to dance with him: Hugo Vickers, The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (London: Michael Joseph, 1995), 133.
innate decency of mankind: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story: The Memoirs of H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor (London: Cassell, 1951), 131.
Senators’ daughters than by talking to Senators: Frank Prochaska, “Edward VIII: A Prince in the Promised Land,” History Today 58, no. 12 (2008).
tremendous curtain call: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, 151.
pleasing point about him: Frank Prochaska, “Edward VIII,” History Today.
They murdered him with kindness: J. Bryan III and John Murphy, The Windsor Story (London: Granada, 1979), 46.
things they most believe: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII (New York: Knopf, 1991).
their press-made national hero: Ibid., 143.
boring people and conventions: Ibid., 163.
long and long to die: Ibid., 107.
lonely person, lonely and sad: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 47.
never wanted to become King: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 17.
miserableness I had to keep to myself: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, xvi.
like any other boy of my age: John Parker, King of Fools (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), 15.
a lost lamb: Neil Balfour and Sally Mackay, Paul of Yugoslavia: Britain’s Maligned Friend (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980), 28.
what does it matter if I am killed?: Hugo Vickers, The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (London: Harrods Publishing, 1995), 68.
impressed me most enormously: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, 117–18.
drowned in shell holes: Ibid., 128.
he could keep him out of it: R. G. Casey to Stanley Bruce, February 23, 1928, www.dfat.gov.au/publications/historical/volume-18/historical-document-18-105.html.
go to church on Sunday mornings: Frank Prochaska, “Edward VIII,” History Today; also papers of Sir Esme Howard, Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle, Cumbria.
you are a cad: John Parker, King of Fools, 23.
I have often thought the same: Duff Hart-Davis, ed., King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War; The Diaries of “Tommy” Lascelles (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006), 104.
wrong sort of person to be Prince of Wales: Ibid., 105.
Very nice but terribly young: Alan Palmer, Crowned Cousins: The Anglo-German Royal Connection (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985), 201.
far from being a pacifist: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 38.
it would have been brought off: Ibid., 39.
’cos it’ll destroy me: Ibid., 151.
fundamentally afraid of women: Christopher Wilson, “The Night that Edward Confronted Wallis over Her Gay Lover,” Mail on Sunday, September 20, 2014.
never out of a woman’s legs: Hugo Vickers, Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor (London: Hutchinson, 2011), 276.
every mother’s heart beats high: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 83.
bad blood: “The Earl of Dudley” (obituary), Daily Telegraph, November 26, 2013.
the prince might have been his father: Ibid.
his love is so obvious and undisguisable: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 89.
to what the world is saying: John Parker, King of Fools, 24.
just DIPPY to die with YOU: Anne Sebba, That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2012), 78.
no party was complete without us: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography (London: Macmillan, 2009), 114.
maintenance of the Empire: R. G. Casey to Stanley Bruce, February 16, 1928, http://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/historical/volume-18/historical-document-18-100.html.
we were not prepared to put pressure on our daughter: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 162.
doubtful whether World War II could have occurred: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, The Secret Life (New York: John Wiley, 2004), 77.
heedless of where the voyage would end: John Parker, King of Fools, 47–48.
I can see nothing but disaster ahead: Hugo Vickers, The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 109.
more original from the Prince of Wales: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, 257.
most attractive personalities I have ever met: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 67.
career than Edward VIII had: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 20.
stole my husband while I was ill: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 44.
wardrobes in Paris for the visit: George S. Messersmith papers, MSS 109 2017-00, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE.
I thought you said we all looked ghastly: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 88.
her conversation deft and amusing: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, 257.
I was unaware of his interest: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 94.
too much of a bad thing: William Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (London: Macmillan, 2012), 198–99.
looked after him exceedingly well: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 198.
No letter, no nothing. Just silence: Paul Vallely, “Royal Albums: The King’s Favourite: Mrs Simpson; Moves to the Heart of Edward’s Life,” Independent, February 14, 1998.
religious, almost holy: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 59.
good sense of fashion. Nothing more: Hugo Vickers, Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979), 220.
decrease as one sees them more often: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 100.
