The following chapter notes have been compiled to give an overview of the sources drawn upon in preparing William and Kate, but they are by no means all-inclusive. Certain key sources at Buckingham Palace, St. James’s Palace, Clarence House, Kensington Palace, Sandringham, Highgrove, Balmoral, Windsor Castle, Eton, Sandhurst, and Scotland Yard—as well as relatives, friends, acquaintances, schoolmates, and employees of both the royal and Middleton families—agreed to cooperate only once they were assured their names would not be mentioned. Therefore, the author has respected the wishes of the many interviewed sources who wished to remain anonymous and has not listed them either here or elsewhere in the text. Over the years countless articles and news reports concerning William and Kate have appeared in such publications as the Sunday Times of London, the New York Times, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Daily Mail, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Time, Life, People, Newsweek, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Paris Match, Le Monde, the Times of London, and the Economist and been carried over the Associated Press, Bloomberg, and Reuters wires.
Interview subjects included Alan Hamilton, Dr. Frederic Mailliez, Beatrice Humbert, Jeanne Lecorcher, Richard Kay, Thierry Meresse, Richard Greene, the late Lady Elsa Bowker, Peter Archer, Ezra Zilkha, Harold Brooks-Baker, Andy Radford, Mark Butt, Claude Garreck, Josy Duclos, Remi Gaston-Dreyfus, Peter Allen, Barry Schenck, Miriam Lefort, Janet Lizop, Pierre Suu, and Steve Stylandoudis. Published sources included Amar Singh, “The Battle to Protect Kate,” Evening Standard, January 9, 2007; Kira Cochrane, “In Diana’s Footsteps,” Guardian, January 9, 2007; Annick Cojean, “The Final Interview,” Le Monde, August 27, 1997; “Charles Escorts Diana Back to a Grieving Britain,” the New York Times, September 1, 1997; Anthony Holden, “Why Royals Must Express Remorse,” Express, September 3, 1997; Robert Hard-man, “Princes’ Last Minutes with Mother,” Daily Telegraph, September 3, 1997; “The Princes’ Final Farewell,” Sunday Times of London, September 7, 1997; Alan Hamilton, Andrew Pierce, and Philip Webster, “Royal Family Is ‘Deeply Touched’ by Public Support,” Times, September 4, 1997; “Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961–1997,” Week, September 6, 1997; “The Nation Unites Against Tradition,” Observer, September 7, 1997; Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, The Operation Paget Inquiry Report into the Allegation of Conspiracy to Murder Diana, Princess of Wales, and Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed, December 14, 2006; “Farewell, Diana,” Newsweek, September 15, 1997; John Simpson, “Goodbye England’s Rose: A Nation Says Farewell,” Sunday Telegraph, September 7, 1997; “Driver Was Drunk,” Le Monde, September 3, 1997; Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997); Pascal Palmer, “I Gave Diana Last Rites,” Mirror, October 23, 1997; Robert Jobson and Greg Swift, “Look After William and Harry,” Daily Express, December 22, 1997; Christopher Andersen, The Day Diana Died (New York: William Morrow, 1998); “Flashback to the Accident,” Liberation, September 2, 1997; Howard Chua-Eoan, Steve Wulf, Jeffrey Kluger, Christopher Redman, and David Van Biema, “A Death in Paris: The Passing of Diana,” Time, September 8, 1997; Wendy Berry, The Housekeeper’s Diary (New York: Barricade Books, 1995; Thomas Sancton and Scott MacLeod, Death of a Princess: The Investigation (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998); James Hewitt, Love and War (London: Blake Publishing, 1999); Marianne Macdonald, “A Rift Death Can’t Heal,” Observer, September 14, 1997; Tess Rock and Natalie Symonds, “Our Diana Diaries,” Sunday Mirror, November 16, 1997; Simone Simmons, Diana: The Last Word (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005); Deirdre Fernand, “The Girl Who Would Be Queen,” Sunday Times, December 31, 2006; Claudia Joseph, “The Making of the Middletons,” Mail on Sunday, December 30, 2007; Rosa Monckton, “Time to End False Rumors,” Newsweek, March 2, 1998; and Jerome Dupuis, “Diana: The Unpublished Report of Witnesses at the Ritz,” L’Express, March 12, 1998.
