The Duchess Of Windsor (82 page)

Bradford,
Reluctant King
, 10.

 

Cited, Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary,
32.

Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary,
77.

Ibid., 230.

David, 27.

Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, 242.

Cited, Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary,
262.

Ibid.

Ibid., 426.

Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates,
28 June 1894.

Duff,
Queen Mary
, 127.

Cited, Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary,
391.

Quoted, Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, 299.

Donaldson, 25.

Rose,
King George V,
58.

Pope-Hennessy,
A Lonely Business,
219.

David, 28.

Ibid., 26.

Churchill,
Lord Derby
, 159.

See Donaldson, 22–24, for further discussion of this infamous quotation.

Lees-Milne, 230, 235.

Pope-Hennessy,
A Lonely Business,
214.

Gore, 368.

David, 28.

Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary,
391.

David, 11.

Ibid., 13.

Parkhurst, 24-25.

Nicolson,
George V
, 86–87.

David, 9.

Quoted, Bradford,
Elizabeth
, 15.

Cited, Ziegler, 26.

New Yorker
, 3 October 1941.

David, 62.

Ibid., 81.

Getty, 81.

Ziegler, 51.

David, 111.

Bolitho,
Edward VIII,
72.

Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary,
514.

Quoted in Brendon and Whitehead,
The Windsors,
29.

Most famously, on 21 April 1917, H. G. Wells, in a letter which appeared in the
Times
, declared that the time had come to rid England of “the ancient trappings of throne and sceptre.” He said the country was struggling under the influence of “an alien and uninspiring court.” Hearing this, George V fumed, “I may be uninspiring, but I’ll be damned if I’m alien.” Nicolson,
George V,
403.

Nicolson,
George V
, 405.

At the same time, the German names and titles held by other royal relatives were also relinquished. The Battenbergs became Mountbattens, with the creation of the earldom of Milford Haven for the head of the family; another Battenberg, Prince Alexander, was created Marquess of Carisbrooke. Queen Mary’s two brothers jettisoned Teck in favor of their maternal grandmother’s family name of Cambridge, one becoming Marquess of Cambridge, the other the Earl of Athlone.

New York Times
, 29 May 1972.

Ziegler,
Mountbatten
, 54.

David, 138.

New York Times
, 14 January 1970.

Prince Christopher of Greece, 165.

Bolitho,
Edward VIII,
75.

Bradford,
Reluctant King
, 95.

Hart-Davis, xi.

Ziegler, 142.

Quoted, Middlemas,
George VI,
201.

Wheeler-Bennett,
King George VI
, 151.

Airlie, 166.

Thornton, 46.

Bryan and Murphy 70.

Hatch, 124.

Leighton, 370.

Rose,
King George V,
303.

Pope-Hennessy
Queen Mary,
521-22.

Airlie, 163.

Behrman, 100—101.

Hart-Davis, 88.

Ibid., 109.

Asquith,
Diaries
, 421.

Vanderbilt and Furness, 274-75.

Ibid., 279.

WW, 154.

 

Ibid., 155.

Ibid., 155.

Ibid., 156.

Ibid., 157.

Ibid., 157.

Ibid., 157-58.

Ibid., 158.

David, 257.

Vanderbilt and Furness, 288.

WW, 158—59.

Ibid., 159.

Ibid., 161.

Ibid., 162.

Ibid., 162.

Ibid., 162.

Ibid., 163.

Ibid., 164.

Ibid., 164.

See Vanderbilt and Furness, 265—66.

Private information.

WW, 169.

Ibid., 171.

David, 237.

WW, 169-71.

Cooper,
Light of Common Day,
162.

WW, 171.

Ibid., 171.

Ibid., 171-72.

Ibid., 172-73.

Ibid., 173.

Ibid., 173-74.

Ibid., 174.

Ibid., 175.

Ibid., 176.

Edwards, “Fort Belvedere,” in
Architectural Digest
, 180.