Business foul: Michael Bloch, ed., Wallis and Edward: Letters, 1931–1937 (New York: Summit Books, 1986), 59.
I can see no happy outcome to such a situation: Ibid., 126.
boundary between friendship and love: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 101.
the day the clocks stopped: Ibid., 97.
charming, cultivated woman: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 202.
hypnotized by the American adventuress: Ibid., 205.
intimate relations take place: Anne Sebba, That Woman, cited June 25, 1935, marked “Secret,” MEPO 10/35 NA PRO.
getting all they could out of HRH: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 207.
blackmail upon an extravagant basis: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 126.
the only woman who can exercise any influence on him: Jim Wilson, Nazi Princess: Hitler, Lord Rothermere and Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe (Stroud, Gloucs.: History Press, 2011), 34.
a huge portrait of Hitler: Ibid., 97.
I don’t want to be mixed up with Asiatics: David Cannadine, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990), 354.
Mrs Simpson and gave parties for her: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 121.
she speaks favourably of the present regime in Germany: Jim Wilson, Nazi Princess, 96.
Charlie Chaplin’s moustache: Christopher Sykes, Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), 377.
why does Herr Hitler dislike the Jews?: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 105.
Herr Ribbentrop through Mrs Simpson: Jim Wilson, Nazi Princess, 97.
Gratify the duke’s sexual desires: Rob Evans and David Hencke, “Wallis Simpson, the Nazi Minister, the Telltale Monk and an FBI Plot,” Guardian, June 29, 2002, http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jun/29/research.monarchy.
often tragically misleading: Martha Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess: The Extraordinary Life of Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe (Stroud, Gloucs.: Sutton, 2004), 51.
echoes with work and song: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, 103.
the winning side, and that will be German, not the French: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 179.
victors of the contest will be the Soviets: Edward VIII to Herman Rogers, from the estate of Lucy Livingston Rogers.
the savour of high diplomacy: HRH the Duke of Windsor, The Crown and the People 1902–1953 (London: Cassell, 1953), 41.
Dictator of the Empire: Jim Wilson, Nazi Princess, 96.
difficult enough task for an English King: Ibid.
we might want one in England before long: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 64.
Ferdinand would no doubt have agreed: Ibid., 65.
the German people grasp most eagerly the hand: Ibid., 100.
peace-loving conciliatory Britain: Dr. Paul Schwarz, This Man Ribbentrop: His Life and Times (New York: Julian Messner, 1943), 134.
that’s a good sport: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 182.
where foreign affairs are concerned: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, 254.
the German protagonist: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 181.
British foreign policy seemed paralyzed: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, 254.
goose stepping around the living room: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 112.
wave a red flag myself: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 364.
at loggerheads with his eldest son: Alan Palmer, Crowned Cousins, 217.
the Führer was insane: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 173.
no differences to my feelings for you: Ibid., 199.
My sympathies for your people: Martha Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, Appendix III.
to discuss drawing closer to the English royal house: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 160.
His wife is equally anti-French: Ibid., 201.
fascination of London society for aristocratic Fascism: John Costello, Mask of Treachery: The Dossier on Blunt, Buckingham Palace, MI5 and Soviet Subversion (London: Pan Books, 1989), 283.
family relations in Germany have been used to spy: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 190–91.
much joy and relaxation: Ben Urwand, “Hitlerwood: Yes, Hitler was Obsessed by Movies—But Did He Really Persuade Hollywood to Collaborate with the Nazis?” Daily Mail, November 16, 2013.
American’s figure was “not bad”: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 229.
encourage pro-German feeling: Author interview.
might well help to bring about an understanding: Greg King, The Duchess of Windsor: The Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson (New York: Citadel, 2003), 147.
