1 Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 27 December 1948, Royal Archives, RA/QEQM/PRIV/OUT/MISC, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.412
2 Queen Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 1 January 1949, Royal Archives, RA/QEII/OUT/BUTHLAY, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.641
3 Crawford, p.109
4 Kenneth de Courcy to Duchess of Windsor, 13 May 1949, Kenneth Hugh de Courcy papers, reel 2, box 2, folder 9, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
5 Charles Murphy to Walter Monckton, 23 April 1949, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20
6 Godfrey Thomas to Walter Monckton, 19 June 1949, ibid.
7 Walter Monckton to Alan Lascelles, 8 July 1949, ibid.
8 Walter Monckton to Charles Murphy, 8 July 1949, ibid.
9 Walter Monckton to Alan Lascelles, 8 July 1949, ibid.
10 Duke of Windsor to Walter Monckton, 13 August 1949, ibid.
11 Walter Monckton to Duke of Windsor, 22 August 1949, ibid.
12 Charles Murphy to Walter Monckton, 4 August 1949, ibid.
13 Charles Murphy to Walter Monckton, 1 September 1949, ibid.
14 A. G. Allen to Walter Monckton, 13 October 1949, ibid.
15 A. G. Allen notes on book chapters, 21 October 1949, ibid.
16 Walter Monckton notes on book chapters, September 1949, ibid.
17 Walter Monckton notes, 4 October 1949, ibid.
18 Queen Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 4 April 1949, in Vickers, Elizabeth, p.283
19 Marion Crawford to Bruce Gould, 19 September 1949, ibid., p.285
20 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Astor, 19 October 1949, ibid., pp.285–6
21 Dermot Murrah to Bruce Gould, 21 November 1949, ibid., pp.287–8
22 Marion Crawford to Bruce Gould, 25 November 1949, ibid., p.288
23 Marion Crawford to Bruce Gould, 26 December 1949, ibid., p.289
24 Vera M. Brunt to Alan Lascelles, 30 December 1949, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/2870
25 Alan Lascelles to Vera M. Brunt, 5 January 1950, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/2870
26 Vickers, Elizabeth, p.290
27 Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 27 June 2000