1. Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor (London: Bantam, 1988), p. 277.
2. Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII (London: Collins, 1990), p. 79.
3. Harold Nicolson, King George V: His Life and Reign (London: Constable, 1952), p. 51.
4. Sarah Bradford, George VI (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989), p. 45.
1. Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 49.
2. Ibid., p. 64.
3. Bradford, George VI, p. 109.
4. John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI (London: Macmillan, 1958), p. 126.
5. Ibid., p. 131.
6. The Times, 21/4/17.
7. Ibid., 2/2/52.
8. Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 140.
9. William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth: The Queen Mother (London: Macmillan, 2009), p. 37.
10. Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 213.
11. Private information.
1. William Teeling, Corridors of Frustration (London: Johnson, 1970), p. 104.
2. Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 23.
3. Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, ed. William Shawcross (London: Macmillan, 2012), p. 221.
4. Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, pp. 282–3.
5. Counting One’s Blessings, p. 226.
6. Bradford, George VI, p. 180.
7. Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 286.
8. Ibid., p. 283.
9. ‘Chips’: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, ed. Robert Rhodes-James (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967), p. 100.
10. Philip Ziegler, Mountbatten (London: 2001), p. 95.
1. Robert Rhodes-James, A Spirit Undaunted: The Political Role of George VI (London: Little, Brown, 1998), p. 115.
2. Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters 1930–39, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London: Collins, 1966), p. 115.
3. Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 357.
4. Private information.
5. Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, pp. 312–13.
6. Alan Don, Diary 10/12/36 (Lambeth Palace Library).
7. Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 382.
8. Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 380.
1. Rhodes-James, George VI, p. 170.
2. Ibid., p, 189.
3. Counting One’s Blessings, p. 290.
4. Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 446.
5. Rhodes-James, George VI, p. 195.
6. Ibid., p. 447.
7. Betty Spencer Shew, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955), p. 76.
8. Rhodes-James, George VI, p. 548.
9. Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 125.
10. Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 520.
11. John G. Winant, A Letter from Grosvenor Square (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1947), p. 19.
12. Winston Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 4 (London: Cassell, 1951), pp. 657–9.
13. Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, pp. 601–5.
14. R. J. Minney, Private Papers of Hore-Belisha (London: Collins, 1960), pp. 237–8.
15. Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 412.
16. Ibid., p. 427.
1. Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 427.
2. Counting One’s Blessings, p. 385.
3. Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 8 (London: Heinemann, 1988), p. 115.
4. Rhodes-James, George VI, p. 302.
5. Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 662.
6. Counting One’s Blessings, p. 470.
7. Ashley Jackson, The British Empire and the Second World War (London: A&C Black, 2006), p. 26.
8. Rhodes-James, George VI, p. 313.
9. Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, p. 320.
10. Philip Ziegler, Crown and People (London: 1978), p. 90.