I myself wish to talk to Hitler: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 231.
good relations established between Germany and Britain: Ibid., 231.
personal influence did much to retard British policy: George S. Messersmith papers, MSS 109 0809-00.
in the pocket of Ribbentrop: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 366.
undesirable reflection upon their king: Paul Schwarz, This Man Ribbentrop, 132.
any question of marriage: Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin: A Biography (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969).
Ribbentrop used Mrs. Simpson: N. A. Rose, ed., Baffy: The Diaries of Blanche Dugdale 1936–1947 (Edgware, Middlesex: Vallentine Mitchell, 1973), 34.
German pay. I think this is unlikely: William E. Ellis, Robert Worth Bingham and the Southern Mystique: From the Old South to the New South and Beyond (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997), 183.
in no circumstances to be allowed to develop: Greg King, The Duchess of Windsor, 149.
He is keeping his promise: Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970).
I must inform Berlin immediately: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 234.
natural and unaffected good manners: Diana Mitford, The Duchess of Windsor: A Memoir (London: Gibson Square, 2011), 77.
less spectacular role by Edward VIII: Author interview.
a nice way to start my reign: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 120.
a new trick pulled out of the hat: Ronald Tree to Nancy Tree, April 1, 1936, Langhorne Papers, MSS 1 L2653 B281-362.
under orders to let the Germans win: Christopher Sykes, Nancy, 241.
regimentation of opinion: Jacques Poitras, Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy (Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane, 2007), 41.
Lord Rothermere… “a traitor”: John Vincent, ed., The Crawford Papers: The Journals of David Lindsay, the Twenty-Seventh Earl of Crawford and Tenth Earl of Balcarres, 1871–1940, during the Years 1892 to 1940 (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1984), 557.
It has never entered our head: N. J. Crowson, ed., Fleet Street, Press Barons and Politics: The Journals of Collin Brooks, 1932–1940 (London: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 113.
Adolf the Great: Jim Wilson, Nazi Princess, 85.
George Washington of Germany: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 202.
War with Britain at any time: Martha Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, 52.
hated Wallis for it: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 120.
glorious flowers: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 126.
archives that might shed more light on them remain closed: Chris Hastings and Stephanie Plentl, “Mrs Simpson Not Worthy of Blue Plaque,” Daily Telegraph, June 7, 2008.
his hat, which was discovered by the maid: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 136.
Are you sincere? Do you intend to marry her?: Ibid., 136.
she hadn’t any intention of divorcing Simpson: Greg King, The Duchess of Windsor, 153.
access to all Secret and Cabinet papers: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 125.
infatuations usually wear off: Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold: The Memoirs of Mabell, Countess of Airlie (London: Hutchinson, 1962), 198.
supplanted by some younger rival: John Vincent, ed., The Crawford Papers, diary entry, February 2, 1936.
robustly maintained for nearly twenty years: Duff Hart-Davis, ed., King’s Counsellor, 113.
my prime minister must meet my future wife: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 130.
charm or a kind of beauty: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Flower and the Nettle: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), 51, 62–63.
Very convenient: “The Earl of Dudley” (obituary), Daily Telegraph, November 26, 2013.
the flatterers, the sycophants, and the malice: Michael Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996), 82.
no wish of hers: Sarah Bradford, King George VI (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989), 176.
Aird… “despised” him as a king: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 247.
I honestly don’t think you can me: Michael Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor, 88.
I came to dine with the king: Sarah Bradford, King George VI, 172.
immediately to expunge his memory: Nigel Nicolson, ed., Leave the Letters Till We’re Dead: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, 1936–41 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1980), 10–11.
hurt your popularity in the country: Michael Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor, 89.
silence all this weird conspiracy: Ian Kershaw, Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain’s Road to War (London: Penguin, 2005), 188.
