The Peoples King (56 page)

76.
Telegram 'from Prime Minister [of Canada] to Prime Minister [of Britain]', 30 November 1936, PRO, DO 121/33

77.
  
Sir Francis Floud to Dominions Office, 1 December
1936,
PRO, CAB
21/4100/2

78.
 
Record of an interview between Mr de Valera and Sir Harry Batterbee at Dublin,
29
November
1936,
PRO, CAB
127/156

79.
 
Ibid.

80.
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
pp.
354-5

7

'The People want their King'

1.
   
Frank Owen and R. J. Thompson,
His Was the Kingdom,
pp.
49-50

2.
    
'The coronation service. A bishop's reply to Dr Barnes',
The Times, z
December 1936

3.
  
Frank Owen and R. J. Thompson,
His Was the Kingdom,
p.
50

4.
  
Diary of David Strain, 1 December 1936, PRON1, D2585/3/16

5.
  
Lydia Bruce Siebenhaar to 'Sir',
2
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
4

6.
 
James Wilson to King Edward VIII, 3 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
4

7.
  
Charles Nelson Stewart to the Bishop of Bradford,
3
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
4

8.
  
W. F. Deedes,
Dear Bill,
pp.
41-2

9.
  
Malcolm Muggeridge,
The Thirties,
p.
283

10.
    
Diary entry,
2
December
1936,
Parliament and Politics . . . The Headlam Diaries,
p.
100

11.
    
Diary entry,
7
December
1936,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf,
pp.
39-40

12.
    
Diary of Violet Milner,
3
December
1936,
Violet Milner Papers, VM
5

13.
     
Marie C. Stopes to King Edward VIII,
3
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box
3

14.
    
British Science Service, Fleet Street, to King Edward VIII, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 5

15.
    
Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
p.
78

16.
   
Frank Owen and R. J. Thompson,
His Was the Kingdom,
p. 61

17.
    
Diary entry,
7
December
1936,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf,
p.
39

18.
   
Diary of Florence Turtle, 8 July 1936

19.
   
Evening Standard,
3
December
1936

20.
   
TfceCottsWMf/o«fl/Cn'sis,UniversalTalkingNewsnewsreel,December 1936

21.
    
Diary of Nancy Dugdale, p. 5, Nancy Dugdale Papers

22.
   
Cosmo Lang to Geoffrey Dawson, 3 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fol. 25

23.
    
Francis Williams,
Nothing So Strange,
p. 141

24.
   
Quoted in Kingsley Martin,
The Magic of Monarchy,
p.
66

25.
    
Evening News,
3 December 1936

26.
   
Star,
3 December 1936

27.
    
News Chronicle,
3 December 1936

28.
   
Diary of Violet Milner, 3 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5

29.
   
Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
p. 72

30.
    
Entry for 4 December 1936,
The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart,
p. 360

31.
    
Sir Charles Petrie,
The Modern British Monarchy,
p. 176

32.
    
F. J. Riley to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
6

33.
    
S. Underwood to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 4

34.
     
'Memo from Lady Williams with regard to advisory leaflets', 1936, National Birthday Trust Fund Papers, F2/5/2(4)

35.
    
Claude Davis to King Edward VIII,
6
December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6

36.
   
Letter from London to King Edward VIII,
6
December X936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6

37.
   
Grace Walker to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4

38.
   
Miss M. Naylor to King Edward VIII, 3 October 1936 [but most likely

3
  
December 1936I, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4

39.
    
Eve Home to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4

40.
   
Dougal Duncan to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 6

41.
    
Mrs E. Bartlett to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 3

42.
    
G. S. Edlin to King Edward VIII, 4 November 1936 [but most likely

4
 
December 1936I, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4

43.
 
Clara Rohnn to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4

44.
 
Alan W. Elphick to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 4

45.
 
These letters are in RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-9

46.
  
Telegram from Caledon Shipyard Workers to King Edward VIII,
4
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
10

47.
 
John Watson to King Edward VIII,
9
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6

48.
 
David Dale to King Edward VIII,
4
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
3

49.
 
E. H. to King Edward VIII,
7
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box
4

50.
 
Diary of Geoffrey H. Wells,
3
December
1936

51.
 
Alan Turing to his mother,
3
December
[1936],
Alan Turing Papers, AMT/ K/1/48

52.
 
'Opinion in the Dominions',
The Times
, 4
December
1936

53.
 
From Newport, Virginia to King Edward VIII, n.d (December
1936],
RA, PS/GVI/ABD Boxes 1
-6

54.
 
Frank B. Hubin to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December
1936],
RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box
7

55.
  
Rudolph Durbar to King Edward VIII,
8
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 1

56.
 
V. Hardie to Sir John Simon,
9
December
1936,
PRO, HO
144/21070

57.
 
Diary of John George Harmer,
3
December
1936,
Acc.
6220/B0X 9

58.
 
Diary of Herbert M. Willmott,
3
December
1936

59.
 
Diary of Florence Turtle,
3
December
1936

60.
 
Diary of John George Harmer,
7
and
11
December
1936,
F/Wlm
/16

61.
  
Entry for
4
December
1936,
The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart,
p.
360

62.
 
Ibid.

63.
 
Diary entry,
6
December
1936,
Parliament and Politics . . . The Headlam Diaries,
pp. 101
-2

64.
 
Prime Minister of Britain to the Prime Ministers of the Dominions,
3
December
1936,
PRO, CAB
21/4100/2

65.
 
Ibid.

66.
 
Cabinet minutes for
6
December, PRO, CAB
23/86,
Vol. LIII

67.
 
Lady Rhondda to Stanley Baldwin,
31
December
1936,
PRO, PREM
1/459

68.
 
Cosmo Gordon Lang to Stanley Baldwin,
25
November
1936,
PRO, PREM 1
/448

69.
 
Quoted in
A Diary of the Last Days of the Reign of King Edward
VIII,
p. 4

70.
  
O. B. Stokes, Editor-in-Chief,
Yorkshire Observer
and
Telegraph and Argus,
Bradford, in letter to Editor,
The Times,
9
May
1956

71.
 
Entry for 31 October
1936,
Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55

72.
 
John Evelyn Wrench,
Geoffrey Dawson and Our Times,
footnote 1, p.
344

73.
 
Entry for 1 December
1936,
Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55

74.
 
The Times,
2
December
1936

75.
 
Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
p.
100

76.
 
The Times,
30
November
1936

77.
 
John Gunther,
Inside Europe,
p.
253

78.
 
Ibid.,
p.
254

79.
 
Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
p.
102

80.
Entry for
2
December
1936,
Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55; emphasis added

81.
 
Lilian M. Shepherd to King Edward VIII,
6
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box
3

82.
 
H. Stanley Jevons to King Edward VIII,
6
December
1936,
RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box
3

83.
 
Press cutting [December
1936],
in Brownlow Papers, BNLW
4/4/9/7/6

84.
 
Herman Rogers to Wallis Simpson,
28
October
1936,
in Michael Bloch (ed.),
Wallis & Edward Letters,
p.
209

85.
 
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p.
362

86.
Notebook kept by Lord Brownlow, Brownlow Papers, BNLW
4/4/9
/1

87.
 
Duchess of Windsor,
The Heart Has Its Reasons,
p.
256

88.
Notebook kept by Lord Brownlow, Brownlow Papers, BNLW
4/4/9
/1