AB: Aunt Bessie
CA: Cleveland Amory
CAP: Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library
CC: Constance Coolidge, the Comtesse de Jumilhac
CLE: Papers of Courtney Letts de Espil, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
DoW: Duke of Windsor
FDW: Freda Dudley Ward
HHR: Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons
HLR: Herman Livingston Rogers letter
HWE: Helen Worden Erskine Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, NY
LLR: Lucy Livingston Rogers
LTF: Lady Thelma Furness
MB: Michael Bloch, ed., Wallis and Edward: Letters 1931–1937
MdHS: Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD
MKR: Mary Kirk Raffray, Buckner Hollingsworth Papers, 1911–1964, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
TOMS: Anne Kirk Cooke and Elizabeth Lightfoot, The Other Mrs. Simpson
W: Wallis
Unless stated otherwise, Duchess of Windsor quoted from interviews with Cleveland Amory, Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library.
“I want to come home”: MKR, May 15, 1912, box 1, file 1–7, Buckner Hollingsworth Papers, 1911–1964, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
“I had a huge crush”: Cleveland Amory interview with Duchess of Windsor, May 1955, CAP, reel 11.
“earliest spring flowers”: Mary King McPherson, Oldfields School, 1867–1989: A Feeling of Family (Glencoe, MD: Oldfields School, 1989), 42.
“came in contact with her”: CA interview W, May 1955.
“terrifically wild with excitement”: MKR, undated, 1913.
“Wallis all the time”: MKR, 1912.
“Slavery as I knew it”: Box 7, folder 15, Warfield Family Papers, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries.
it involved cousin Edwin: Chicago Tribune, July 27, 1906.
“they will tell you so themselves”: CAP, box 84.
“Never marry a Yankee”: Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons (London: Michael Joseph, 1956), 9.
It helped pay the bills: CAP, box 84.
“any child I ever saw”: CA interview AB, CAP, box 84.
“spoilt child, terribly spoilt”: CA interview W, May 1955.
“what he had tipped you”: Ibid.
“inevitably thrown much together”: HHR, 12.
“room to room”: CA interview AB, CAP, box 84.
He called her “Minnehaha”: Dr. Charles F. Bove, A Paris Surgeon’s Story (Boston: Little, Brown, 1956).
“very hard time making the grade”: Billy Baldwin with Michael Gardine, Billy Baldwin, an Autobiography (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985), 294.
“spinach and fresh air”: CA interview W, May 1955.
“knew what she wanted”: CA interview AB, box 84.
“come back after Christmas”: MKR, October 31, 1912.
“British stiff upper lip”: CA interview W, May 1955.
“every occasion imaginable”: MKR, July 30, 1911.
“gloomy and awful” day: MKR, November 4, 1912.
“everyone else was so envious”: MKR, Spring 1914.
“a good person to be in school with”: Maxine Sandberg biography, MS 2901, MdHS.
“go for a drive”: Baltimore News-Post, October 1, 1936.
too extravagant: MKR, May 20, 1912.
“like molasses attracts flies”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), 35.
“quite a show”: Maxine Sandberg, MS 2901, MdHS.
“tall, dark, and silent”: HHR, 42.
“a gift she had inherited from her mother”: Baltimore News-Post, October 1, 1936.
“nice girl”: Anne Sebba, That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2012), 18.
“no chance at all in our town”: Upton Sinclair, Wally for Queen! The Private Life of Royalty (Pasadena, CA: Station A, 1936).
“it was very sophisticated”: Author interview, January 2016.
“all their catty little hearts”: Baltimore News-Post, October 1, 1936.
“it was a crushing blow”: CA interview W, May 1955.
Unless otherwise stated, Duchess of Windsor interviews from box 9, “Mother I Met a Man” and “A Navy Wife,” Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library.
“used as a dump”: Letters to Corinne Mustin, Henry C. Mustin Papers, MSS52860, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
$25 a month: Ibid.
“very moral”: CA interview W.
“most fascinating aviator”: HHR, 46.
“adventurous realm”: HHR, 49.
“mine were fliers”: CA interview W.
“a better shipmate”: The Lucky Bag, vol. 17 (Annapolis, MD: US Naval Academy, 1910), https://archive.org/details/luckybag1910unse.
“strong, assured, sophisticated”: HHR, 48.
“totally and helplessly”: HHR, 49.
“Florida and flying”: CA interview AB, CAP, box 84.
“married him out of curiosity”: HHR, 51.
“hand at every opportunity”: CA interview W.
“rest is up to you”: CA interview AB, CAP, box 84.
“Here comes Carrie Nation”: CA interview W.
“you couldn’t for life”: CA interview AB, CAP, box 84.
“nothing would come between us”: CA interview W.
“opportunity to fight”: Lieutenant Spencer to Commander Kirkpatrick, August 13, 1918, NavAir 3944, National Archives.
“hard work”: Captain Irwin to Lieutenant Spencer, undated, NavAir 3944, National Archives.
central role in Wallis’s life: HHR, 72.
“enjoying informal parties”: San Diego Union, March 20, 1977.
“focus was on her”: Ibid.
“and ordered it”: CA interview W.
“avoid the truth”: CA interview notes, CAP, box 9.
“received by the prince”: “The Duchess of Windsor and the Coronado Legend, Part II,” San Diego Historical Society Quarterly 34, no. 1 (Winter 1988); News-Herald (Franklin, PA), November 11, 1936.
“dressed to kill”: J. Bryan III and Charles J. V. Murphy, The Windsor Story (London: Granada, 1979), 67.