I doubt if he will ever regret it: Herman Rogers to Endicott Peabody, October 23, 1937, from the estate of Lucy Livingston Rogers.
damaging scandal would erupt: Sara Delano Roosevelt to Herman Rogers, from the estate of Lucy Livingston Rogers.
tragedy for him and catastrophe for me: Michael Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor, 99.
horrible position for us naturally: William Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 225.
battle against the plotters: Christopher Andrew, Defend The Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2009), 199.
recipient of endless pin pricks: Diana Mitford, The Duchess of Windsor, 107.
ambassador of that foreign government: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 210; Martha Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, 65.
then terrible things began to happen: John Colville, Footprints in Time: Memories (Norwich, Norfolk: Michael Russell, 1984), 203.
every possible rumour, however absurd: John Vincent, ed., The Crawford Papers, 573.
signed two abdications and torn them up: Miranda Seymour, Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993), 365.
Did you hear what he has said?: Hugo Vickers, The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 36.
The drawbridges were going up behind me: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, 413.
dangerous adventuress: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 203.
she believed had hypnotized him: Hugo Vickers, The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 160.
painting Wallis’s toenails: Paul Vallely, “Royal Albums: The King’s Favourite,” Independent, February 14, 1988.
arch adventuress of the worst type: Adrian Fort, Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor (London: Jonathan Cape, 2012), 248.
ambitious, scheming and dangerous: Stephen Bates and Owen Bowcott, “Papers Bring Deeper Insight, but No Change,” Guardian, January 30, 2003.
a respectable whore: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 215.
I am here today: George S. Messersmith papers, MSS 109 2017-00.
Mrs. Simpson “intended to flit”: Owen Bowcott and Stephen Bates, “Fear that Windsors Would ‘Flit’ to Germany,” Guardian, January 30, 2003.
I must remain hidden: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor: The Private Papers 1937–1972 (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), 18.
Make no mistake he can’t live without her: Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold, 201.
in defence of Mrs. S.: Herman Rogers to Sara Delano Roosevelt, from the estate of Lucy Livingston Rogers.
could not possibly get away with it: Adrian Fort, Nancy, 248.
must make even Judas queasy: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 393.
Absolutely brilliant: Ibid.
study of her and her friends: William Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 285–86.
the battle could have been won: Colin Cross, The Fascists in Britain (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1963), 165.
wanted Edward to stay on the throne: Martha Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, 64.
Especially if one is king: Ibid., 63.
details orally to my Führer: Christopher Andrew, Defend The Realm, 199.
in the face of this nonsense: Ibid., 199.
tenuous connection with his official post: Gerhard L. Weinberg, Hitler and England, 1933–1945: Pretense and Reality, German Studies Review 8, no. 2 (May 1985): 299–309.
important details miscarried: Ian Kershaw, Making Friends with Hitler, 190.
unalloyed gain for Britain: Ibid., 189.
most prescient statesman then living: Patrick J. Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War (New York: Crown, 2008), 357.
forbade Prince Lu to attend: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 160.
lovely to look forward to: Letter from Duke of Windsor to Herman Rogers, December 22, 1936, from the estate of Lucy Livingston Rogers.
a monarch’s service: “Sir Dudley Forwood, Bt” (obituary), Daily Telegraph, January 27, 2001.
They were always made for me: George S. Messersmith papers, MSS 109 2017-00.
a constant anxiety to me: H. Montgomery Hyde, Walter Monckton (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991), 93.
kings don’t take tricks, they only abdicate: Alan Truscott, “Bridge; No Tricks for a King,” New York Times, July 18, 1982.
impediment in his speech: H. Montgomery Hyde, Walter Monckton, 80.
hanging about doing nothing: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 388.
arts and graces that please: H. Montgomery Hyde, Walter Monckton, 94.
definite ideas as to dictatorship: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 180.
right to return to it—for all time: Stephen Bates, “Edward Forced to Stay in Exile or Risk Income,” Guardian, January 30, 2003.
without my approval: Paul Reynolds, “Royals Kept Windsors in Exile,” BBC News, January 30, 2003.
an extremely difficult situation: President Roosevelt to Edmund Rogers, from the estate of Lucy Livingston Rogers.
proper backing would mean so much: Michael Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor, 111.
the wife—who hates us both: Ibid.
one of the most dangerous of Nazi spies: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 102.
