PROLOGUE
1. Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1863, vol. xxxiii, p. 311.
2. Horace Walpole, Letters, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1905.
CHAPTER ONE
1. It was removed by George III. Quoted Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace, Country Life Ltd., 1931.
2. Walford, Edward, Old and New London., 8 vols., Cassell Peter & Galpin, London, 1897.
3. ibid.
4. See Bruce Graeme, The Story of Buckingham Palace, Hutchinson & Co., 1928.
5. ibid.
6. Quoted Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace, from Charles Gatty, Mary Davies and The Manor of Ebury.
7. See Bruce Graeme, The Story of Buckingham Palace.
8. Sir Charles Sedley, The Mulberry Garden, 1675.
9. John Evelyn, Diary, vol. 2,10 May 1654, ed. William Brag, J. Dent & Sons, 1907.
10. Samuel Pepys, Diary, vol. 2, 5 April 1669, ed. H. Wheatley, 8 vols., G. Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 1924.
11. Samuel Pepys, Diary, vol. 2,10 July 1660.
12. John Evelyn, Diary, vol. 2, 29 March 1665.
13. Thomas Macaulay, History of England, ed. Henderson, Routledge, 1909.
14. Comte de Gramont, Memoirs, transl. Peter Quennell, London, 1930.
15. Samuel Pepys, Diary, vol. 2, 10 July 1666.
16. Samuel Pepys, Diary, vol. 2, 24 June 1667.
17. John Evelyn, Diary, vol. 2,1 August 1672.
18. John Evelyn, Diary, vol. 2, 6 November 1679.
19. John Evelyn, Diary, vol. 2, 26 October 1683.
20. John Evelyn, Diary, vol. 2,17 April 1673.
21. John Evelyn, Diary, vol. 2, 21 September 1674.
22. See Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace.
23. John Dryden, The Poems of John Dryden, ed. James Kinsley, 4 vols., Clarendon Press, 1903–5.
24. Quoted Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace, from the Surveyor General’s Report, 1698.
25. Thomas Macaulay, History of England.
26. ibid.
27. Quoted Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace, from A New View of London, 1708.
28. John Sheffield, letter to Duke of Shrewsbury. Complete Works, 2 vols., 1740.
29. Quoted Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace, from vol. 1, p. 117.
30. Horace Walpole, Letters, 8 vols., Clarendon Press, Oxford.
31. Alexander Pope, The Character of Katherine, late Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby, M. Cooper 1764.
32. B. M. Original Papers, vol. 1 1743–84 Folio 9; B. M. Original Papers, General Meeting, vol. 1., 2 April 1754, GM29.
CHAPTER TWO
1. It was removed by George III. Quoted Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace, Country Life Ltd., 1931.
2. Horace Walpole, Letters, to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at Florence.
3. ibid.
4. Quoted E. S. Turner, The Court of St James, Michael Joseph, 1959, from Court & City Register.
5. The Diaries of Mrs Lybbe Powys, ed. E. J. Climenson, Longman, 1899.
6. Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann. Quoted Bruce Graeme, The Story of Buckingham Palace, Hutchinson & Co., 1928.
7. Duke of Buckingham, Letter to Duke of Shrewsbury, Works, vol. 2,1753.
8. See John Brooke, King George III, Constable, 1972.
9. Sir Joshua Reynolds, source unknown.
10. John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and His Times: the Life of the Sculptor Joseph Nollekens, Turnstile Press, 1949.
11. Quoted Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace.
12. Megan Aldrich (ed.), The Craces, John Murray and Brighton Pavilion, 1990.
13. Quoted Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace, from Whitley, ‘Artists and Their Friends in England 1700–1799’.
14. Quoted Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace.
15. Sophie von la Roche, Sophie in London, transl. Clare Williams, Jonathan Cape, 1933.
16. Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1762. Quoted Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace.
16. The Diaries of Mrs Lybbe Powys, March 23 and 27 1767, ed. E. J. Climenson, Longmans, 1899.
18. E. S. Turner, The Court of St James.
19. Mrs Charlotte Papendiek, Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte, ed. Mrs Kernon Delves Broughton, Richard Bentley & Son, 1887.