For these chapters, the author drew on conversations with Peter Archer, Jules Knight, Mimi Massy-Birch, Lady Yolanda Joseph, Emma Sayle, Guy Pelly, Lady Elsa Bowker, Hamish Barne, Hugh Massy-Birch, Countess Mountbatten, Delissa Needham, Elizabeth d’Erlanger, Alice Tomlinson, Richard Greene, Geoffrey Bignell, Penny Walker, Lord Mishcon, Jules de Rosee, Richard Kay, the Countess of Romanones, Farris Rook-stool, Fred Hauptfuhrer, Cecile Thibaud, David McGough, Hazel Southam, Charles Furneaux, Evelyn Phillips, Susan Crimp, Elizabeth Widdett, Janet Allison, and Mary Robertson. Among the published sources consulted are David Leppard and Christopher Morgan, “Police Fears over William’s Friends,” Sunday Times, February 27, 2000; Barbara Kantrowitz, “William: The Making of a Modern King,” Newsweek, June 26, 2000; Claudia Joseph, Kate (New York: Avon, 2009); P. D. Jephson, Shadows of a Princess (New York: HarperCollins, 2000); Robert Hardman, “Just (Call Me) William,” Daily Telegraph, June 9, 2000; Alex O’Connell, “Prince Chases Adventure in Remotest Chile,” September 30, 2000; Andrew Pierce and Simon de Bruxelles, “Our Mother Was Betrayed,” Times, September 30, 2000; Michelle Tauber, “Speaking His Mind,” People, October 16, 2000; Richard Kay, “William Stalked by His Uncle’s TV Crew,” Daily Mail, September 27, 2001; Bob Colacello, “A Court of His Own,” Vanity Fair, October 2001; Warren Hoge, “Charles’s Response to Use of Drugs by Son Is Praised,” New York Times, January 14, 2002; J. F. O. McAllister, “Once Upon a Time, There Was a Pot-Smoking Prince,” Time, January 28, 2002; Antony Barnett, “Prince Taken to Drink and Drugs Rehab Clinic,” Observer, January 13, 2002; Ben Summerskill, “The Trouble with Harry,” Observer, January 13, 2002; Warren Hoge, “Royal Palace Is Roiled Again by New Round of Revelations,” New York Times, November 11, 2002; Joan Smith, “Prince Charles: What a Guy! What a Boss! What?” Independent, March 12, 2003; Tom Rawstorne, “William: In His Own Words,” Daily Mail, May 30, 2003; “William ‘the Young Yob’: Charles Forced to Apologize for His Son’s Road-Rage,” Daily Mail, June 16, 2003; Christopher Morgan and David Leppard, “Party Girl in William’s Circle Snorted Cocaine,” Sunday Times, February 26, 2000; Christopher Andersen, “The Divided Prince,” Vanity Fair, September 2003; Matthew Bailey and Andrew Pierce, “ ‘I’m Sorry for Wearing Nazi Swastika,’ Says Prince Harry,” Times, January 13, 2005; Susan Schindehette and Allison Adato, “Princess in Love,” People, August 8, 2005; Nicola Methven, “Hypno-Di-Sed: Hewitt Put in Trance,” Mirror, September 19, 2005; Michelle Green, “Is She the One?” People, October 17, 2005; Andrew Pierce, “Cameron’s Royal Link Makes Him a True Blue,” Times, December 5, 2005; Richard Palmer and Lizzie Catt, “William and Kate on Ibiza ‘Rave’ Holiday,” Daily Express, September 2, 2006; Robert Jobson, William’s Princess (London: Blake Publishing, 2006); Mazher Mahmood and Amanda Evans, “I Called Wills a F***er,” News of the World, July 19, 2009; Sandra Laville and Owen Gibson, “Scooped by His Own Mobile Phone,” Guardian, November 30, 2006; Alex Tresniowski and Ashley Williams, “Will & Kate: The Perfect Match,” People, December 11, 2006; Emily Nash, “Diana: The Verdict,” Mirror, December 11, 2006; “Prince William Graduates as an Officer,” Guardian, December 15, 2006; Chris Hughes, “Salutes You, Sir,” Mirror, December 16, 2006.