“So degrading,” noted the queen: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 424.
many German business contacts: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 211.
those who still believe in this ideal: Kingston Daily Freeman (Kingston, NY), October 27, 1937.
we could meet it side by side: Michael Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor, 117.
the ‘other one’ wouldn’t have done: Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1979), 274.
a fine wedding present: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 311.
automatically on marriage: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 422.
your own future happiness: National Archives, file NA PRO HO 144/22945. Released January 2003.
alienating us from my family: H. Montgomery Hyde, Walter Monckton, 83.
none of the family is going to the wedding: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 422.
nail in the coffin of monarchy: Ibid., 421.
he was deeply, deeply hurt: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 206.
no interest at all in politics: Helena Normanton, “Intrigue Is Denied by Mrs. Warfield,” New York Times, June 1, 1937.
I think I can make him happy: H. Montgomery Hyde, Walter Monckton, 86.
I did step into the breach: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 423.
increasingly suspicious of the duke’s behavior: Conversation with Edward after his abdication, George S. Messersmith papers, MSS 109 2017-00.
dominated by his fine, dark eyes: Janet Flanner, “Annals of Collaboration,” New Yorker, September 22, 1945.
make the arrangements with Hitler: “Sir Dudley Forwood, Bt” (obituary), Daily Telegraph, January 27, 2001.
value to any universal—not political—world cause: Herman Rogers to Dr, Peabody, October 23, 1937, from the estate of Lucy Livingston Rogers.
more than anything else is peace: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 109.
a “more sinister” figure: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 212.
the Windsors, Bedaux, Solbert, and Watson reveals this thinking: Author interview.
bombshell and a bad one: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 425.
private stunts for publicity purposes: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 115.
a bite of luncheon: Ibid.
bombshell after bombshell: Ibid., 116.
respect felt for an equal: Gerwin Strobl, The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions of Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 109.
so-called guests of the Third Reich: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 209.
where they store the cold meat: “Sir Dudley Forwood, Bt” (obituary), Daily Telegraph, January 27, 2001.
trophies at an exhibition: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 362.
quarrelsome, a four flusher: Ibid.
What a shame! What a terrible shame: Gerwin Strobl, The Germanic Isle, 109.
could have saved Europe from her doom: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 225.
I did salute Hitler: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 364.
He was frank and friendly with Hitler, and displayed the social charm: R. H. C. Steed, ed., Hitler’s Interpreter (London: Heinemann, 1951), 75.
peculiar fire: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 362.
Nazi salute that the Duke returned: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 209.
would have made a good queen: Ibid.
she was most ladylike: Martha Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, 67.
a devoted admirer, on the British throne: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 206.
distinction and success: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 339.
strong pro-Fascist sympathies: Ibid., 209–210.
royalty’s warm feelings for the Nazis: William Stevenson, Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II (New York: Arcade, 2007), 57.
the Weimar Republic, which had been extremely socialist: “Sir Dudley Forwood, Bt” (obituary), Daily Telegraph, January 27, 2001.
popular appeal which the Duke of Windsor possesses: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 235.
semi-fascist comeback in England: Ibid., 221–22.
movement could be found than in the Duke of Windsor: Sarah Bradford, King George VI, 255.
recalled to the throne as a dictator: Sol Bloomenkranz, Charles Bedaux: Deciphering an Enigma (Bloomington, IN; iUniverse, 2012), 50–53.
“delayed” so… they would miss the sombre ceremony: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 238.
diplomatic complications: Cornelius Vanderbilt to Herman Rogers, June 18, 1937, from the estate of Lucy Livingston Rogers.
the problems of labour or the poor and needy: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 237.
regime’s hold on the working classes: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 117.
quit public life: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 269.
a sharp and salutary lesson: John Vincent, ed., The Crawford Papers, 585.
lovely innocent trip: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 119.
accept the presidency of the English Republic: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 342.
like a small boy at Christmas: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 378–79.
delivered from the fears that beset us: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 137.
to choose such a moment: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 453.
discreet political missions: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 192.
betterment of Anglo-German relations: Ibid., 201.
private domain of royal cousins: Tom MacDonnell, Daylight upon Magic: The Royal Tour of Canada, 1939 (Toronto, ON: Macmillan of Canada, 1989), 43.
not the purview of the royals: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 193–94.
if war came: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 345.