“topic of conversation”: Benjamin Sacks, “The Duchess of Windsor and the Coronado Legend,” Journal of San Diego History 34, no. 1 (Winter 1988).
“one can be at a party”: HHR, 71.
“pleasure at all times”: Rear Admiral W. F. Fullam to Secretary of the Navy (Operations), November 9, 1921, 26521-477, National Archives.
“not a woman at all”: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 27–28.
“she loved it”: CA interview Herman Livingston Rogers, CAP, box 85.
“she would throw things”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), 63.
“could not live with”: CA interview AB, CAP, box 85.
face of their mothers: New York Times, February 14, 2016.
“bring this disgrace upon us”: HHR, 79.
“I will still be around”: HHR, 80.
“little to be said or done”: CAP, box 85.
“at sea with the fleet”: News-Herald (Franklin, PA), November 11, 1936.
“terrific success”: Washington in the Time of FDR. Courtney Letts de Espil Papers (hereafter cited as CLE), box 8, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
“casualness of chorus girls”: F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up,” Esquire, February 1936.
“you will not mind what I wrote”: CLE, box 8.
“disguise it”: Author interview, October 2015.
“slapstick wit which always amuses”: CLE, box 9, folder 1.
“operated their social slide rule as they saw fit”: CA interview W, CAP, box 9.
“as if I was a child”: CA interview W, Reveille in Washington, CAP, box 9.
the thinking of the British government: Donald A. Ritchie, Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 95–96.
“make a lady of me”: HHR, 83.
“women on their own”: CA interview W, CAP, box 9.
“a special paradise”: HHR, 83.
“His name is of no consequence”: CA interview W, CAP, box 9.
“scholarship and wide experience”: CA interview W, CAP, box 9.
“tailors in London’s Savile Row”: Redbook magazine, November 1937.
“girls he dated”: Author interview, October 2015.
“good established family”: Ibid.
“resistance was at a dangerous low”: CA interview W, CAP, box 9.
“a woman so in love”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 71.
“Vindictive, too”: Author interview, October 2015.
“Edward the Eighth had”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 20.
“Ça ne se fait pas”: Ibid., 19.
“They are usually unfaithful”: CLE, box 8.
“I will never forget you”: CLE, box 9, folder 2.
“I was tired of it”: Ibid., folder 1.
“cure for any continuing heartaches”: CLE, box 8.
“We became a foursome”: HHR, 89.
“a past without a future”: CA interview W, CAP.
“He went off, I thought sadly”: CLE, box 9, folder 2.
“laying corner stones and attending services”: CLE, box 8, folder 8.
“moments of frivolity and escape”: Ibid.
“his strange, feverish, restless ways”: Ibid.
“the press had treated him”: CLE, box 8, folder 2.
what remained of the night: Chicago Tribune, May 3, 1959.
Unless otherwise stated, Duchess of Windsor interviews from box 9, The Lotus Years, Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library.
“it was no use”: CA interview W, The Lotus Years.
“utterly satisfying second honeymoon”: HHR, 94.
“fuss over the girls”: HHR, 95.
“lose what we began with”: Ibid.
courtesan houses and 401 courtesans: Gail Hershatter, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 508.
“something of a curiosity”: Author interview, January 2016.
“such favorable odds”: CA interview W.
“intentions were not so attractive”: Ibid.
safety of these trains: US Department of State: Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1925, vol. 1 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1940). See University of Wisconsin digital collection, http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FRUS.FRUS1925v01.
member of a delegation: Author interview, January 2016.
“jumping out of the window”: Lewis Clark, US Foreign Service Officer, 1926–1958, “Diplomacy as a Career: Hard Work, Hardship, and Happy Times,” Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Arlington, VA. At www.adst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Clark-Lewis-memoir.pdf.
“touched by a divine fire”: Crowninshield-Magnus Papers, box 6, Massachusetts Historical Society.
her ardour cooled: Andrea Lynn, Shadow Lovers: The Last Affairs of H. G. Wells (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001), 238.
“I had a marvellous time”: CA interview W.
“anything to do with that woman”: Interview Butler Brayne Thornton Robinson Franklin, Foreign Affairs Oral History Project, Foreign Service Spouse Series, www.adst.org/OH20TOCs/Franklin20Butler.toc.pdf.
“the most pathetic thing I’d ever seen”: Ibid.
“She kept everyone laughing”: Ibid.
“a lasting friendship”: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life, rev. ed. (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2005), 34–35.
never able to have children: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 56.
this tale seems unlikely: Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City, UT), January 5, 2007.
“look of an athlete”: HHR, 100.
“if I survive the war”: HHR, 101.
“very good looking and attractive”: Andrea Lynn, Shadow Lovers, 240.
“whatever milieu chance placed him”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 25.
“lyric interval of my youth”: HHR, 103.
“complete uselessness”: CA interview W.
“never does with anything”: CA interview Herman Livingston Rogers, CAP, box 85.
“the world’s biggest tease”: Ibid.
“you go too far”: Ibid.
“make me do anything”: Ibid.
“human drives and foibles”: HHR, 106.
“in love with him”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 25.
“always remain friends”: CA interview W.
“why I stopped off”: Ibid.
Unless otherwise stated, Duchess of Windsor interview from box 9, Warrenton, Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library.
“Yours, Win”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 87.
“into the wilderness to reflect”: CA interview W.
“ ‘inferior decorating’”: HHR, 110.
“buried alive for two years”: CA interview W.
“I vegetated with equal satisfaction”: HHR, 112.
