Abdication Act (1936) 1, 42, 142
Acheson, Dean 247
Adeane, Sir Michael 231, 306, 310
Aga Khan 125
Al Fayed, Mohamed 335
Albert, Prince (‘Bertie’), see George VI
Alexander, Julie Chatard 318
Alexander, Ulick, Keeper of the Privy Purse 5, 7, 26, 347
Alexandra, Queen 28
Alfonso, King of Spain 111
Allen, Sir George 29, 81, 283, 298, 301
Alzheimer’s disease 316
Amiguet, Maurice 304–6
Amory, Cleveland 254–5, 297–8, 340–1, 359
Amory, Martha 298
Anderson, John 200–1
Anglo-German Agreement (1940) 141
Anglo-German Naval Agreement 39
Annan, Noel 284
antisemitism 39, 56, 107, 240, 300, 360
appeasement 124, 150, 153, 246
Arbeitersfront 36
Arlington Cemetery 53
Ashburton, Lord 305
Athlone, Lord 121, 158, 161, 210, 211
Attfield, Philip 38, 47, 51, 52, 81
Attlee, Clement 224, 226, 235, 250
Austria:
Windsors and Donahue holiday in 295–6
Avon, Lord 163
Bahamas:
Bay Street Boys 169–70, 175, 196, 198, 209
Oakes’s murder in 191–207
as staging post 168
Windsor as Governor of 113–220, 232–3, 264, 301–2, 326, 354, 357
Windsor Training Farms 171
Windsors visit (1947) 249–50
Baker, Edith 273
Baldridge, Letitia 257
Baldwin, Billy 271, 281, 286–7
Baldwin, Stanley 3, 11, 27, 41, 73, 345, 355, 356
Barker, Capt. James 192–3, 195–6
Barnes, Sir Thomas 22
Bartlett, Lillian 65
Bate, Fred 81
Bates, Charles 205
Beaton, Cecil 28–9, 264, 271, 288, 291, 315–16, 318, 322, 326, 336
Beaverbrook, Lord 81–2, 95–6, 174, 204–5, 207, 253
Bedaux, Charles 21, 30, 35–8, 45, 50–1, 53–6, 75, 89–90, 98, 142, 157, 186–9, 210, 225, 235, 357
Bedaux, Fern 30, 36, 42, 53, 53–4, 357
Beigbeder, Col. Juan 107
Belgium 68, 90–1, 94–5, 98, 250
Berle, Adolf 111, 142, 153, 161, 184
Berlin, Irving 274
Bermejillo, Don Javier (‘Tiger’) 119–20, 125
Bermuda 122, 133, 141, 184, 187
Bernays, Robert 12
Biddle, Margaret 289
Birkenhead, Lord 73
Bismarck, Count Edward (‘Eddie’) 344
Blackwood, Caroline 64
Blair, Kitty 262
Blum, Suzanne 267, 327, 328–9, 332, 333
Bocca, Geoffrey 204–5
Borromean Islands 331
Borromeo, Prince 331
Boulevard Suchet 75, 77, 79, 241
Bowers, Scotty 347–8
Boyden, Maj. Hayne 161
Boyer, David 256
Brand, Robert 156
Braun, Eva 51
British-American Ambulance Corps 159
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 91, 92, 100
British Legion 39
British Union of Fascists 11, 15, 33, 95
Brockhurst, Gerald 291
Bronard, Ernest 197
Brooks, Collin 67–8
Brown, Craig 353
Brownlow, Kitty 67
Brownlow, Lord 7
Bruce, David 317
Bryan, Joseph (‘Joe’) 317, 329
Bucard, Marcel 155
Buckingham Palace 11, 15, 17, 42, 64, 69, 78, 217, 224, 261, 302, 319–20
Budd, Frank 172–3
Bullitt, William 157, 194–5, 328
Burckhardt, Dr Carl 110
Burton, Richard 315
Burton, Sir Pomeroy 68
Cadogan, Sir Alexander (‘Alec’) 96–7, 115, 121–2, 136, 151, 235, 357
Caernarfon Castle 312
Callas, Maria 288
Camacho, Gen. Maximino Avila 147
Cambridge, Bert 182
Campbell, Sir Ronald 163
Campbell (valet) 256
Canada 55, 113, 121, 143, 161, 174, 211
Capote, Truman 269
Carlyle, W.L. 158
Carol, King of Romania 172
Carroll, Madeleine 193–4
Catling, Patrick Skene 176–7
Cavendish-Bentinck, Bill 222
Cay, Lyford 198
censorship 152, 156, 184, 187, 200–1, 226