20. Sophie von la Roche, Sophie in London.
21. J. T. Smith, Nollekens and His Times, 1949.
22. Mme D’Arblay, Diary and Correspondence of Fanny Burney, ed. G. F. Barrett, 6 vols., 1904.
23. Mrs Charlotte Papendiek, Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte.
24. Mme D’Arblay, Diary and Correspondence of Fanny Burney.
25. London Chronicle, May 1764.
26. Journals of the House of Commons, 11 February 1780.
27. Nathaniel Wraxall, Historical Memoirs, ed. H. Wheatley, vol. ii, 1884.
28. Mrs Charlotte Papendiek, Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte.
29. Mme D’Arblay, Diary and Correspondence of Fanny Burney.
30. Mrs Charlotte Papendiek, Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte.
31. Gentleman’s Magazine, 1802.
32. William H. Pyne, A History of the Royal Residences, vol. 3, L. P., 1819.
33. Quoted Bruce Graeme, The Story of Buckingham Palace, Hutchinson and Co., 1928, from Holt’s Life of George III.
34. Letters of Princess Charlotte 1811–1817, ed. A. Aspinall, Home and van Thal, 1949.
35. Memoirs of Baron Stockmar by his Son, Baron E. von Stockmar, ed. F. Max Müller, 2 vols, Longmans, Green & Co., 1872.
36. Olwen Hedley, Queen Charlotte, John Murray, 1975.
37. Richard Rush, diary of 17 February 1818, Memoranda of a Resident at the Court of London, 1833.
38. Quoted Olwen Hedley, Queen Charlotte, from Mme D’Arblay (Fanny Burney), Diary and Correspondence of Fanny Burney.
39. ibid.
40. Princess Lieven, The Private Letters, John Murray, 1934.
CHAPTER THREE
1. King George IV to John Nash, quoted Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace, Country Life Ltd, 1931.
2. Mrs Arbuthnot, The Journal of Mrs Arbuthnot, 1820–1832, 2 vols. Macmillan & Co., 1950.
3. Quoted John Summerson, The Life and Work of John Nash, Allen & Unwin. 1935
4. The Times, 23 January 1826.
5. Mrs Arbuthnot, The Journal of Mrs Arbuthnot.
6. John Nash to Sir John Soane, 18 September 1822, quoted John Summerson, The Life and Work of John Nash.
7. The Times, May 1825.
8. The Times, June 1825.
9. Quoted John Summerson, The Life and Work of John Nash.
10. The Literary Gazette, 4 September 1826.
11. Fraser’s Magazine, 1830.
12. John Summerson, The Life and Work of John Nash.
13. Professor Richardson, quoted Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace.
14. John Summerson, The Life and Work of John Nash,
15. Quoted in Alison Kelly, Mrs Coade s Stone, Self Publishing Association Limited, 1990.
16. ‘Obituary of Mrs Coade, Inventor of Coade Stone’, Gentleman’s Magazine, 1821.
17. Alison Kelly, Mrs Coade’s Stone.
18. The Times, 10 March 1826.
19. The Times, 5 November 1827.
CHAPTER FOUR
1. Lord Holland, Holland House Diaries, ed. A. D. Kriegal, Routledge & Paul, 1977.
2. Report of House of Commons Select Committee, October 1831.
3. John Summerson, The Life and Work of John Nash, Allen & Unwin, 1935.
4. Lord Holland, Holland House Diaries.
5. Robert Huish, Memoirs of George IV, ed. Kelly, 2 vols., London, 1831.
6. Thomas Creevey, The Creevey Papers, 14 March 1831, ed. Sir Herbert Maxwell, John Murray, 1903.
7. Philip Ziegler, King William IV, Collins, 1971.
8. John Martin Robinson, Royal Palaces: Buckingham Palace, Michael Joseph, 1995.
9. Thomas Creevey, The Creevey Papers.
10. William Hazlitt, quoted Claire Tomalin, Mrs Jordan s Profession, Viking, 1994.
11. Lord Holland, Holland House Diaries.
CHAPTER FIVE
1. Quoted Bruce Graeme, The Story of Buckingham Palace, Hutchinson 8cCo., 1928.
2. Leaves from the Greville Diary, ed. Morrell, Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1929.
3. Memoirs of Baron Stockmar by his Son, Baron E. von Stockmar, ed. F. Max Miiller, 2 vols., Longmans, Green & Co., 1872.
4. Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I., Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964.
5. Princess Lieven, The Private Letters, John Murray, 1934.
6. Lord Holland, Holland House Diaries, ed. A. D. Kriegal, Routledge & Paul, 1977.
7. Lord Holland, Holland House Diaries.
8. Michael Joyce, My Friend H:the Life of John Hobhouse, Lord Br ought on, John Murray, 1948.
9. Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria’s Letters: a Selection from Her Majesty’s Correspondence (see Bibliography).
10. Queen Victoria, 7 May 1839, Journal (see Bibliography).
11. Queen Victoria, 9 May 1839, Journal.
12. Queen Victoria, Letters.
13. Queen Victoria, 29 May 1839, The Girlhood, ed. Viscount Esher, 2 vols., John Murray, 1912.
14. ibid.
15. Baron Stockmar to Prince Albert, quoted Robert Rhodes-James, Albert, Prince Consort, Hamish Hamilton, 1983.
16. Baron Stockmar to Queen Victoria, Memoirs of Baron Stockmar by his Son, Baron E. von Stockmar.
17. ibid.
18. Dowager Duchess of Gotha, quoted Robert Rhodes-James, Albert, Prince Consort.
19. Louise, Duchess of Coburg, Prince Albert’s mother, June 1820, quoted Robert Rhodes-James, Albert, Prince Consort.
20. Quoted Robert Rhodes-James, Albert, Prince Consort.
21. Baron Stockmar to Prince Leopold, quoted ibid.
22. Queen Victoria, 18 May 1836, Journal.
23. Prince Albert to a friend, 1838, quoted Robert Rhodes-James, Albert, Prince Consort.
24. Prince Leopold to Baron Stockmar, quoted Robert Rhodes-James, Albert, Prince Consort.
25. Queen Victoria, 11 October 1839, Journal.
26. Queen Victoria, 15 October 1839, Journal.
27. Prince Albert to Baron Stockmar, 16 October 1839, Letters, ed. K. Jagow, John Murray, 1938.
28. Prince Albert to Baron Stockmar.
29. Queen Victoria, address to Privy Council, 23 November 1839. Quoted Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.L
30. Queen Victoria to Prince Albert, quoted Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I.
31. Prince Albert to Duchess Caroline of Saxe-Gotha-Altenberg, 12 February 1841, Letters.
32. Quoted Bruce Graeme, The Story of Buckingham Palace.
33. Mendelssohn, Felix Bartholdy, to his mother, 9 July 1842, Letters 1833–1847, ed. Jacob, 1863.
34. Queen Victoria, 31 December 1843, Journal. Quoted Christopher Lloyd, The Royal Collection, Sinclair-Stevenson.
35. Queen Victoria, Letters. Quoted Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I.
36. Quoted Sir Oliver Millar, Victorian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
37. ibid.
38. Memoirs of Baron Stockmar by his Son, Baron E. von Stockmar.
39. ibid.
40. ibid.
41. Prince Albert to Stockmar, 18 January 1842, quoted Robert Rhodes-James, Albert, Prince Consort.
42. Memoirs of Baron Stockmar by his Son, Baron E. von Stockmar.
43. ibid.
44. ibid.
45. ibid.
46. ibid.
47. ibid.
48. John Pudney, The Smallest Room, Alan Sutton, 1984.
49. ibid.
50. Memoirs of Baron Stockmar by his Son, Baron E. von Stockmar.
51. Boswell, James, Boswell’s Journal 1762–1763, ed. F. A. Pottle, Heinemann, 1950.
52. Prince Albert to his father, May 1842, Letters.
53. The Times, December 1840.
54. The Times, 17 March 1841.
55. The Times, 23 March 1841.
56. Charles Dickens, The Letters, ed. Storey, Pilletson and Easson, vol. 3, Oxford University Press, 1993.
57. Quoted Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I.
58. Memoirs of Baron Stockmar by his son, Baron E. von Stockmar.
59. The Times, 24 June 1842.
60. E. S. Turner, The Court of St James, Michael Joseph, 1959.
61. ibid.