“we both need money”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 27.
“the Daily Racing Form”: John Toler, “Romance, Abdication and Exile: Wallis Warfield in Warrenton, and Beyond,” News and Notes from the Fauquier Historical Society 22, no. 2 (Spring and Summer 2000).
“marry the rich Jew”: Michael Bloch, ed., Wallis and Edward: Letters, 1931–1937 (New York: Summit, 1986), (hereafter cited as MB), 123.
“made any party something special”: Washington Herald, December 9, 1936.
“playful and good humoured”: CA interview W.
“Well read and very sure of himself”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 34.
“odors of fresh spring flowers with them”: Anne Kirk Cooke and Elizabeth Lightfoot, The Other Mrs. Simpson: Postscript to the Love Story of the Century (New York: Vantage, 1977), (hereafter cited as TOMS), 18.
“clawing the air in ecstasy”: Ibid.
“you may be falling in love again”: HHR, 123.
“he was good to you, Wallis”: CA interview W, box 8.
black sheep of the family: CA interview W.
jaws of victory: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 60; J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 30.
“a matter of incompatibility”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 87.
“departed friends”: Ibid.
“she helped herself to my husband”: Cleveland Amory, The Best Cat Ever (New York: Little, Brown, 1993), 136.
“ways of his father’s people”: HHR, 118.
“wear them with an air”: Helen Worden Erskine Papers, box 80, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York (hereafter cited as HWE).
“go ahead with the wedding”: Author interview, February 2016.
“he passionately loved me”: Andrea Lynn, Shadow Lovers, 247.
bursting her eardrum: Ibid., 247–250.
“love into a man’s life”: CA interview W.
“I was happy”: Ibid.
“snowy white hair”: Ibid.
“marrying Ernest tomorrow much love”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 35.
“cold little job”: HHR, 127.
Unless otherwise stated, Duchess of Windsor interviews from The Good Life on a Small Weekly Budget and British Goods Are Best, box 9, Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library.
“see something young”: CA interview W.
“manage Ernest’s life”: Ibid.
“alien to the human spirit”: HHR, 134.
“British goods were best”: CA interview W.
“aggressively American”: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 67.
“like a parrot’s”: Christopher Wilson, Dancing with the Devil: The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue (London: HarperCollins, 2000), 56.
“when in Rome”: CA interview Ernest Simpson, CAP, box 85.
“what would become of me”: CA interview W.
“seemed to me incomprehensible”: Ibid.
“that was the Prince of Wales”: HHR, 134.
“he had a wistful face”: CA interview W.
“frugally but well”: HHR, 136.
“a twenty-four-hour memory”: CA interview W.
“such an unbecoming colour”: HHR, 143.
“not enough head”: Ibid.
“one in joy”: Daily Mail, April 16, 2005.
“a really happy person”: CA interview Ernest Simpson, CAP, box 85.
“good things of the present”: HHR, 145.
“as quickly as possible”: CA interview W.
Unless otherwise stated, Duchess of Windsor interviews from The Fuss and the Feathers, box 9, Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library.
“old maids”: HWE, series 11, subseries B, box 74, Lady Thelma Furness and Gloria Vanderbilt, “We Took the High Road” (unpublished manuscript), 2.
“never tell even your pillow”: HWE, box 74, “We Took the High Road,” 9.
“the world was theirs”: HWE, box 74, Sonia Rosenberg interview, 22.
“I kicked her out”: HWE, box 74, Rosenberg, 4.
“Little Disraeli”: Ibid.
“Gloria Vanderbilt’s twin sister”: Ibid.
join him for the journey: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 133.
“rich and important men”: HWE, box 74, Rosenberg, 23.
“I was his wife in all but name”: HWE, box 74, “We Took the High Road,” 110.
“no sense of wit or repartee”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 132.
“men not their husbands”: HWE, box 74, “We Took the High Road,” 137.
“where the voyage would end”: Gloria Vanderbilt and Thelma Lady Furness, Double Exposure: A Twin Autobiography (New York: David McKay, 1958), 279.
for the rest of his life: The Independent, May 11, 1995.
“more original from the Prince of Wales”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story: The Memoirs of H.R.H The Duke of Windsor (London: Cassel, 1951), 257.
“height of bad manners”: HWE, box 74, “We Took the High Road,” 160a.
“I did like her”: Ibid., 160.
“Consuelo brought her”: Ibid.
“I was fascinated by this”: CA interview W.
“Mission accomplished”: Ibid.
“ ‘lunch with me tomorrow’”: HWE, box 74, “We Took the High Road,” 202.
“his father little”: Ibid., 133.
“what she did to Prince George”: Ibid., 15.
he looked like a child: Christopher Sykes Papers, box 3, folder 18, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Georgetown University Library, Washington, DC.
“Please see that this does not occur again”: Martin Pugh, We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain between the Wars (London: Vintage Books, 2009), 378.
“and don’t fit in”: New York Times, June 8, 2003.
“I wouldn’t be a good one”: American Weekly, December 11, 1955.
“good propaganda”: Daily Mail, March 18, 2015.
“doesn’t do much for the women”: HHR, 163.
“matter of life or death”: HWE, box 74, interview LTF.
“climbing into that car”: CA interview W.
“of course through Thelma”: MB, 53.
“I love the look of it”: Mary Kirk Raffray to Mrs. H. C. Kirk, June 2, 1931, TOMS, 4.
“no one wants to leave”: Mary Kirk Raffray to her mother, June 7, 1931, TOMS, 15.