Chamberlain, Neville 10, 73, 79, 96, 124, 140
Investiture 312
Charlot, Count 345
Château de Candé 21–2, 27, 29–30, 187
Château de la Croë (‘Chateau des Rois’) 68–70, 77, 82–3, 94, 103, 120, 241–3, 253
Cheke, Marcus 185
Chevalier, Maurice 242
China Dossier 344–6
Christie, Harold 191–2, 197–207
Chrysler, Walter, Jr (‘Mary’) 270–1
Church of England 8, 11, 26, 353
Churchill, Randolph 29
Churchill, Winston 2, 4, 13, 29, 98, 106–15, 119–22, 127, 130, 135, 145, 147, 156–7, 160, 164, 167, 210–11, 224, 292, 301, 338–9, 345, 358–9
Admiralty appointment of 86
Attlee writes to 226–7
40th wedding anniversary 253
memoirs 240
“mixing-up process” 235
telebiography 311
Windsor offered Bahamas posting 113–14
Windsor writes to 151–2
Windsor’s correspondence with 106, 174, 182–3, 216–20
Clarence House 303
Clementine, Clementine 29
Coburg, Duke of 40
Coke, Sir John 345
Colis de Trianon 94
Colville, John 145
Comacho, Maximinio 200
communism 39, 42, 78, 84, 107, 115, 240, 354
concentration camps 49–50
‘The Contract’ 168
Cooper, Duff 234, 239, 241, 243
Cooper, Lady Diana 234, 240, 254–5, 263–4, 271, 276, 339
Coronation Service 25
Coward, Noël 83, 242, 268, 269, 309, 347
Cranborne, Lord 171
Cunard, Lady Emerald 28, 39, 41, 240, 355
Curran, Charles 309
Cusick, Daniel 204
Czechoslovakia 61
Datalounge 269–70
Dauglish, John 173
Davidson, John 41
Davidson, Maj. Colin 162
Davis, Joe 252
de Courcy, Kenneth 237, 243–4, 252, 261–2, 267, 327, 339, 341, 343, 345
de Gaulle, RADM Philip 328
de Marigny, Count Alfred 192–200, 201, 203
de Tajo, Nava 185–6
de Valera, Éamon 252
de Wolfe, Elsie 60, 69, 78, 79, 94, 254, 268, 367
Dennis, Geoffrey 83
Diana, Princess of Wales 335
Dodds, Hugh 105
Donahue, Jessie 266, 273, 276, 295, 296, 299
Donahue, Jimmy 265–7, 269, 271–7, 279–81, 285, 289, 295–6, 299–300
Donaldson, Frances 267
Dormoy, Marcelle 64–5
Doubleday, Rhoda Tanner 212–13
Douglas, Lord Alfred 82
Drian, Etienne 285
Drummond, Edwina 65–6
Drummond, George 66
Drummond, Honora 66
Drummond, Kathleen 65
Dudley, Eric 288
Dugdale, Blanche 11
Dugdale, Tommy 345
Duke of Windsor Foundation 328
Dulles, John Foster 82
Dunne, Dominick 348
Dunphie, Richard 246
Dupuch, Etienne 191–2
Dyot, Monsieur 75
Eastwood, Christopher 145, 147
Eccles, David 107, 113, 127, 357–8
Eden, Sir Anthony 44, 50, 107, 294, 300, 358
Edward, Duke of Windsor
30th anniversary of abdication of 309–13
Abdication speech 3–5, 11, 309, 311
BBC interview 312–13
before ascension, see Edward, Prince of Wales
biographies 34, 260, 267–8, 278, 283, 297–9, 307–8, 310–11, 314, 316, 318, 346, 354
CBS interview 299
death of 318–20
depression suffered by 13, 16, 178, 266, 272
Elizabeth II meets 310, 311, 317
exile begins 5–6
financial settlement/affairs 10, 60, 106, 112, 210–11, 240, 285, 305, 311
46th birthday 104
German tour (1937) 42–6, 47–57, 66
as Governor of the Bahamas see under Bahamas
Hitler has tea with 51–2
illegitimate children claims 63–7, 364
as king, see Edward VIII
King’s post-Abdication meeting with 87
lavish lifestyle 256–8
Liberty Magazine article 144, 150–2, 153, 162
‘Little Man’ sobriquet 307
McCall’s articles 297, 307–8, 337
