Chapter Fourteen: ‘Incessant Worries and Crises’

  1.    Bew, p.478

  2.    Churchill press statement, 16 February 1950

  3.    Winston Churchill to Alan Lascelles, 27 February 1950, in Gilbert, Never Despair, p.512

  4.    Raphael, pp.58–9

  5.    Queen Elizabeth to Prince Philip, 3 March 1950, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.424

  6.    Gilbert, Never Despair, p.516

  7.    Alan Lascelles to The Times, 29 April 1950

  8.    Manchester Guardian, 25 August 1950

  9.    Clement Attlee to George VI, 18 August 1950, Royal Archives, RA/PSO/ GVI/C/350/11

  10. George VI to Clement Attlee, 21 August 1950, Royal Archives, RA/ PSO/GVI/C/350/13

  11. Channon diary, 6 March 1950

  12. Ibid., 16 June 1950

  13. Eade, p.235

  14. Dean, p.117

  15. Alan Lascelles to Frederick Browning, 31 March 1950, in Pimlott, The Queen, p.166

  16. Ibid., p.162

  17. Eade, p.240

  18. Queen Elizabeth to Prince Philip, 21 July 1950, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.426

  19. Boothroyd, p.144

  20. Kenneth de Courcy to Duke of Windsor, 10 June 1950, Kenneth Hugh de Courcy papers, reel 2, box 2, folder 9, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

  21. Duchess of Windsor to Kenneth de Courcy, 4 July 1950, ibid.

  22. Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.520

  23. Bryan and Murphy, p.469

  24. Ibid., p.470

  25. Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.520

  26. Charles Murphy to Walter Monckton, 6 April 1950, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20

  27. Bryan and Murphy, p.470

  28. Ibid., p.471

  29. Ibid., p.475

  30. Walter Monckton to Alan Lascelles, 5 May 1950, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20

  31. Winston Churchill to Brendan Bracken, 1 August 1950, ibid.

  32. Alan Lascelles to Walter Monckton, 10 May 1950, ibid.

  33. Alan Lascelles to D. Rickett, 18 May 1950, Royal Archives, RA/PSO/ GVI/C/042/350