“a great fascination on lesbians”: MB, 56.
“Not to the manor born”: HWE, box 75, Erskine interview LTF.
“I can’t stand her voice”: HWE, box 74, Erskine interview LTF.
“Those damn weekends, I suppose”: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor (London: Corgi, 1989), 217.
“little embassy secretary”: HWE, box 74, Erskine interview LTF.
“trying to please”: HWE, box 34, Erskine interview LTF.
“like a lap dog”: CA interview, CAP, box 9.
“keep him entertained”: HWE, box 74, “We Took the High Road,” 202.
“very, very sad for a long time”: Ibid., 265.
“suitable marriage to please his family”: Andrew Morton, 17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2015), 22.
“interfered and stopped it”: Neil Balfour and Sally Mackay, Paul of Yugoslavia: Britain’s Maligned Friend (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980), 93.
bore the rumours with good humour: Daily Telegraph, November 26, 2013.
“I was wrong”: HWE, box 74, “We Took the High Road,” 208.
“I enjoyed every minute of it”: HHR, 179.
“I was unaware of his interest”: HHR, 178.
“laughed and went downstairs”: CLE, box 9, folder 1.
“a fly would slip on it”: Josephine Ross, Beaton in Vogue (New York: C.N. Potter, 1986) 127.
“an engagement immediately after”: CLE, box 9, folder 1.
deluge of gems to come: MB, 97.
“I am going to miss Thelma terribly”: MB, 104.
“won’t you look after him?”: HHR, 182.
“the little man”: HWE, box 74, “We Took the High Road,” 228.
“making a play for the prince”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 143.
“the prince leads nowhere”: HWE, box 74, “We Took the High Road,” 234.
“that was very nice of him”: HWE, box 74, “We Took the High Road,” Erskine interview LTF, 7.
“the answer is definitely no”: HHR, 184.
“who’s ever been interested in my job”: HHR, 183.
“let him know she is doing it”: Upton Sinclair, Wally for Queen!
“we like to dance together”: MB, 116.
“eat with your fingers”: HWE, box 74, “We Took the High Road,” 238–242.
“gone to for advice”: Ibid.
“Don’t be silly”: Ibid.
“dog in a manger”: Ibid.
“before she and the prince broke up”: HWE, Erskine interview Sonia Rosenberg, box 74, Rosenberg, 24.
“She went to the well too often”: Ibid.
“not a figure of fun”: HWE, box 74, Erskine interview LTF, 20.
Unless otherwise stated, Duchess of Windsor interviews from A Heart’s Story, box 9, Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library.
“I was still married and that was that”: CA interview W.
“more thoughtful of others”: Herman Rogers to sister Anne, August 1934, author archive.
“he’s just slumming now”: Herman Rogers letter to sister Anne.
“everything you have known before”: HHR, 119.
“no happy outcome”: MB, 126.
“to be picked out”: CA interview AB, CAP, box 85.
“king would abdicate over her”: CA interview W.
“they were forgotten”: Ibid.
“her husband knowing about it”: HWE, box 74.
“Royalty could do no wrong.”: Ibid.
“move all the time”: MB, 129.
“cannot bear being away from you”: New York Times, June 8, 2003.
“he was much too abject”: New York Times, March 18, 1979.
“cold jealous English eyes”: MB, 134.
“one long horror”: CA interview W.
“as soon as I had left the room”: CA interview W, box 8.
promptly put the phone down: Ibid.
“show you the ropes”: HWE, box 74, “We Took the High Road,” 129.
“Remember our goal is the queen”: CA interview W, box 8.
“and reads Balzac”: Brian Masters, Great Hostesses (London: Constable, 1982), 140.
“I don’t drink”: CA interview W.
“be gracious if it kills you”: CA interview W, box 8.
“should be attracted to me”: Ibid.
“shake hands with the king’s mistress”: CA notes, CAP, box 84.
“disintegrating influence”: Ibid.
“he never forgave her”: Christopher Sykes Papers, box 24, folder 6, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Georgetown University Library, Washington, DC.
“don’t bother me with that now”: CA interview W.
“ ‘I never call men’”: Ibid.
“every woman falls for him”: Susan Williams, The People’s King: The True Story of the Abdication (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 74–76.
“she was selling champagne”, HWE, box 74, Helen Worden Erskine interview LTF.
“when he was the ambassador in England”: CLE, box 10, folder 2.
an intimate of von Ribbentrop: Ibid.
“she wouldn’t tell her pillow”: HWE, box 74, interview LTF.
“icy menace for such as me”: HHR, 207.
“sorry for the deserted host, Ernest”: San Diego Union, March 20, 1977.
“God bless WE”: MB, 158.
“man’s love is capable of”: MB, 149.
“with a flourish”: MB, 167.
“man of my dreams”: MB, 160.
“prevent our ultimate happiness”: MB, 170.
“become a royal duchess”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 115.
“profited from his friendship”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 112.
“a façade to show the outer world”: HHR, 209.
“terrible” few days at Sandringham: MB, 177.
“make us one this year”: MB, 178.
Unless otherwise stated, Duchess of Windsor interviews from A Heart’s Story, box 9, Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library.
“It’s over”: CA interview W.
“live as he pleased”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 130.
“men, not books, are his library”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 124.
“have any real friends”: Ronald Tree to Nancy Tree, 1937, Langhorne Papers, MSS 1L2653 B281–362, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.
“soon pull down the throne”: Robert Self, Neville Chamberlain: A Biography (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006), 40.
“stay the course”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 127.