memoirs 278, 283–4, 285, 297, 310
mother’s correspondence with 173, 178–9
New York Daily News articles 311
peace movement ambitions of 36, 56, 95–6, 107, 111, 120, 122–3, 137–8, 142–6, 150, 360
Prince Charles visits 313–14, 317
as Prince of Wales, see Edward, Prince of Wales
pro-German sympathies 2, 15–16, 38–40, 39, 46, 51, 54–7, 67, 78–9, 90, 95, 107–8, 113–15, 117–31, 133–4, 142–3, 150, 151, 156, 165, 172, 185, 231–2, 355–6, 359, 360 (see also Marburg File)
protection detail 5, 10, 38, 47, 51–2, 76, 81, 125, 367, 368
rose in honour of 288
roving ambassadorship sought by 174, 211
‘Second Abdication’ 219
seen as security risk 40–2, 52
sexuality 62–3, 267–71, 340–8, 350
style consciousness 307–8
tax affairs 20, 59, 76, 96, 106, 109, 210, 237, 240, 253, 256, 285, 290, 326
trust/security issues 9, 35–8, 71, 81, 87, 89–91, 105–8, 133–4, 142–52, 153–65, 172, 174, 184–5, 356, 357–8
US address given by 81–2
US surveillance of 153–65
US tour (1937) 53–6
Wallis engaged to 28
Wallis marries 17, 21, 22–3, 25–32, 72, 319
Wallis reunited with 25
withdraws from public life 56
Edward, Prince of Wales (‘David’) 8–9, 37, 39, 65–6, 69, 70, 137, 159, 209, 212, 232–3, 259, 290–1, 305, 307, 336, 339, 347, 352, 355–6, 360
after abdication, see Edward, Duke of Windsor
Indian tour (1922) 16
as king, see Edward VIII
sexuality 269
Edward VIII 22, 37, 39, 40, 48, 137, 210, 233, 243, 264, 280, 290, 299, 315, 339, 352, 355
abdication of 1, 4, 10–13, 15, 18, 27, 34–5, 42, 72, 82–3, 87, 142, 154, 158, 217, 260, 284, 287, 304, 309–11, 336, 350, 353, 356, 359–61, 363
coronation planning 25
death of 318–20
German plan to reinstate 154–5, 355–6, 355–8
sexuality 268
Wallis introduced to 8
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 227, 232, 292
Eldridge, Mona 267, 340, 342, 350, 351
Elizabeth II 262, 298, 310–11, 317, 334, 360
before ascension, see Elizabeth, Princess
coronation of 289
Windsor’s meetings with 285, 310–11, 322
Elizabeth, Princess:
Africa tour (1952) 285
Philip marries 251
as queen, see Elizabeth II
riding lessons 66
Elizabeth, Queen 17, 44–5, 71–3, 81–2, 89, 109, 113, 152, 186, 218
as Queen Mother, see Queen Mother
Ellsworth, Lincoln158
Elphinstone, Lord 229
Erskine, Helen Worden 8
Erskine-Lindop, Reggie 175, 191, 198–9
Espil, Courtney de 350
Espil, Courtney Letts de 137
Espil, Felipe de 350
Europa 53
Farkas, Alexander 330–1
FBI 138–48, 153–5, 160–1, 164, 176, 186–9, 192–8, 202–6, 212–15, 271, 344, 365
Field, Leslie 246
financial settlement 10, 17–21
First World War 16, 35, 39, 64, 103, 104, 112, 260, 287, 354
Fort Belvedere 4, 10, 12, 17, 41, 69, 237, 244, 286
Forwood, Dudley 33, 37, 48, 50, 52, 269, 343, 346
Fowler, John 286
France 91–2
Germany invades 98–101
relief organisations 94
secret service 280
Windsor Liaison Officer in 98–9, 138
Windsors exiled to 5–6, 71, 88–9
Windsors surveilled in 280–1, 329
Franco, Gen. Francisco 104, 107, 125, 223
Frazier, Brenda 139
Frederick, Evans 65
Frederick III of Prussia 229
Friedberg, Lionel 348
Führerprinzip (leader principle) 16
Fuller, Maj.-Gen. J.C.F. 95
Furness, Lady 8
Furness, Thelma 64
Game, Sir Philip 63