62. The Times, April 1841.
63. Queen Victoria to Sir Robert Peel, 10 February 1845, Letters.
64. Annual Register, June 1845.
65. Anonymous, quoted Bruce Graeme, The Story of Buckingham Palace.
66. The Times, 13 August 1846, including a letter from the architect, Blore, confirming the need for Palace improvements.
67. Letter from ‘Sphinx’, The Times, 24 August 1846.
68. Clifford Smith, Buckingham Palace.
69. The Builder, August 1846.
70. Queen Victoria, 10 June 1849, Journal.
71. Quoted Hermione Hobhouse, Thomas Cubitt, Macmillan, 1971.
72. ibid.
73. Robert Rhodes-James, Albert, Prince Consort.
74. Quoted ibid.
75. Queen Victoria, 28 February 1854, Journal.
76. Queen Victoria to King Leopold, 27 February 1855, Letters.
77. Frieda Arnold, My Mistress the Queen, Transl. Sheila de Bellaigue, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994.
78. G. Tyack, Sir James Pennethorne and the Making of Victorian London, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
79. Thomas Cubitt, quoted Hermione Hobhouse, Thomas Cubitt.
80. ibid.
81. Quoted Clifford Smith, The Story of Buckingham Palace, from The Builder, May 1856.
82. Queen Victoria, 8 May 1856, Journal.
83. Queen Victoria to Lord Clarendon, 25 October 1857, Letters.
84. Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I.
85. Punch, quoted Bruce Graeme, The Story of Buckingham Palace.
86. Memoirs of Baron Stockmar by his Son, Baron E. von Stockmar.
87. Prince Albert to Bertie. His last letter to his son. Quoted Robert Rhodes-James, Albert Prince Consort.
88. Queen Victoria, 1874, Journal, quoted Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I.
89. Queen Victoria to King Leopold, 20 December 1861, Letters.
90. Queen Victoria to King Leopold, 26 December 1861, Letters.
91. Memoirs of Baron Stockmar by his Son, Baron E. von Stockmar.
92. Queen Victoria, 3 February 1865, Journal.
93. Queen Victoria to Princess Alice, 26 July 1874, quoted Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I.
94. Queen Victoria to her daughter Vicky, February 1868, Kronberg Letters, quoted Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I.
95. Memoirs of Baron Stockmar by his Son, Baron E. von Stockmar.
96. Quoted E. S. Turner, The Court of St James, from Manners & Rules of Good Society.
97. ibid.
98. John Bright, quoted E. S. Turner, The Court of St James.
99. Queen Victoria, 20 June 1887, Journal.
100. Lady Monkswell, A Victorian Diarist, John Murray, 1994.
101. ibid.
102. Dorothy Laird, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, Hodder & Stoughton, 1966.
103. Quoted James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, Allen & Unwin, 1959.
104. ibid.
105. ibid.
106. Prince George, Duke of York to Princess Mary, Duchess of York, quoted James Pope-Hennessey, Queen Mary.
107. Queen Victoria, 22 June 1897, Journal.
108. Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I.
CHAPTER SIX
1. Lord Esher, Journals and Letters, Nicholson and Watson, 2 vols., 1934.
2. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, Allen & Unwin, 1959.
3. The Times, obituary of Edward VII, May 1910.
4. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, Cassell, 1951.
5. Sir Philip Magnus, King Edward VII, John Murray, 1903.
6. Lord Esher, Journals and Letters.
7. ibid.
8. Sir Lionel Cust, King Edward VII and His Court, John Murray, 1930.
9. ibid.
10. ibid
11. ibid.
12. ibid.
13. ibid.
14. Sir Philip Magnus, King Edward VII.
15. ibid.
16. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
17. Quoted ibid.
18. John Martin Robinson, Buckingham Palace, Michael Joseph, 1995.
19. Quoted Sir Philip Magnus, King Edward VII.
20. Sir Lionel Cust,King Edward VII and his Court.
21. Sir Philip Magnus, King Edward VII.
22. Sir Lionel Cust, King Edward VII and His Court.
23. ibid.