“mad”: Susan Williams, The People’s King, 62.
“Wallis at my side”: Andrew Morton, 17 Carnations, 86.
“profoundly unhappy”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 137.
“prolonged agony for me”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 125.
“mangy foreign princesses left”: MB, 192.
“good influence”: MB, 190.
together in privacy: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 106.
“jewels of the crown of England”: CLE, box 9, folder 3.
“going to do about it”: CA notes, CAP, box 3.
“It was not the other way around”: HWE, box 74.
“think you do things well”: MB, 162–163.
“substance slightly harder than diamond”: Elizabeth W. Weddell, MSS IW4126cFA2, Weddell A. W., Weddell Collection, box 4, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.
“brittle and hard”: Robert Worth Bingham Papers, box 1, diaries, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
“steal silently away”: MB, 213.
“I think is the case with her”: Andrea Lynn, Shadow Lovers, 323.
“venom, venom, venom”: CA notes, CAP, box 9.
“from the time his father died”: CLE, box 9, folder 2.
“free from impropriety or grossness”: Susan Williams, The People’s King, 21.
“spiritual companionship”: Ibid.
“values of life were the same”: CA notes, box 9.
“divorce was collusive”: Cable, April 20, 1951, Daniel Longwell Papers, box 23, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, NY.
“put detectives on us”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 140.
“A boy loves a girl more and more and more”: MB, 208.
“amusing kings in mourning isn’t easy”: MB, 209.
“I see, very convenient”: Andrew Morton, 17 Carnations, 89–90.
“whole divorce wasn’t agreed on together”: Constance Coolidge, Comtesse de Jumilhac, to her father, October 28, 1936, Crowninshield-Magnus Papers, reel 5, Massachusetts Historical Society (hereafter cited as MHS).
“prove the truth of this”: HLR to Sara Delano Roosevelt, January 1937, estate of the late Mrs. Herman Livingston Rogers.
“it’s only fair for me to do it”: MB, 205.
“my future wife”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 168.
“pressing, pleading, conspiring, cajoling”: MB, 216.
“WE really are one”: MB, 217.
“in royal circles any more”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 141.
“most wonderful person in the world”: Robert Worth Bingham Papers, box 1, diaries, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
“they believe a king is in love with you”: HHR, 221.
“I’m perfectly sure they did”: New York Times, March 18, 1979.
“don’t think you can me”: MB, 235.
“admiration and such confidence”: MB, 236.
“Down with the American whore”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 178.
“I have come to dine with the king”: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 144.
“her eyebrows look attractively surprised”: Ibid., 181.
“In fact he told me so”: Ibid., 268.
“call us if you want to”: MB, 249.
Unless otherwise stated, Duchess of Windsor interviews from The Abdication, box 9, Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library.
“Can you believe it?”: CA notes, CAP, box 84.
“the marriage will be purely morganatic”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 208.
the monarchy “in danger”: Robert Worth Bingham Papers, diary, December 1936.
“Church’s influence and teaching”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 196.
“In August or September”: Sunday News, October 7, 1956.
“refused a lesser sacrifice”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 217.
“a strange almost inhuman concept”: Ibid., 222.
“asked no one’s permission”: CLE, box 9, folder 1.
“The greatest news story since the Resurrection”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 291.
“she has obtained a divorce”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 244; Times, December 4, 1936.
“beautifully conceived and expressed”: Robert Worth Bingham Papers, diary, December 1936.
“my position had become impossible”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 266.
“to marry in due time”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 225.
“I shall never give you up”: HHR, 247.
“in the Tower of London”: CA, The Abdication.
“it had taken leave”: Ibid.
a “ravenous besieging army”: Ibid.
“Listen to your friends”: CA interview Herman Rogers, CAP, box 84.
“remote and unreachable”: HHR, 262.
“disastrous for you and destroy me”: Ibid.
“the blackest woman in history”: CA, The Abdication.
“my self-respect”: CA, The Abdication.
“to the core of my being”: HHR, 265.
“debate within myself”: CA, The Abdication.
“were seldom the same”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 266.
“it was just assumed”: CA notes, CAP, box 84.
“You God-damned fool”: Lewis Clark, US Foreign Service Officer, 1926–1958, “Diplomacy as a Career: Hard Work, Hardship, and Happy Times,” Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Arlington, VA. At www.adst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Clark-Lewis-memoir.pdf.
Their ambitions ran counter from the start: New York Times, March 18, 1979.
“symbolic authority with political power”: Author interview, November 2015.
“Morganatic marriage was one”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 266.
“Mrs. Simpson being Queen of England”: John Colville to Kenneth de Courcy, January 4, 1979, Kenneth Hugh De Courcy Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
“Swell but unpublishable”: Upton Sinclair, Wally for Queen!
“for fear of its very existence” : CLE, box 9.
“shot at dawn”: William R. Castle diaries, 1918–1960, vol. 32, MsAm2021, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“throwing it places”: Stanton B. Leeds, Cards the Windsors Hold (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1937), 177.
“You can’t abdicate—and eat it”: Miles Jebb, ed., The Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn (London: Constable, 1995), 56.
“disgusted” by the abdication: Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: The Defining Years, 1933–1938 (New York: Viking, 1999), 403.
“now ‘the Duchess of Cornwall’”: Ibid.
“with her gone”: December 14, 1936, TOMS.
“possessive passion for you”: Helen Worden Erskine interview CC, HWE, box 74.
“a good prince of Wales”: Helen Worden Erskine interview LTF, HWE, box 74.
“in for some very bad times”: Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2, 403.