George, Duke of Kent 2, 5, 82, 105, 111, 157–8, 231
death of 177–8
George IV 1, 234, 252, 287, 351
George V 9, 28, 65, 69, 320, 345
bullying nature of 346
George VI 2, 3, 5, 17–19, 27, 40, 42–4, 60, 66, 71, 89, 92, 109, 113–15, 173, 183, 186, 216, 218, 360
brother seen as threat to 72–4
coronation of 10, 25, 28, 83, 287, 289
death of 285
Memorial Chapel 312
US tour undertaken by 82
‘Windsor file’ see under Germany
Windsor’s post-Abdication meeting with 87
Germany:
Britain declares war on 84
Edward VIII reinstatement plan 154–5, 185–6, 355–6
France invaded by 98–101
Operation Willi 117–31, 167, 358
Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact (1939) 221
secret service 104
US liberates documents from 221–37
‘Windsor file’ 221–37, 246–8, 269, 292–5, 301–2, 309, 357–8
Windsors courted by 51–2, 66, 100, 104–5, 108, 110, 115, 117–31, 154–5, 161–2, 167, 221–37, 231–2, 354, 354–8, 358
Windsors tour (1937) 42–6
Getty, Paul 52
Ghislaine, Princess 288
Gladwyn, Cynthia 250, 299, 344
Goering, Hermann 15, 45, 49, 100, 140, 142, 147, 155, 185
Gordon, Alice 137
Gordon, G.A. 141
Gort, Lord 92
Government House 133–7, 143, 147–8, 155–6, 168, 180, 182, 191
Graftieaux, Marie-Leonie 64–5
Graftieaux, Pierre-Edouard 65
Great Britain:
Colonial Office 122, 146, 150, 154, 169, 175–6, 193–6, 199, 203, 209
declares war on Germany 79
Food Mission 156
foreign policy 79
Hitler orders attack on, see Battle of Britain
negotiated settlement 150
Public Record Office 163
Purchasing Commission 154
Greenacre, Douglas 320
Gregoire, Armand 15
Guedalla, Philip 82
Halifax, Dorothy 159
Halifax, Lord 71, 100, 123, 124, 159, 160, 163, 184, 194, 224, 228, 235–6
Halsey, Lionel 9
Halstead, Stanley E. 205
Hamilton, Hildegarde 203
Hanover, Prince Ernst August von 230
Haore, Sam 114
Harris, David 227
Harris, Kenneth 312
Harris, Wilf 65
Harrison, Rex 277–9
Harrison, Sir Geoffrey 47
Haslam, Nicky 267, 269, 281, 346
Hauser, Gayelord 349
Haussmann, Georges-Eugène 290
Heape, Leslie 141, 169, 175, 209
Hempel, Eduard 124
Henderson, Neville 43
Henderson, Sir Neville 47
Henry, Duke of Gloucester 2, 346
Henry-Hay, Gaston 176
Hesse archive 229–32
Hesse, Fritz 40
Hewel, Walther 125
Hickerson, John 227
Higham, Charles 62, 103–4, 157, 163, 268, 346
Hilfiger, Tommy 336
Himmler, Heinrich 48
Hitler, Adolf 15, 16, 29, 35, 37, 39, 42, 67, 100, 125, 142, 150, 154, 156, 162, 223, 231–2, 248, 360
Directive No. 17 ordered by 131
50th birthday parade 95
Reichstag speech 123
Windsors courted by see under Germany
Windsor’s telegram to 83
Hivet, Denise 256
Hoare, Samuel 104, 106–7, 109, 124, 301
Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Prince Max zu 110, 125
Hohenlohe, Stephanie von 355
Holmes, Leslie 245–6
homosexuality 62–3, 112, 267–71, 281, 295, 346, 347, 350
Hoover, J. Edgar 153, 155, 161, 188, 195, 205, 213–14
Hopkins, Harry 145
Hore-Belisha, Leslie 88
Hotel Bristol 35
Hotel Meurice 60
Houts, Marshall 206
Howard-Vyse, Maj.-Gen. Sir Richard 88, 92–3, 101
Howe, Capt. Cecil 7
Howe, Polly 252
Hoyningen-Huene, Baron Oswald von 118, 128, 131
Huntington, Robert Palmer 155
Hutton, Barbara 265, 271, 340–1