Complete strangers embraced in the streets: Gerwin Strobl, The Germanic Isle, 130.
YOU talk of your PRIDE: Anne Sebba, That Woman, 227.
He might not even exist: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 144.
Admit that man has charm: Diana Mitford, The Duchess of Windsor, 155.
they HATE her: William Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 279–80.
she should not be here in wartime: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 494.
babble out state secrets without realizing: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 300.
victors of the contest will be the Soviet: Duke of Windsor to Herman Rogers, October 16, 1939, from the estate of Lucy Livingston Rogers.
visiting the French front: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 147.
Go ahead sir, I will back you: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 357.
source of any intelligence: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 212.
He knows too much: John Costello, Mask of Treachery, 413–14; Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 418.
peace with the Nazis on any terms they could: Author interview with Gerhard Weinberg.
favourable circumstances might acquire a certain significance: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 308.
source of military intelligence: John Costello, Mask of Treachery, 415; Sarah Bradford, King George VI, 434–35.
Did the duke know what this person was doing?: Author interview with Gerhard Weinberg.
information made its way into German hands: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 302–6.
a whole nation against one lone woman: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 418.
betrayed military secrets to Hitler: Ben Fenton, “Lies and Secrets,” Financial Times, May 3, 2008.
marry her and maintain the throne: FOIA, FBI file of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Edward Tamm to J. Edgar Hoover, September 13, 1940.
not just to his fellow countrymen: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 375.
wasn’t completely out of character: Neill Lochery, Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light 1939–1945 (New York: Public Affairs, 2011), 61.
arriving in Barcelona on June 20: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi: The Nazi Plot to Kidnap the Duke of Windsor, July 1940 (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984), 23.
please confirm that I am acting correctly: Ibid., 48.
establishing contact with him: German Foreign Ministry (Auswärtiges Amt) document AA-B15/B002531, Stohrer to Ribbentrop, June 23, 1940, Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918–1945, Series D, 1937–1945 (London: H.M.S.O., 1949–; Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1949–), cited in Michael Bloch, Operation Willi.
suggestion came from Germany: German Foreign Ministry document AA-B15/B002532, Ribbentrop to Stohrer, June 24, 1940, Documents on German Foreign Policy.
appealed directly for peace: Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson), 385–86.
if reasonable conditions could be obtained: Donald C. Watt, ed., Contemporary History in Europe: Problems and Perspectives (London: Allen & Unwin, 1969), 197.
nebulous peace overtures were made: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 189.
England’s destiny after the war: Rob Evans and David Hencke, “Hitler Saw Duke of Windsor as ‘No Enemy’ US File Reveals,” Guardian, January 24, 2003.
no quarter was given: Michael Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor, 149.
ensure that such an error never occur again: Michael Bloch, The Duke of Windsor’s War (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982), 75.
using the duke and duchess: Alan Palmer, Crowned Cousins, 221–22.
military uprising. Nothing came of it: John Colville, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004), 57.