“cabaret to keep life gay”: CLE, box 9, folder 1.
“singing in his bathtub”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 304.
Unless otherwise stated, Duchess of Windsor interviews from The Abdication and Reflections at Candé, box 9, Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library.
“put her on your right”: Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1979), 274.
“and me alone”: CA, The Abdication, CAP, box 9.
“the final catastrophe”: HHR, 273.
“the most popular man in the country”: HWE Papers, letter from June Jeannette James, undated 1937.
“if you stopped reading about her”: HHR, 272.
“royally, imperially, wildly”: Time, January 4, 1937.
“a life of perpetual married bliss”: Neil Balfour and Sally Mackay, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia: Britain’s Maligned Friend, 138.
“I am here today”: George S. Messersmith Papers, MSS 109 2017-00, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE.
“Winnie wrote the rest”: Ibid.
“his own worst enemy”: CC, Crowninshield-Magnus Papers, reel 5, MHS.
“pacing the floor”: CA notes, CAP, box 84.
“beyond that wall”: CA interview Herman Rogers, CAP, box 84.
“Katherine—hard as nails”: MB, 310.
“he knows all about you”: CLE, box 9, folder 3.
“she could win her point”: Ibid.
“that stuttering idiot”: Cleveland Amory, The Best Cat Ever, 140.
“I have taken you into a void”: HHR, 281.
“will make me HRH”: MB, 276.
“in the eyes of the world”: Ibid.
“sycophants going to the wedding”: MKR to Buckie Kirk, May 30, 1937, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
“So long as it’s unforgettable”: CA, Reflections at Candé.
“impress with his sympathy”: Ibid.
“abyss of despair”: HHR, 286; CA interview W.
“I’ve come just as quickly as I could”: CA, Reflections at Candé.
“Your life with me will be difficult”: Ibid.
“the first painful word”: CLE, box 9, folder 1.
“I have none”: HHR, 289.
“anyone as happy as the duke”: CC to “Crownie,” May 28, 1937, MS 1772, Windsor Collection, MdHS.
“a little shy of her and adoring”: Ibid.
“ ‘What, Sir, with all those aces, really’”: Ibid.
“so perfectly natural”: Ibid.
“world had gone to the dogs”: CA interview W.
“expressed in plain sight”: Author interview, February 2016.
“it would be his child”: CA interview Herman Rogers, CAP, box 84.
“ever intimate with him”: Author interview, February 2016.
“ ‘the duke is not heir conditioned”: CA notes, CAP, box 84.
“she’ll never stay unless things get better”: CLE, box 9, folder 2.
“like a naughty little boy”: CA interview Countess Munster, CAP, box 85.
Unless otherwise stated, Duchess of Windsor interviews from We Visit Hitler’s Germany and The Aftermath, box 9, Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library.
“very thin and tired”: CC to her father, 1937, Crowninshield-Magnus Papers, reel 5, MHS.
“like a clam”: CA interview Herman Rogers, CAP, box 84.
“they give me suggestions”: Ibid.
“burning with a peculiar fire”: HHR, 300.
“nothing more than tourists”: CA interview W, We Visit Hitler’s Germany.
“conflict with British foreign policy”: Ibid.
“criticism crashed around us”: Ibid.
“nobody is going to hurt me”: HWE interview LTF, box 74.
“thrown out of America”: Ibid.
“untimely”: HLR to his former headmaster Dr. Peabody, 1937, estate of Mrs. H. L. Rogers.
“choice of wife”: CLE, box 9, folder 2.
“visit Ulster for this reason”: Sir Shane Leslie Papers, box 31, folder 21, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Georgetown University.
“an idea of President Wilson”: CC diary, 22 March 1938, private collection.
“wild animal when angry”: CA interview Herman Rogers, CAP, box 3.
“It was very embarrassing”: CC diary, April 5, 1938, private collection.
“their fall from grace”: Charlie Scheips, Elsie de Wolfe’s Paris: Frivolity Before the Storm (New York: Abrams, 2014), 41.
“standing around and looking”: CC diary, December 24, 1938, private collection.
“Do people give him credit for that?”: Ibid., March 10, 1938.
looked “stunning”: Ibid., December 29, 1938.
“he likes to talk to me”: Ibid.
“Herman has lost his pep”: Ibid., December 22, 1938.
“face them down herself”: CA interview Countess Munster, CAP, box 84.
“killed in this silly war”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 416.
“more useful than I had ever been in my life”: HHR, 320.
“immediately forget all else”: CLE, box 10, folder 2.
“It is the end”: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 230.
“England”: CA interview W, My Second Retreat Through France, CAP, box 9.
“the rich people of Europe are here”: Charlie Scheips, Elsie de Wolfe’s Paris, 140.
“came on to Croë”: HLR to sister Anne, June 4, 1940, author collection.
“As an Englishman I hate running”: CA interview W, My Second Retreat Through France, CAP, box 9.
“cool and collected”: HLR to sister Anne, June 15, 1940, author collection.
Unless otherwise stated, Duchess of Windsor interviews from Je Suis le Prince de Galles, box 9, Cleveland Amory Papers, Boston Public Library.
“comfortable internment in their hands”: CA interview W, Je Suis Le Prince de Galles.
“pitiful but somehow revolting”: HLR to sister Anne, July 4, 1940, author collection.
“try to come back”: Ibid., July 9, 1940.
“anyone except themselves”: Neil Balfour and Sally Mackay, Paul of Yugoslavia: Britain’s Maligned Friend, 137.