Information for these chapters was based in part on conversations with Richard Kay, Emma Sayle, Philip Higgs, Mimi Massy-Birch, Peter Archer, Lord Mishcon, Alan Hamilton, Guy Pelly, Alex Shirley-Smith, Lady Elsa Bowker, Grigori Rassinier, Richard Greene, Ezra Zilkha, Geoffrey Bignell, Aileen Mehle, Janet Lizop, Muriel Hart-wick, Sioned Compton, Gared Mankowitz, Cecile Zilkha, Natalie Symonds, and Hugh Massy-Birch. Published sources included John Elliott, “Charles Plans a Mansion Fit for Lovebirds,” Sunday Times, December 17, 2006; Frances Gibb, “Lawyers Planning Test Case to Stop Paparazzi Hounding Kate Middleton,” Times, January 9, 2007; “News of the World Journalist Jailed,” Reuters, January 26, 2007; Don Van Natta Jr., Jo Becker, and Graham Bowley, “Tabloid Hack Attack,” New York Times Magazine, September 5, 2010; Oliver Marre, “Girl, Interrupted,” Observer, March 18, 2007; Nikhita Mahajan, “He Was Touchy Feely,” Sunday Mirror, March 25, 2007; Duncan Larcombe, “Wills & Kate Split,” Sun, April 14, 2007; Laura Collins, Katie Nicholl, and Ian Gallagher, “Kate Was Too Middle Class,” Mail on Sunday, April 15, 2007; David Smith, “Royal Relationships: The Breakup,” April 15, 2007; Zoe Griffin and Grant Hodgson, “Wills & Kate 2002–2007: The Fairytale’s Over,” Sunday Mirror, April 15, 2007; Rajeev Syal, “Tony Blair: Let Them Be, They Are Young,” Times of London, April 16, 2007; Victoria White and Stephen White, “Life After William,” Mirror, April 21, 2007; Katie Nichol and Amy Hanson, “Flirty Kate Had Designs on Me,” Mail on Sunday, April 22, 2007; Laura Collins and Louise Hannah, “As Kate Re-Emerges More Tanned and Confident, a New Middleton Girl Takes a Bow,” Daily Mail, May 27, 2007; Karen Rockett, “It’s Back On,” Sunday Mirror, June 24, 2007; Eva Simpson and Sarah Tetteh, “Thrills & Kate: Exclusive,” Mirror, July 3, 2007; Richard Woods, “Leave Us Alone,” Sunday Times, October 7, 2007; Andrew Alderson, “Prince Eyes Legal Action,” Sunday Telegraph, October 7, 2007; Sarah Knapton, “Prince Denounces ‘Aggressive’ Paparazzi Pursuit,” Guardian, October 6, 2007; Lisa Sewards, “The Day Prince William Pulled a Gun on Me,” Daily Mail, December 28, 2007; Robert Jobson and Keith Dovkants, “Kate, the ‘New Royal,’ Gets Her Own Bodyguards,” Evening Standard, January 9, 2008; Andrew Pierce, “Prince’s Lawyers Warn Paparazzi Off Stalking Middleton,” Daily Telegraph, February 23, 2008; Rebecca English, “William Landed His Air Force Helicopter in Kate’s Garden,” Daily Mail, April 21, 2008; Aislinn Simpson, “William Flies into a Storm,” Daily Telegraph, April 21, 2008; “William’s Training Cost 162,000 Pounds,” Birmingham Post, May 8, 2008; Ben Guy, “Will Finds a Way to Get to Church on Time—in a Helicopter,” Newcastle Journal, April 23, 2008; BBC News, “William and RAF Sorry for Prince’s FIVE Chinook Joyrides,” April 23, 2008; Fred Redwood, “Helicopter Stunt that Put Kate’s Home on the Map,” Sunday Telegraph, May 18, 2008; Lucy Cockcroft, “Prince William’s Chinook Flight to Stag Party Costs 8,716 Pounds,” Daily Telegraph, June 30, 2008; Alan Hamilton, “A Feather in His Cap: Young Prince Is New Recruit to the World’s Oldest Order of Chivalry,” Times of London, June 17, 2008; Sri Carmichael, “Prince William: Drug Buster,” Evening Standard, July 2, 2008; Simon Perry, “Prince William’s Ship Seizes $80 Million in Drugs,” People, July 2, 2008; Richard Kay, Geoffrey Levy, and Katie Glass, “Wild Side of Kate’s Family,” Daily Mail, August 9, 2008; Nick Owens, “Crown Sugar: Jagger Sings for Wills & Kate on Mustique Love Trip,” Sunday Mirror, August 10, 2008; Duncan Larcombe, “Exclusive: The Kate Frame Robbery,” Sun, September 1, 2008; Vicky Ward, “Will’s Cup of Tea,” Vanity Fair, November 2008; Richard Eden, “Kate’s ‘Vulnerable’ Mother Speaks Out for the First Time,” December 7, 2008; Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe, “Inside the Sex Club for Girls,” Sunday Times, March 15, 2009; Geoffrey Levy and Richard Kay, “How Many MORE Skeletons in Kate’s Closet?” Daily Mail, July 22, 2009; James Whitaker and David Collins, “One’s Been Frozen Out: Queen Tells Kate It’s Family ONLY at Sandringham This Christmas,” People, December 20, 2009; Liz Hoggard, “Let Them Eat Cake,” Evening Standard, February 18, 2010; Alex Tresniowski, “A Royal Love,” People, May 3, 2010; ABC News, “Duchess of York Scandal,” May 24, 2010; Vanessa Friedman, “Fantasy Matrimony,” Financial Times, May 29, 2010; Ed Pilkington, “Sarah Ferguson on Oprah,” Guardian, June 2, 2010; David Stringer, “Prince William Makes First Royal Rescue for RAF,” Associated Press, October 5, 2010.