 2 July 1942.
See Higham, 14.
Bloch,
Duchess
, 13.
Information from Dr. Jean Thin to author.
Thornton, 21.
WW, 4–5.
WW, 5.

Chapter
2

WW, 8.

Ibid., 8.
Ibid., 7.
Ibid., 10.
Gordon, 71.
Amory,
Who Killed Society?
235.
Ibid.
WW, vii.
Ibid., 8.
Ibid., 11.
Ibid., 4.
Ibid., 6.
Ibid., 9.
Ibid., 9.
Ibid., 10.
Ibid., 10.
Ibid., 9.
Ibid., 12.
Ibid., 13-14.
Ibid., 16.
Ibid., 13.
Ibid., 13.
Ibid., 15.
Ibid., 15.
Baltimore News-Post
, 4 February 1957.
WW, 16–17.
Ibid., 20-21.
Amory,
Who Killed Society
? 235.
WW, 19.
Ibid., 19.
Ibid., 20.
Ibid., 15-16.
Bove, 243.
Donaldson, 157.
WW, 18–19.
Ibid., 24.
Bryan and Murphy, 18.
WW, 25.
Ibid., 25.
Ibid., 25-26.
Ibid., 26.

Chapter 3

WW, 27.

Ibid., viii, 28.
New York Evening-Journal,
6 February 1937.
WW, 30.
Wilson, 33; WW, 31.
WW, 31.
Ibid., 32.
Ibid., viii.
St. John,
Honeycomb
, 490.
The Sunday People
, London, 29 April 1973.
Ibid.
Baltimore News-Post
, 1 October 1936.
WW, 36.
Quoted in Martin, 33.
WW, 37.
Wilson, 49-50.
WW, 38–39.
Ibid., 39.
Ibid., 38.
Ibid., 39–40.
Ibid., 40; Beime, 286-89.
Ibid., 41.
Baltimore News-Post
, 30 September 1936.
WW, 42.
Baltimore News-Post
, 21 November 1936.
Baltimore Sun,
8 December 1936.
The Sunday People
, London, 29 April 1973.
Baltimore News-Post
, 1 October 1936.
Baltimore News-Post
, 8 February 1957.
Brody, 65.
WW, 44.

Chapter
4

WW, 47.

Ibid., 47.
Ibid., 48.
Ibid., 48.
Ibid., 49.
Ibid., 46.
Ibid., 49.
Ibid., 50.
Ibid., 51.
Ibid., 51.
Ibid., 51.
Ibid., 51.
Ibid., 52.
Ibid., 52.
Ibid., 52.
Ibid., 52.
Ibid., 52.
Ibid., 53.
Ibid., 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.

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