“hungry and faithful” servants: DoW to Herman Rogers, December 5, 1940, estate of Mrs. H. L. Rogers.
“British government than he”: CLE, box 10, folder 2.
“I would have choked”: CA notes, CAP, box 84.
“But how primitive”: Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, 401.
No one was on first-name terms with her: Ibid., 409.
“confidential and private nature”: W letters to Mary Bourke, 1940–41, CAP, box 85.
the prime minister deemed “defeatist”: Andrew Morton, 17 Carnations, 221.
“would be to recognize me”: CA interview George Wood, CAP, box 85.
“a whole nation against one woman”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 418.
“stronghold for the future”: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 243.
“what I would do without her”: Rosa Wood to Edith Lindsay, October 25, 1942, MS 1772, Windsor Collection, MdHS.
“ ‘the duchess has to say about that’”: René MacColl, Deadline and Dateline (London: Oldbourne Press, 1956), 124–125.
“I’ve changed my mind”: CA interview George Wood, CAP, box 85.
“hand of a coloured person”: CA notes, CAP, box 85.
“It really is so intensely DULL here”: MS 1772, Windsor Collection, MdHS.
“not producing any Don Juans”: Ibid.
“I should like you for my next husband”: CA notes, CAP, box 85.
“No Buckingham Palace measures here”: CA interview George Wood, CAP, box 3.
“only two months leave”: MS 1772, Windsor Collection, MdHS.
“terrible shock” and the “irreparable loss”: Ibid.
“a bitter and disillusioned feeling”: CA notes, Rosa Wood letter to Edith Lindsay, 1944, CAP, box 85.
his luck ran out: C. Michael Hiam, Dirigible Dreams: The Age of the Airship (Lebanon, NH: ForeEdge, 2014), 118.
“we are lost. Je t’aime”: Archie Wann to Lucy Wann, January 1941, estate of Mrs. H. L. Rogers.
“He is extremely attractive, I found”: Eleanor Miles letter, August 5, 1947, MS 1772, Windsor Collection, MdHS.
“the world of the Beautiful People”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 459.
“you always deferred to their leadership”: Eleanor Lambert to Maxine Sandberg, MS2901, Windsor Collection, MdHS.
“as it had of Paris”: Kenneth de Courcy letter to unidentified recipient, November 10, 1984, Kenneth Hugh De Courcy Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University.
“imitation of his wonderful mother”: Christopher Weeks, “Perfectly Delightful”: The Life and Gardens of Harvey Ladew (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), 206–207.
“ate practically nothing at dinner”: CLE, box 6, folder 10.
“difficult to find a greater contrast”: Ibid.
“friends in adversity”: Ibid.
“from Balenciaga in Paris”: Ibid.
“our visit to England”: Ibid.
“I shall hate it to my grave”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 459.
“It has that puzzled look”: CLE, box 6, folder 10.
“poor piano player and drank champagne”: Ibid.
“to keep from thinking”: CA notes, CAP, box 85.
“not awfully bright”: Betsey Barton sketch, CAP, box 9.
“how pathetic his expression”: Miles Jebb, ed., The Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn (London: Constable, 1995), 163.
“watching his wife buy a hat”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 456.
“the Waldorf is on DC”: CA notes, CAP, box 85.
“Most distracting but an experience”: Obituary, Barbara Reid, Republican Journal (Belfast, ME), March 21, 2016.
“Did that Mozart chap write anything else”: CA notes, CAP, box 85.
“worried about her condition”: W to CC, October 7, 1948, Crowninshield-Magnus Papers, reel 5, MHS.
“hell most of the time”: Katherine Rogers to CC, March 24, 1949, Crowninshield-Magnus Papers, reel 5, MHS.
“treatment even in America”: HLR to CC, June 5, 1949, Crowninshield-Magnus Papers, reel 5, MHS.
“She was a piece of work”: Author interview, February 2016.
“Lucy knew that”: Ibid.
“Your Guardian Angel”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 522.
“hiding her feelings”: Ibid., 523.
“get what they wanted”: Author interview, February 2016.
“good wishes to my dear Lucy”: W to LLR, August 1, 1950, estate of Mrs. H. L. Rogers.
“it came out then”: Author interview, February 2016.
“That’s better”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 523.
“purposeful selfishness”: CA interview Herman Rogers, CAP, box 85.
“only man I’ve ever loved”: Author interview, February 2016.
“she had conquered the world”: Author interview, February 2016.
“Let’s talk Chinese”: CA interview HLR, box 85.
“She will never be satisfied. Never”: Ibid.
“it means money”: CA interview LLR, CAP, box 85.
“Lucy and I will stay here”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 524.
“the once king of England”: Miles Jebb, ed., The Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn, 179.
“bed in tears tonight”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 478.
“sexual perversion of self-abasement”: Quoted in Christopher Wilson, Dancing with the Devil, 175.
“work my way up”: CA notes, CAP, box 85.
“get Jessie Donahue drunk”: Ibid.
“they are much brighter than you”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 469.
“like this bit of information”: Harvey Ladew to sister Eliza Grace, November 13, 1948, Harvey S. Ladew Papers, Ladew Topiary Gardens, Monkton, MD.
“morals and won’t go”: Letter to sister Eliza Grace, November 3, 1948, Harvey S. Ladew Papers.
“their teeth and their eyeballs”: Billy Baldwin with Michael Gardine, Billy Baldwin, an Autobiography, 291.
“such kindness and generosity”: Ibid., 287.
“live out a great romance”: Christopher Wilson, Dancing with the Devil, 179.