indiscretion 12, 41, 118, 122, 182, 354
Instrument of Abdication, see Abdication Act
Inverchapel, Lord 247
Ironside, Lord Edmund 89–90
isolationism 82, 137–8, 144, 151, 158, 160, 279
Italy 35, 68, 72, 110, 124, 319
James, ADM Sir William 86
Jardine, Revd Robert Anderson 26
Jelke, Frazier 156
Jones, Alice Hill 170
Keeler, Leonard 202
Kelley, Newell 204
Kelly, Madeline 191
Kelly, Sir David 110
Kenmare, Lady 276
Kent, Duke and Duchess 319–20, 335
Kent, Tyler 356
Khan, Aly 328
kidnapping fears 83–4, 109, 117–31, 118, 167, 358
Killan, Isaak 233
Kinna, Martin 99
Kirkpatrick, Sir Ivone 294–5
Knox, Sir George 38
Kopp, Rudolf 75
Ladbroke, George 2
Ladew, Harvey 268
LaGuardia, Mayor 159
Lambert, Margaret 293–4
Lancaster, Nancy 286
Lanchester, Elsa 269
Lansky, Meyer 196
Lascelles, Sir Alan (‘Tommy’) 12, 115, 210, 217–18, 223–5, 228, 234–6, 244, 260, 342, 357
Laura, Duchess of Marlborough 335
Law, Nigel 52
Lawford, Valentine 78–80
Le Franc, Greg 15
Le Franciste 15
Le Moulin de la Tuilerie (‘the Mill’) 258, 286–8, 302–3, 325
Le Vien, Jack 310–11
League of Nations 35
Leahy, ADM William 149–50
Lebensraum (‘living space’) 100
Legros, René 256
Leinhardt, Dr Gaea 340, 359–60
Leopold III of Belgium 68, 250
Leslie, Leonie 228
Letters Patent 27
Liddell, Guy 146, 222–3, 225, 229, 244, 357
Lindsay, Sir Ronald 43–5, 54–5
Lloyd George, David 124
Lloyd, Lord 113, 121, 133, 145, 147
Lockhart, Robert Bruce 39
Loesch, Carl von 222–3
Loesch, Karl 221–2
Loftus, John 231
Lothian, Lord Philip 110, 123, 123–4, 136–8, 142–3, 143
Louis XV 60
Louis XVI 290
Luce, Henry 260
McCormick, Harold 212
Macdonald, Peter 65
Mackenzie, Compton 34
McKinney, Basil 198
Mackintosh, Alastair (‘Ali’) 154, 155, 288
Mackworth-Young, Sir Robin 327
McMullin, John 268
Mafalda, Princess 62
Majava, Edward 203–4
Marburg File 221–37, 246–8, 269, 292–5, 301–2, 309, 357–8
Marbury, Elisabeth 60
Marchant, Ronald 256
Margaret, Princess of Hesse 229
Maria (maid) 333
Marie Antoinette 254
Marie Jose, Queen of Italy 68
Marina, Princess 312
Marlborough House 234, 311, 320
Maroni, Madame 61–3
Marquis, John 206
Marshall, George 247
Martin (gardener/chauffeur) 333
Marvell, Andrew 2
death of 310
Mary, Queen (Mary of Teck) 2, 5, 17, 25, 69, 72, 81, 89, 161, 218, 228, 290, 302, 311, 345–6
death of 289
80th birthday 250
moral cowardice 304
Wallis writes to 173
Windsor’s post-war visits to 234, 250, 289
Massey, Lucien 256
Massigli, Rene 216
Masters, John 305
Melchen, Capt. Edward 192, 195
Mendl, Lady Elsie 60, 69, 78, 79, 94, 254, 268, 367
Mendl, Sir Charles 60, 79, 268
Menzies, Sir Stewart 151
Merman, Ethel 273–4
Merriman, Mrs (‘Aunt Bessie’) 29–30, 60, 184, 195, 209
Messersmith, George 35, 36, 149, 161
Metcalfe, Baba 17, 19, 28–31, 85–6, 88–9, 99, 100, 335
Metcalfe, Edward (‘Fruity’) 16–17, 19, 28, 29, 89, 99–101, 268–9, 296, 297
Metcalfe, Lady Alexandra 341
Mexico 141, 147–8, 172, 198–200, 202
Michael, Princess of Kent 335
MI5 98, 146, 157, 222–6, 229, 231, 244, 356–8, 368
Mirville, Eric 66–7
Mr Loo (dog), see Slipper
Moats, Alice 274
Monckton, Alexandra 310
Monckton, Biddy 329