WW, 176-77.

Bloch,
Letters,
86.

WW, 178.

WW, 179.

 

Bloch,
Letters,
91.

Ibid., 95.

WW, 179.

Ibid., 180.

Lockhart,
Diaries
, 264.

Ibid., 215.

WW, 182.

Vanderbilt and Furness, 306.

Ibid., 306.

Thornton, 65.

WW, 181—83.

Ibid., 183.

Bryan and Murphy, 106.

Bloch,
Letters,
114.

Ibid., 116.

Vanderbilt and Furness, 311.

Ibid., 296.

WW, 184.

Ibid., 184.

Vanderbilt and Furness, 312.

Ibid., 313.

Donaldson, 170.

Ziegler, 198-99. Neither Thelma nor Freda was mentioned by the Duke in his memoirs. Freda died in 1983, having, for the most part, maintained her silence.

Bloch,
Letters
, 119.

WW, 191—92.

Time
, 14 December 1936.

Interview with Sir Dudley Forwood.

Bloch,
Letters
, 120—21.

Ibid., 122—23.

London
Observer Review
, 24 June 1973.

WW, 184—85.

Ibid., 185.

Ibid., 188.

Ibid., 187.

Ibid., 187.

Ibid., 190.

Ibid., 191.

Bloch,
Letters
, 129.

Lowndes, 141—42.

Airlie, 200.

Ibid., 200.

WW, 192.

Bloch,
Letters
, 133.

 

WW, 198.

Time
, 9 November 1936.

WW, 198—99.

Ibid., 200—201.

Interview with Sir Dudley Forwood.

Ibid.

WW, 201.

Interview with Sir Dudley Forwood.

Warwick, 81.

Ibid., 83.

Donaldson, 181.

One of David’s friends later told author Ralph G. Martin, “To put it bluntly he had the smallest pecker I have ever seen. Can you imagine what this did to him? Here are all these beautiful women all over the world, all ready and willing to go to bed with the Prince Charming of the world, all of them expecting the most eventful romantic night of their lives. And the ones who made it with him, can you imagine their disappointment? And can you imagine how he felt?” (Martin, 149) And Wallis herself is supposed to have told Adela Rogers St. John that all of the sons of George V “have small penis complexes.” (Birmingham, Duchess of, 59)

Private information.

Other tales have ranged from the mild to the truly extraordinary. Several of those interviewed for this book have accused David of having a foot fetish, an infantile fetish, and even of having talked Wallis into donning a strap-on dildo so that she might have intercourse with him. Such wild gossip, spread with much fervor among the aristocracy and members of the court, is, needless to say, entirely without support.

Edwards,
Matriarch
, 359.

Ziegler, 205.

Ibid., 203.

Bryan and Murphy, 361.

See Bloch,
The Duchess of Windsor
, 229, for details; also 19, where Bloch suggests that it is possible she suffered from
vaginismus
, whereby psychologically she produced the inability to have intercourse.

Private information.

Information from Dr. Jean Thin to author.

Martin, 150.

Private information.

WW, 204-205.

Information from Sir Steven Runcimann to author.

Knighted in 1957, Chips died the following year.

Channon, 33.

Ibid., 41.

Ibid., 23.

Rose,
Who’s Who in the Royal House of Windsor
, 55.

Duff died in 1954; Diana, in 1986, a month after Wallis.

Masters, 88.

Ibid., 106.

Everett, 66.

Channon, 29.

Ibid., 34.

Sibyl Colefax died in 1950.

Beaton,
Self Portrait
, 47.

Mosley, My Life, 76. Emerald Cunard died in 1948.

Ibid., 75.

Acton, 220.

Cooper,
Light of Common Day
, 215.

WW, 208.

Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
, 31 May 1937.

Cross, 85.

Fest, 436.

Goering, 70.

Donaldson, 207.

Quoted, Martin, 171-72.