“rushed the duchess and Jimmy”: Billy Baldwin with Michael Gardine, Billy Baldwin, an Autobiography, 295.
“almost all the others do”: Ibid.
“as rigidly un-undressable as Wallis”: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 269.
“painfully sensitive”: Billy Baldwin with Michael Gardine, Billy Baldwin, an Autobiography, 289.
“the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are phfft”: Quoted in Christopher Wilson, Dancing with the Devil, 163.
“a very sad person these days”: Ibid., 165.
“Why, they are in love”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 470.
“gave up a king for a queen”: Christopher Wilson, Dancing with the Devil, 159.
“ashamed of yourself”: CA interview Elsa Maxwell, CAP, box 85.
“this shoddy little success”: Mail on Sunday, September 21, 2014.
“awful weakness of the duke”: CA notes, CAP, box 85.
“Get out”: Christopher Wilson, Dancing with the Devil, 218.
“I’ve abdicated”: Ibid., 219.
“At last I can believe in God”: Andrea Lynn, Shadow Lovers, 322.
“the future may depict me”: W to Herman Rogers, August 1955, estate of Mrs. H. L. Rogers.
“real atmosphere to him”: Ibid.
“honesty aren’t the same thing”: CAP, box 85.
“reimbursed for their outlay”: Mss A G 669 10, Gorin Family Papers, Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
“no enthusiasm here for the project”: Daniel Longwell to Charles Murphy, July 31, 1952, Daniel Longwell Papers, Columbia University.
“I switched to Cleveland Amory”: W to Herman Rogers, August 18, 1955, estate of Mrs. H. L. Rogers.
“that wasn’t so”: Author interview, November 2015.
“not that difficult”: CA interview Noël Coward, CAP, box 85.
“take your tea in the other room”: Cleveland Amory, The Best Cat Ever, 142.
“had been the king”: Author interview, November 2015.
“drunken bickering was unbearable”: New York Times, March 18, 1979.
“begged for more”: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991), 237.
“It made me simply furious”: CA notes, CAP, box 85.
“They found him pathetic”: Author interview, November 2015.
freshly minted notes: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 464.
“stranglehold she had over him”: New York Times, March 18, 1979.
“Jews were exterminated”: Author interview, November 2015.
“Hitler was such a bad chap”: Cleveland Amory, The Best Cat Ever, 141.
“a defence of Adolf Hitler”: Ibid.
“I do love pretentious picnics, don’t you?”: Martha Amory to Mr. and Mrs. Amory, CAP, box 138.
“protocol around here is nerve jangling”: Ibid.
“no real charm”: Billy Baldwin and Michael Gardine, Billy Baldwin, an Autobiography, 292.
“ten days tomorrow”: CA notes, CAP, box 85.
“she clams up again”: Martha Amory to Mr. and Mrs. Amory, CAP, box 138.
“insatiable desire for change”: CAP, box 85.
“on the shelf with all the others”: Anthony Montague Browne, Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill’s Last Private Secretary (Ashford, Kent: Podkin Press, 2009), 225.
“TRUE story through others”: Martha Amory to Mr. and Mrs. Amory, CAP, box 138.
“don’t tell her any of this”: CA interview AB, CAP, box 85.
“no conception of unity”: CA to Kennett Rawson, CAP, box 85.
“Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”: Houston Post, October 6, 1955.
“twenty years ago”: Martha Amory to Mr. and Mrs. Amory, September 1955, CAP, box 138.
“like a viper”: W to Herman Rogers, December 28, 1955, estate of Mrs. H. L. Rogers.
“until just recently”: Herman Rogers postscript to CA letter, January 3, 1956, CAP, box 138.
“would not understand anyhow”: LLR to Cleveland and Martha Amory, October 31, 1957, CAP, box 138.
“passed in small heaters”: McCall’s press release, February 20, 1956.
“not too dull”: Baltimore News-Post, February 21, 1956.
“more than a few minutes”: Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975), 426.
“style is dignified”: W to Herman Rogers, February 26, 1956, estate of Mrs. H. L. Rogers.
“my love and understanding, Wallis”: W to LLR, estate of Mrs. H. L. Rogers.
“your and MY loss”: Ibid.
“will continue to do so”: LLR to Cleveland and Martha Amory, CAP, box 85.
“bloody shabbily treated”: Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII, 423.
“tragedies to others”: W to LLR, December 6, 1957, estate of Mrs. H. L. Rogers.
“bored countenance of the sitters”: Author interview, April 2017.
pug dog, Mr. Chou, to sit still: Trafford Klots Papers, MS 3019, MdHS.
“Morning glory”: Anthony Montague Browne, Long Sunset, 225.
“wretched personalities, completely egocentric”: New York Times, March 18, 1979.
“I have seen it scores of times”: Rex North interview Martha Amory, Sunday Pictorial, October 1955.
“We even spent Easter in bed”: New York Times, March 18, 1979.
“the robber barons”: Charles Murphy to Joe Bryan, April 3, 1972, Charles Murphy Papers, MSS 5.9 B 8405:97-160, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.
“how you doing tonight”: Author interview, February 2016.
“lamb calling for its mother”: Ibid.
“Right city, wrong woman”: Ibid.
“Mama, mama, mama, mama”: Author interview.
“in memory of Herman and the Duke”: J. Bryan III and Charles Murphy, The Windsor Story, 565.
“crowding around the garbage cans”: New York Times, March 18, 1979.
“could keep her alive forever”: Vanity Fair, June 1986.