Monckton, Walter 2–5, 11, 18, 27, 29, 31–2, 73, 80, 83–4, 86, 92–3, 96, 109, 121, 135, 211, 224, 283, 290, 294, 304–5, 309–10
Mooney, James D. 143, 148–9, 160, 184, 256
Morgenthau, Henry 163
Morrison, Sarah 257
Morshead, Owen 248
Morshead, Sir Owen 228–30
Morton, Desmond 130
Mosley, Diana 38–9, 207, 335, 346
Mosley, Sir Oswald 11, 15, 33, 40, 223, 359
mother fixation 63
Moulichon, Marguerite 120
Mountbatten, Lord Louis (‘Dickie’) 4, 26, 261–2, 268, 316–17, 319, 320, 321, 327–8, 333
first command of 86
Mountbatten, Philip, see Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Moyne, Lord 151
Muir, Campbell 246
Munargo 142
Mundy, Rodney 246
Munster, Count Paul 33
Murphy, Charles 77, 93, 257, 260–1, 283, 297, 308, 317, 341
Murphy, Robert 188
Murphy, Sir William 203
Murrow, Ed 299
Mussolini, Benito 15, 35, 223, 300
Nash, Kathleen 229
National Labour Front 47, 48, 52
Nazi propaganda 47–8
Neumann, Anna 33
neutrality 122
Nicolson, Harold 12, 71, 96, 300–1
Nixon, Richard 319
NKVD 106
Normanton, Helena 28
Noyes, Newbold 14–15
Nuremberg Trials 228
Nype, Russell 273–5
Oakes, Nancy 192, 197, 202, 205
Oakes, Sir Harry 143–4, 191–207
Ogilvie-Forbes, Sir George 47, 50–1
Ogilvy, Bruce 268
Onassis, Aristotle 359
Operation Belvedere 260
Operation Cleopatra Whim 120
Operation Willi 117–31, 167, 358
Page, Eddie 269
Page, Russell 287
Palmer, Arnold 286
Palmer, Lilli 277–9
Parker, John 66
Patton, Gen. George S. 231
Paul, Maury 273
Peck, John 121
Pegler, Westbrook 274
Pell, Herbert 122
Pemberton, Maj. Herbert 192
Perkins, C.A. 172
Perkins, Dr Ralph 221
Pétain, Philippe 100, 124, 186, 354
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 261, 261–2, 285, 312, 322–3, 327, 334–5, 335
marriage of 251
Philipp, Prince of Hesse 62, 231
Phillips, Gray 103, 111–12, 133, 191, 288
Phillips, Wallace B. 172
Philpotts, Alan 304
Pinaudier (chef) 70
Plantagenet, House of 25
Pleven, René 282
Pope-Hennessy, James 302–4
Portago, Marquesa de 288
Porter, Cole 252
Portugal 111–12, 118–19, 125, 129–30, 161, 186, 223, 226, 247, 292, 301, 368
300th celebrations 105–6
Post, Marjorie Merriweather 252
Pownall, Henry 91
Price, Douglas 232
Pringle, John 182
Privy Council 17
‘The Project’ 168
The Project 168
protocol 9, 71, 110, 178, 217, 247, 249, 277, 279, 289
Prsini, Princess 213
Puerto Rico 149–50
Putlitz, Wolfgang zu 98
Pye, Michael 182
Quackenbush, Dr Hugh 192
as queen consort, see Elizabeth, Queen
Wallis meets 311–12, 319–21, 332–3
Queenborough, Lord 17
Reith, Sir John 3
Renner, Bettie 204
Rhodesia 174
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 11, 15, 16, 28, 39, 41, 47, 48, 97, 110, 112, 118–19, 124–6, 128–31, 138–9, 142, 161, 185, 213–14, 221–5, 232, 355
Rivera, Miguel Primo de 125, 127, 128–31
Roberts, Cecil 250–1
Robinson, Kenneth 150
Rogers, Herman 4, 21–3, 30, 187, 262–3, 298
Rogers, Katherine 4, 22, 30, 186–7, 262
Roland, Claude 331
Romanones, Countess Aline of 322–3, 325, 333–5, 349
Roosevelt, Eleanor 53
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (‘FDR’) 53, 138, 140, 142, 144–5, 153, 171, 175, 216, 300
Rothschild, Baron Eugene 11, 13, 30
Rothschild, Baron Maurice de 185
Rothschild, Kitty 11, 13–14, 16, 20, 30