CHAPTER SEVEN
1. J. R. Clynes, Memoirs, 1924–1937, Hutchinson, 1937.
2. Quoted James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, Allen &Unwin, 1959.
3. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold, ed. Jennifer Ellis, Hutchinson, 1962.
4. ibid.
5. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, Cassell, 1951.
6. ibid.
7. ibid.
8. ibid.
9. ibid.
10. ibid.
11. ibid.
12. Queen Mary to King George V, quoted James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
13. Kenneth Rose, King George V, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983.
14. Queen Mary to the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (her aunt), 26 February 1911, quoted James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
15. Queen Mary, quoted James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
16. Kenneth Rose, King George V.
17. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
18. Kenneth Rose, King George V.
19. ibid.
20. The Times, October 1913.
21. The Times, 1 November 1913.
22. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
23. Quoted James Pope-Hennessy, from Queen Mary, 4 June 1914, Diary.
24. Kenneth Rose, King George V.
25. Royal Archives, George V CC 62/94. Report by Charles Allom of the firm White Allom, describing in detail the work done at Buckingham Palace ‘under the personal supervision of Queen Mary’.
26. Royal Archives, George V CC 62/94.
27. Royal Archives, Queen Mary to the Marquess of Cambridge, February 1925. Quoted James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
28. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
29. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
30. Quoted Kenneth Rose, King George V, King George V, 4 August 1914, Diary.
31. Kenneth Rose, King George V.
32. The Times, 8 September 1914.
33. Charles Allom Report, Royal Archives, George V CC 62/94.
34. John Martin Robinson, Buckingham Palace, Royal Palaces, Michael Joseph, 1995
35. Royal Archives, George V CC 62/94.
36. Mabell, Countess of Airlie Thatched with Gold
37. ibid.
38. King George V to Queen Mary, Royal Archives, George V CC 4 163.
39. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
40. ibid.
41. Mary Agnes Hamilton, Mary MacArthur.
42. ibid.
43. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
44. ibid.
45. Queen Mary to Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 24 March 1916, quoted James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
46. Quoted James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, Queen Mary, December 1916, Diary.
47. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
48. ibid.
49. ibid.
50. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
51. ibid.
52. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
53. ibid.
54. Lord Esher, Journals and Letters, Nicholson and Watson, 2 vols., 1934.
55. Harold Nicolson, King George V:His Life and Reign, Constable, 1952.
56. ibid.
57. Sir Henry Channon, Diaries, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
58. Dorothy Laird, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, Hodder & Stoughton, 1966.
59. ibid.
60. ibid.
61. Kenneth Rose, King George V.
62. J. R. Clynes, Memoirs.
63. Kenneth Rose, King George V.
64. ibid.
65. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold, quoting Lord Salisbury, House of Lords, Hansard, May 1926.
66. ibid.
67. Kenneth Rose, King George V.
68. ibid.
69. ibid.
70. ibid.
71. Harold Nicolson, King George V:His Life and Reign.
72. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
73. E. S. Turner, The Court of St James, Michael Joseph, 1959.
74. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
75. ibid.
76. ibid
77. ibid.
78. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
79. Kenneth Rose, King George V.
80. ibid.
81. ibid.
82. Sir Henry Channon, Diaries.
83. Harold Nicolson, King George V:His Life and Reign.
84. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
85. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
86. ibid.
87. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, Michael Joseph, 1956.
88. ibid.
89. Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward, Letters 1931-1937: the Intimate Correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986.
90. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons.
91. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
92. Kenneth Rose, King George V.
93. ibid.
94. J. R. Clynes,… Memoirs 1924-1937.
95. Quoted James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, from Queen Mary, Diary.
96. ibid.
97. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
98. ibid.
CHAPTER EIGHT
1. Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward, Letters 1931–1937: The Intimate Correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986.
2. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, Cassell, 1951.
3. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, Allen & Unwin, 1959.
4. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
5. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold, ed. Jennifer Ellis, Hutchinson, 1962.
6. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
7. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
8. ibid.
