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Balfour, Neil, and Sally Mackay. Paul of Yugoslavia: Britain’s Maligned Friend. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980.

Bloch, Michael. The Duke of Windsor’s War. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982.

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Boyd, William. Any Human Heart. London, Hamish Hamilton, 2002.

Bryan, J., III, and Charles J. V. Murphy. The Windsor Story. London: Granada, 1979.

Colville, John. The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.

Cook, Blanche Wiesen. Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: 1933–1938; The Defining Years. New York: Viking, 1999.

Cooke, Anne Kirk, and Elizabeth Lightfoot. The Other Mrs. Simpson: Postscript to the Love Story of the Century. New York: Vantage, 1977.

Corrigan, Maureen. So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures. New York: Little, Brown, 2014.

Donaldson, Frances. Edward VIII. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974.

Greenwald, Marilyn. Cleveland Amory: Media Curmudgeon and Animal Rights Crusader. London: University Press of New England, 2009.

Hiam, Michael C. Dirigible Dreams: The Age of the Airship. Lebanon, NH: ForeEdge, 2014.

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Jebb, Miles, ed. The Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn. London: Constable, 1995.

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Leeds, Stanton B. Cards the Windsors Hold. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1937.

Lovell, Mary S. The Riviera Set. London: Little, Brown, 2016.

Lynn, Andrea. Shadow Lovers: The Last Affairs of H. G. Wells. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.

MacColl, René, Deadline and Dateline. London: Oldbourne Press, 1956.

Martin, Ralph G. The Woman He Loved. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973.

Masters, Brian. Great Hostesses. London: Constable, 1982.

McPherson, Mary King. Oldfields School 1867–1989: A Feeling of Family. Glencoe, MD: Oldfields School, 1989.

Mitford, Diana. The Duchess of Windsor: A Memoir. London: Gibson Square, 2011.

Montague Browne, Anthony. Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill’s Last Private Secretary. Ashford, UK: Podkin Press, 2009.

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Pope-Hennessy, James. Queen Mary 1867–1953. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1959.

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Archival Collections

Amory, Cleveland. Papers. Boston Public Library.

Bingham, Robert Worth. Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Bismarck, Mona. Papers. (File: MsB621), Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY.

Bullitt, William C. Papers. Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Castle, William R, 1918–1960. Papers. (File: MsAm2021), Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

De Courcy, Kenneth Hugh. Papers. Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, CA.

de Espil, Courtney Letts. Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

de Jumilhac, Constance Coolidge, Comtesse. Papers. Crowninshield-Magnus Papers 1834–1965, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.

Erskine, Helen Worden, 1896–1984. Papers. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Gorin family. Papers. Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY.

Howard, Jean. Papers. (Collection 10714), American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

Kinross, Patrick. Papers. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

Kirk family. Papers. Buckner Hollingsworth Papers 1911–1964, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Klots, Trafford. Papers. (File: MS3019), Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

Ladew, Harvey S. Papers. Ladew Topiary Gardens, Monkton, MD.

Leslie, Sir Shane. Papers. Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Longwell, Daniel. Papers. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Messersmith, George S. Papers. Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE.

Murphy, Charles. Papers. (File: Mss 5.9 B 8405:97-160), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.

Mustin, Henry. Papers. (File: MS52860), Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Sandberg, Maxine. Papers. (File: MS 2901), Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

Sinclair, Upton. Papers. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

Sykes, Christopher. Papers. Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Tree, Ronald. Papers. (File: Mss1L2653 B281-362), Langhorne collection, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.

Warfield family, 1801–1960. Papers. Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries, Hornbake Library, College Park, MD.

Weddell, Alexander. Papers. (Mss1W4126 CFA2 Box4), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.

Windsor, Duchess of. Papers. (File: MS. 1772), Duke and Duchess of Windsor Scrapbooks, 1936–1938, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.