Chapter Sixteen: ‘And They Lived Happily Ever After’

  1.    Lord Athlone to Duke of Windsor, 5 January 1952, Royal Archives DW/8194, in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.527

  2.    Wilson Harris, The Spectator, 5 October 1956

  3.    Stephen Spender, New York Times, 15 April 1951

  4.    Bloch, Secret File, p.301

  5.    Ibid.

  6.    Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 4 November 1951, ibid.

  7.    Alan Lascelles to Winston Churchill, 27 September 1951, Royal Archives, RA/PSO/GVI/C/042/362

  8.    Desmond Flower to Duke of Windsor, 26 April 1951, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/A/7932

  9.    Lord Crome to Duke of Windsor, 21 August 1951, Royal Archives, RA/ DW/7988, in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.526

  10. Winston Churchill to Duke of Windsor, 26 September 1951, Royal Archives, RA/DW/8023, ibid.

  11. Duke of Windsor to Ulick Alexander, 6 October 1951, Royal Archives, RA/DW Add 1/184

  12. Duke of Windsor to Kenneth H. Smith, 28 September 1951, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/A/8029

  13. Duke of Windsor speech notes for BPRA annual dinner, 28 September 1951, Dep. Monckton Trustees 20

  14. Duke of Windsor to Walter Monckton, 5 November 1951, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/A/8057

  15. Duke of Windsor to George VI, 12 November, Royal Archives, GVI/ PRIV/01/02/39

  16. Duke of Windsor to Sir Oliver Franks, 26 November 1951, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/A/8065

  17. Duke of Windsor press conference, 7 February 1952, in Higham, pp.336–7

  18. Channon diary, 9 February 1952

  19. Duchess of Windsor to Duke of Windsor, 7 February 1952, in Bloch, pp.304–5

  20. Duchess of Windsor to Duke of Windsor, 10 February 1952, ibid.

  21. Duchess of Windsor to Duke of Windsor, 11 February 1952, ibid.

  22. Ibid., pp.306–7

  23. Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 10 February 1952, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.660

  24. Duke of Windsor to Duchess of Windsor, draft letter, 13 February 1952, in Bloch, Secret File, pp.307–8

  25. Duchess of Windsor to Duke of Windsor, 14 February 1952, ibid., pp.308–9

  26. Channon diary, 15 February 1952

  27. Vickers, Behind Closed Doors, p.304

  28. Duchess of Windsor to Duke of Windsor, 15 February 1952, in Bloch, Secret File, pp.309–10

  29. Duchess of Windsor to Duke of Windsor, 17 February 1952, ibid., pp.310–11

  30. Duke of Windsor to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 17 February 1952, in Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, p.660

  31. Duke of Windsor to Duchess of Windsor, 22 February 1952, in Bloch, Secret File, pp.311–12

  32. Duke of Windsor notes, ibid., pp.312–13

  33. Channon diary, 19 February 1952

  34. Ibid., 24 February 1952

  35. Ibid., 26 February 1952

  36. Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.537

  37. Gloucester, p.174

  38. Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 9 October 1952, Royal Archives, RA/QM/PRIV/CC9

  39. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Alan Lascelles, 29 November 1952, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.447

  40. Bloch, Secret File, p.314

  41. Ibid.

  42. Pimlott, The Queen, p.208

  43. Duke of Windsor to Winston Churchill, 23 November 1952, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/A/8394

  44. Winston Churchill to Duke of Windsor, 5 December 1952, Royal Archives, RA/EDW/PRIV/MAIN/A/8403

  45. Duke of Windsor to Lord Dudley, 6 April 1953, in Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.538

  46. Windsor, Duke of, The Crown and the People, p.47

  47. Duchess of Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 3 October 1952, in Bloch, Secret File, pp.315–16

  48. Duke of Windsor to Duchess of Windsor, 9 March 1953, ibid., p.319

  49. Duke of Windsor to Duchess of Windsor, 14 March 1953, ibid., p.322–3

  50. Duke of Windsor to Duchess of Windsor, 21 March 1953, ibid., pp.323–5

  51. Duke of Windsor to Duchess of Windsor, 27 March 1953, ibid., pp.326–8

  52. Duke of Windsor to Duchess of Windsor, 31 March 1953, ibid., pp.329–30