Good God, no: Neill Lochery, Lisbon, notes, 28.
give the duke a naval command: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 364.
when everything can be considered: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi, 62.
no conditions, about the Duchess or otherwise: John Colville, Fringes of Power, 176.
only fitted to be a café society royal: Kenneth de Courcy papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University.
brinkmanship of an appalling kind: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 434.
any need for a prompt return: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi, 57–58.
following developments from afar: Ibid., 58–59.
governments after the war: German Foreign Ministry document AA-490/232262, Memorandum by the State Secretary Ernst von Weizsäcker, June 30, 1940, doc. 65: 68, Documents on German Foreign Policy.
prolonged destruction and suffering: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi, 59.
very pleasant, very genial, and very witty: MSS 1W4126cFA2, Weddell, A.W., Box 4, Elizabeth W. Weddell, Weddell Collection, Virginia Historical Society.
any peace party that may emerge: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi, 60–61.
a cowardly and rapacious vulture: Paul Preston, The Politics of Revenge: Fascism and the Military in 20th Century Spain (London: Routledge, 1995), 57.
against Churchill and against the war: German Foreign Ministry document AA-B15/B002538, Stohrer to Ribbentrop, July 2, 1940, Documents on German Foreign Policy.
wishes of the government: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill Vol. 6, Finest Hour, 1939–1941 (London: Heinemann, 1983), 698.
as he had been in December 1936: Roy Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography (London: Macmillan, 2001), 561.
before arranging the day and time: Lord Moran, Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965 (London: Constable, 1966), 97.
forestall flight out of the country: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 431.
Not as much as his brother will: John Colville, Fringes of Power, 184.
embarrassing both to HM and the Government: Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour, 700.
pretty freely criticized: John Barnes and David Nicholson, eds., The Empire at Bay: The Leo Amery Diaries 1929–1945 (London: Hutchinson, 1988), 631.
lowest of the low: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 520.
my brother has behaved disgracefully: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 217.
arch beachcombers of the world: Sybil Eccles and David Eccles, By Safe Hand: Letters of Sybil and David Eccles 1939–42 (London: Bodley Head, 1983), 128, 133.
done your best for me in difficult circumstances: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi, 79.
exile to St. Helena: Michael Thornton, “The Queen Mother? That Spiteful Old Soak Dedicated Herself to Making Our Lives Hell,” Daily Mail, September 19, 2009.
European ally to be kidnapped: Author interview with Douglas Wheeler.
until four in the morning: Jimmy Burns, Papa Spy: Love, Faith, and Betrayal in Wartime Spain (New York: Walker, 2009), 124.
heavy bombing will make England ready for peace: German Foreign Ministry document AA-B15/B002549 (GD D/X/152), Hoyningen-Huene to Ribbentrop, July 10, 1940, Documents on German Foreign Policy.
President of the Great British Republic: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi, 95.
Operation Cleopatra Whim: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 435.
A prince does not ask favours: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi, 133.
suitable for a king: German Foreign Ministry document AA-B15/B002549–51 (GD D/X/152), Ribbentrop to Stohrer, July 11, 1940, Documents on German Foreign Policy.
planned a public declaration: German Foreign Office document AA-B15/B002582-3, Stohrer to Ribbentrop, July 23, 1940, Documents on German Foreign Policy.
the duchess in particular became very thoughtful: German Foreign Office Document AA-B15/B002588 (GD D/X/290), Stohrer to Ribbentrop, July 25, 1940, Documents on German Foreign Policy.
cantankerous and maddening: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 369.
messed about quite long enough: Ibid., 370.
we shall be alright: Ibid., 369.
Cordell Hull, in Washington: National Archives, Diplomatic Branch 841.0011.102 1/2, Herbert Claiborne Pell to Secretary of State, 4:00 p.m., July 20, cited in Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 366.
Frenchmen in his company: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 366.
She has great influence over the duke: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi, 144.
every step has to be watched with care: Ibid., 174.
how can we be of any use to them?: H. Montgomery Hyde, Walter Monckton, 104.
you should not be too far away: Neill Lochery, Lisbon, 82.
disregarded or allowed to be destroyed: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi, 206.
the expected invasion of Britain: Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour, 709.
Germans could keep in contact: German Foreign Office document AA-B15/B002617-18 (GD D/X/265), Ribbentrop to Hoyningen-Huene, July 31, 1940, Documents on German Foreign Policy.
almost able to touch it: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi, 201.
admiration and sympathy for the Führer: German Foreign Office document AA-B15/B002632-3 (GD D/X/276), Hoyningen-Huene to Ribbentrop, August 2, 1940, Documents on German Foreign Policy.