9. Quoted James Pope-Hennessy, from Queen Mary, Diary.
10. ibid.
11. ibid.
12. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
13. ibid.
14. ibid.
15. ibid.
16. Sir Henry Channon, Diaries, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
17. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
18. ibid.
19. Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward, Letters 1931-1937.
20. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
21. ibid.
22. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
23. ibid.
24. Philip Ziegler, Diana Cooper, Hamish Hamilton, 1981.
25. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
26. ibid.
27. Sir Henry Channon, Diaries.
28. ibid.
29. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
30. Sir John Whebler-Bennett, King George VI: His Life and Reign, Macmillan, 1958.
31. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
32. ibid.
33. ibid.
34. Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974.
35. Quoted Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII.
36. ibid.
37. Sir Henry Channon, Diaries.
38. ibid.
39. Baldwin’s statement in the House of Commons, Hansard, 16 December 1936.
40. Sir Henry Channon, Diaries.
CHAPTER NINE
1. King George VI to Lady Airlie, in Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold, ed. Jennifer Ellis, Hutchinson, 1962.
2. Dorothy Laird, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, Hodder &c Stoughton, 1966.
3. Sarah Bradford, King George V I, Heinemann, 1989.
4. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, private conversation.
5. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, Cassell, 1951.
6. HRH Duke of Windsor, BBC broadcast from Windsor, 12 December 1936.
7. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George V I: His Life and Reign, Macmillan, 1958.
8. Quoted Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George V I, from King George V I, Diary.
9. HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story.
10. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
11. ibid.
12. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
13. HRH Princess Margaret, private conversation.
14. Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses, Cassell, 1950.
15. The Times, 12 October 1938.
16. Royal Archives, G. VI., PS3317.
17. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
18. ibid.
19. Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses.
20. ibid.
21. ibid.
22. Kenneth Campbell, Campbell Smith & Co., A Century of Decorative Crafts-manship 1873–1973, published 1973; printed Land Humphries.
23. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
24. Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses.
25. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
26. Quoted James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, Allen & Unwin, 1959, from Queen Mary, 12 May 1937, Diary.
27. HRH Princess Elizabeth, 12 May 1937, ‘The Coronation’, Royal Library, Windsor.
28. Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses.
29. HRH Princess Elizabeth, 12 May 1937, ‘The Coronation’.
30. Sir Henry Channon, Diaries, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
31. ibid.
32. Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974.
33. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, Harper & Row, New York, 1938.
34. HM King George V I, BBC broadcast, 3 September 1939.
35. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George V I.
36. HM King George VI, BBC broadcast, 25 December 1939.
37. Sir John Colville, The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955, Hodder & Stoughton, 1985.
38. Dorothy Laird, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.
39. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
40. ibid.
41. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, private conversation.
42. Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 20 August, 1940.
43. King George VI to Queen Mary, 11 September 1940, Royal Archives, Geo V CC 12
44. Royal Archives, G.VI. P.S. 4920/1.
45. King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 September 1940, Royal Archives, George V, CC 12/136.
46. Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 September 1940, Royal Archives, George V, CC 12/135.
47. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
48. HRH Princess Margaret, private conversation.
49. Dorothy Laird, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.
50. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
51. Dorothy Laird, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.
52. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
53. Royal Archives, Geo V. CC 62/123.
54. Chief Superintendent Metropolitan Police, Douglas Lightwood; article in London Police Pensioner, December 1994, p. 24. Details of this raid are also contained in an unpublished article by PC Alan Graham, later to be a member of the Royal Protection Unit, based at Clarence House.
55. Quoted Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
56. HRH Princess Elizabeth, BBC broadcast, 13 October 1940.
57. Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1942, Royal Archives, George V CC 13/26.
58. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember.
59. ibid.
60. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, On My Own, Harper & Row, New York, 1958.
61. Royal Archives, GV CC 13/64.
62. Royal Archives, 25 September 1943, GV CC 13/64.
63. Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses.
64. ibid.
65. HRH Princess Margaret, private conversation.
66. Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 25 September 1943, Royal Archives, G V CC 13/64.
67. Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses.
68. Quoted Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
69. ibid.
70. Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses.
71. ibid.
72. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
73. Mr Clement Attlee, conversation with author.
74. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
75. ibid.
76. ibid.
77. Royal Archives pp G.VI 7009.
78. ibid.
79. ibid.
80. Royal Archives, pp G.VI 7009 1947.
81. ibid.
82. Hansard, Report of Proceedings of the House of Commons, 31 March 1947, p. 261.
83. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
84. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
85. HRH Princess Elizabeth, broadcast from South Africa, 21 April 1947.
86. Quoted Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, from Queen Mary’s Collection, Royal Archives.
87. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
88. ibid.
89. King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 September 1947, quoted Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
90. Aneurin Bevan, quoted Kenneth Rose, King George V, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983.
91. Sir John Colville, The Fringes of Power.
92. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
93. ibid.
94. Sir John Colville, The Fringes of Power.
95. ibid.
96. ibid.
97. ibid.
98. Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses.
99. Sir John Colville, The Fringes of Power.
100. Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses.
101. ibid.
102. ibid.
103. King George V I to Princess Elizabeth on her honeymoon, quoted Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George V I.
104. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
105. ibid.
106. Quoted Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George V lixom King George V I’s address to the Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, Buckingham Palace, 27 April 1949, Memorandum by Sir Alan Lascelles.
107. ibid.
108. HRH Princess Margaret, private conversation.
109. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
110. King George VI to a friend, quoted Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
111. Winston Churchill, source unknown.
112. HRH Princess Margaret, private conversation.
113. Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Queen Elizabeth II, Harper Collins, 1996.
114. ibid.
115. Lord Charteris, private conversation.
116. ibid.
117. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
118. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons, Hansard, 11 February 1952.
119. Clement Attlee, Labour Leader of the Opposition, Hansard, 11 February 1952.
120. ibid.
CHAPTER TEN
1. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold, ed. Jennifer Ellis, Hutchinson, 1962.
2. Quoted Sarah Bradford, Elizabeth: A Biography of HM The Queen, Heinemann, 1966.
3. Hansard, 25 March 1953.
4. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, On My Own, Harper & Row, New York, 1958.
5. Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Queen Elizabeth II, HarperCollins, 1996.
6. Lord Cobbold, statement to the All Party Select Committee, Hansard, 21 June 1971.
7. Private conversation.
8. Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I., Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964.
9. Professor Harold Laski, The Fortnightly, December 1942.
10. ibid.
11. ibid.
12. Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II.
13. Author reminiscence.
14. Quoted Sarah Bradford, Elizabeth: A Biography of HM The Queen.
15. Author reminiscence.
16. Lady Solti to Edna Healey, private letter.
17. ibid.
18. Quoted Sarah Bradford, Elizabeth: A Biography of HM the Queen.
19. Quoted Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II.
20. ibid.
21. Hansard, Minutes of the All-Party Select Committee of Enquiry into Royal Finances, 21 June 1971.
22. ibid.
23. ibid.
24. ibid.
25. ibid.
26. ibid.
27. ibid.
28. Hansard, 12 February 1975.
29. ibid.
30. Report of the Royal Trustees, July 1990.
31. Memorandum of Understanding, 1 April 1991.
32. ibid.
33. Lord Airlie to Press Conference, quoted Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II.
34. Michael Peat, television interview, quoted Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II.
35. Press conference 1994, Lord Airlie’s address.
36. Royal Finances, second edition, 1995.
37. Edna Healey, Coutts & Co., Portrait of a Private Bank, Hodder&Stoughton, 1993.
38. Official Report, the Lord Chamberlain.
39. Interview with Lord Airlie, the Lord Chamberlain.
40. Sir Oliver Millar, ‘Surveyors Past and Present’, The Queen’s Pictures: The Royal Collection through the Ages, ed. Christopher Lloyd, National Gallery Publications, 1991.
41. ibid.
42. ibid.
43. ibid.
44. ibid.
45. Elspeth Montcrieff, ‘Utility and Delight’, Apollo, October 1991.
46. James Shirley, Death the Leveller, 1659.
47. Elspeth Montcrieff, Apollo, October 1991.
48. Quoted Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II, from The Sunday Times, 29 May 1977.