Rothschild, Victor 356
Route du Champ d’Entraînement 290–2, 332
Rowan, Louis 213
Royal Air Force (RAF) 112, 158, 168, 179–80, 192, 319–20, 334
Royal Tours 160
United States (1937) 53–6
Runcie, Robert 335
Russell, Alison 175
Russell, Peter 117
St George’s Chapel 290, 312, 320–2, 334
Salazar, António de Oliveira 130
Salis, Capt. John de 91
Sandringham 1, 18, 19, 104, 285
Sargent, Orme 16
Sassoon, Siegfried 62
Schacht, Hjalmar 35
Schafranek, Karl 75
Schellenberg, Walter 126–7, 225, 294
Schlee, George 278–9
Schlesinger, John 348
Schloss Enzesfeld 11–20
Schmidt, Paul 51
Schultz, Joanna 333
Schumann, Maurice 319
Scoppa, Renato Bova 128
Scotland Yard 10, 33, 38, 192, 203, 205, 245
Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert 1
Seal, Eric 115
Sears, Capt. Edward 198
Sebastian, Georges 72
‘Second Abdication’ 219
Second World War 329
Allied War Council 97–8
Britain enters 84
countdown to 75–84
France invaded 98–101
Phoney War 85–101
VJ Day 224
Seely family
Sefton, Hugh (‘Foxy’) 265, 268, 331
Selby, Lady 29
Selby, Sir Walford 13–14, 29, 43
Selous, Gerald 185
sexuality 62–3, 112, 267–71, 281, 295
Shanley, Oonagh 318
Shaw, George Bernard 60
Silva, Dr Ricardo de Espiritu Santo e 112, 117–18, 122, 129–30, 133, 225–6, 235
Silverberg, Capt. David 221
Simpson, Ernest 8, 15, 22, 53, 119, 297, 327
Simpson, Wallis Warfield, see Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
death of 22–3
Sloan, Alexander 164
Sloan, Alfred P. 148
Smith, Gen. Walter Bedell 292
Smuts, Jan 174
Soames, Mary 320
Solbert, Oscar 36–7
Spain 103–5, 110–11, 119, 124–7, 186, 247, 253, 284, 292, 301, 364
Spain, Nancy 284
Special Branch reports 9, 40, 73
Spellman, Cardinal Francis 143, 273
Spooner, Doreen 280
spying 15, 33, 35, 47, 90, 98, 104, 110, 112, 140, 143–9, 155, 160–1, 188, 223, 225, 231, 235, 355–6, 356
SS Totenkopf (Death’s Head) 48
Stanley, Oliver 209
state visits:
France 1938 72
France 1972 317
Stephenson, Sir John 185
Stevenson, Cyril 205
Stewart, James B. 148
Stewart, William Rhinelander 154
Stohrer, Eberhard von 105, 112, 119, 125–6, 130, 223
Stopes, Marie 82
Storrier, David 5, 38, 367, 368
Stowe, Leland 142
Stulpnagel, Gen. Otto von 188
Sulzberger, Cyrus (‘Cy’) 281–2, 314
Swaffer, Hannen 54
Sweet, Paul 292
Switzerland 110, 130, 161, 253, 316
Talmadge, Constance 154
Tamm, Edward 213
Taylor, Elizabeth 271, 288, 315
Templewood, Lord 301
Thatcher, Margaret 335
Thomas Hugh Lloyd 29
Thomas, Jim 150
Thomson, Col. Robert 221
Thornley, Clifford 176
tours, see Royal Tours:
Germany (1937) 42–6
New Zealand (1920) 65
Travers, Howard K. 36
Treachery Act (1940) 134
Trevor-Roper, Hugh 231
Trinidad 198–9
Trooping of the Colour 321
Trujillo, Rafael 150
Tunisia 72
Tuscaloosa 144
Tyrnauer, Matt 348
Tyrrell, William 56
Umberto, King of Italy 319
United States (US):
Lend–Lease Act 144
peace negotiations 138
State Department 36, 141, 146–50, 172, 184, 186, 199, 221–7, 246, 292, 301
Windsors surveilled by 153–65, 172
Windsors tour (1937) 53–6, 186
USSR 39, 106, 108, 115, 186, 223, 231, 251–2
Utter, John 258, 320, 329, 331, 333, 351
Vanderbilt, Cornelius 195
Vansittart, Sir Robert 38, 41, 42, 123, 355, 356
Velasco, Ángel Alcázar de (‘Viktor’) 127
Vernay, Arthur 249
‘Vicky letters’ 229–31
Victor Emmanuel, King 62
Victoria, Empress of Prussia 229
Villa Lou Vei 4
Visdelou, Marquis Georges de 196, 201
Vivian, Valentine 150
Vreeland, Diana 331–2
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor 2–4, 297, 299, 326, 330
affairs of 9, 40, 155, 265–84, 285, 289, 295–6, 299–300, 350, 352
ambitious nature 10, 44–5, 111, 186, 213, 311, 351, 351–2
American Mercury profile 213–16
BBC interview 312–13
biographies 268–9
at Buckingham Palace 320–1
CBS interview 299
David marries 21, 22–3, 25–32, 319
David reunited with 25
David’s death 318–22
death and funeral of 334–5, 334–6, 350
Donahue affair 265–81, 285, 289, 295–6, 299, 299–300
Elizabeth II meets 310, 311, 317
final years 325–36
44th birthday 103
France Soir photos 332
German tour (1937) 42–6, 47–57
guilt suffered by 33–4
Hitler has tea with 51–2
household accounts 77–8
‘HRH’ denied to 27–8, 34, 71, 182–3, 234–5, 285, 335
ill health 216, 275, 314–19, 321–2, 327–9, 331–4
inheritance 326
jewellery theft 244–6
lavish lifestyle 9, 40, 136–7, 139, 154, 159, 163–4, 215–16, 254–9, 266–7, 272, 349–50
Lindsay’s analysis of 45
McCall’s interview 337–8
memoirs 296, 297, 299, 307, 326, 330
papers/heirlooms retrieved from 327–8, 333
permanent exile 239–64
Prince Charles meets 317, 321–2
pro-German sympathies 9, 10, 15–16, 39–41, 51–2, 113, 115, 138–9, 142, 156, 165, 185, 355
Queen Mother meets 310–12, 319–21, 332–3
sexuality 340–8
soup kitchen operated by 94
trust/security issues 41–2, 71, 90, 99, 106–7, 150, 153–65, 183, 184–5, 226–7, 355
US surveillance of 153–65
Windsor engaged to 28
Windsor introduced to 7–8
Windsor marries 17
Wallis, Duke of Windsor, affairs of 345
Walters, Mary 275
Wanger, Etta 308
Wann, Lucy 262–3
Ward, Freda Dudley 63–4, 66, 340
Wardell, Mike 268
Warfield, Gen. (‘Uncle Harry’) 159
Warfield, Wallis, see Simpson, Wallis
Washington Evening Star 14
Watson, Brig. Edwin 138
Webster, Tony 76
Weddell, Alexander 111
Weill, Paul 328
Weizsäcker, Baron Ernst von 97, 222
Welczeck, Count Johannes von 82
Welles, Orson 311
Welsh Guards 16
Wenner-Gren, Axel 45–6, 139–42, 145–8, 153–4, 156–7, 164–5, 172, 184, 199–202, 210, 235
Wertheim, Pat 199–200
Westminster, Duke of 112
Weygand, Maxime 186
Wheeler-Bennett, John (‘Jack’) 11, 247, 248, 358
Wigram, Clive 9
Wilde, Oscar 60
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 248
Willemotte, Ernest 256
William, Duke of Cumberland 1
Williams, Henry (‘Hank’) 285
Williams-Taylor, Sir Frederick 201
Wilson, Charles 347
Winchell, Walter 274
Windmill, Bob 156
Windsor Awards 299
Windsor Castle 3, 85, 289, 290, 312, 320–2, 334
Windsor, Duke of, see Edward VIII
Windsor Great Park 1
‘Windsor problem’ 88–9, 209, 217, 223, 314
Wiseman, Sir William 142–3
Wolkoff, Anna 356
Wood, George 103–4, 133, 218–19
Woodward, Ernest Llewellyn 222
Worden, Helen 213–16
Wright, Peter 231
Wrightsman, Charles and Jayne 326
Württemberg, Duke Carl Alexander of 161
Wyatville, Sir Jeffry 1
Young, Robert 158, 212, 249, 359
Zech-Burkersroda, Count Julius von 97–8