German intrigues with the duke: John H. Waller, The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War (New York: I. B. Tauris, 1996), 172.
cousins did not try to work for a negotiated peace: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 218.
this theory seems implausible: Waller, The Unseen War in Europe, 171.
maid situation desperate: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi, 228.
their pink sheets: “Royal Feud,” Royalty 5, no. 3, https://www.royalty-magazine.com/archive/feud.html.
strange suspicions: H. Montgomery Hyde, Walter Monckton, 107.
banishment a wise move: Sarah Bradford, King George VI, 436.
show of loyalty to friends: Helen Worden, “The Duchess of Windsor,” American Mercury (June 1944), 675–81.
However… c’est la guerre: Author archive.
petty humiliations: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 178.
there would have been no war: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 337.
prepared to say yes or no: Diary of Guy Liddell, Deputy Director General of the Security Service, June to November 1945, KV 4/466, National Archives, Kew, UK.
conviction on it: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 395.
belief that they can do it: David Reynolds, Lord Lothian and Anglo-American Relations, 1939-40. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 73, Part 2 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1983).
initiating an effective peace move: Notes on Meetings with Sir William Wiseman, 09/02/1940–01/08/1941, GTM.GAMMS98, James D. Mooney papers, Box 1, Folder 22, Georgetown University Library Special Collections Research Center; also David Hayward, Mr. James D. Mooney: A Man of Missions, www.gmhistory.chevytalk.org/James_D_Mooney_by_David_Hayward.html.
in order to bring England down: George S. Messersmith (Havana) to Cordell Hull (Secretary of State, Washington), George S. Messersmith papers, MSS 109, Box 12 F90.
Windsor linked to Mooney separate peace: Jonathan Pile, Churchill’s Secret Enemy (Lulu.com, 2012), Appendix 2.
continuing his fight with Britain: Jim Wilson, Nazi Princess, 156–59; Scott Newton, Profits of Peace: The Political Economy of Anglo-German Appeasement. (London: Oxford University Press, 1996), 179–84.
she was a go-between: Robert Houghwout Jackson, That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 70.
as importantly as he might: Palm Beach Post, November 18, 1940.
a success from every point of view: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 183.
Bahamian islands for navy ships: Box 7, Grace Tully Collection, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY.
partisanship of the Windsors: John Colville, Fringes of Power, 332.
betrayal of Allied secrets: Fulton Oursler Jr., “Secret Treason,” American Heritage 42, no. 8 (December 1991), 61.
Edward, Duke of Windsor: Boake Carter, “But-Says,” Milwaukee Sentinel, December 31, 1940.
there isn’t a chance: Michael Pye, The King over the Water: The Scandalous Truth about the Windsors’ War Years (London: Hutchinson, 1981), 77–78.
paying US Customs duties: Andrew Roberts, The Holy Fox: The Life of Lord Halifax (London, Head of Zeus, 2014), 394.
their primary concern: Sarah Bradford, King George VI, 442.
a revolution they don’t want: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 393–94.
avoid discrediting him: Fred Taylor, ed., The Goebbels Diaries, 1939–41 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982), 344–45.
grow up and behave: Andrew Roberts, The Holy Fox, 393.
I used to in the past: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 186.
always tried to play my part: Ibid., 188.
America for herself: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 394.
supplant our democratic government: New York Times, October 8, 1937.
king of England: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 364.
English defeat were to be achieved: FBI files: 65-31113-19.
gave the Nazi salute: Martin Allen, Hidden Agenda: How the Duke of Windsor Betrayed the Allies (London: Macmillan, 2000), 275.
holding himself in readiness: Michael Bloch, Operation Willi, 223.
cruelty to animals: Andrew Roberts, The Holy Fox, 392.
this side of the Atlantic: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 189.
harm and not good: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 401.
his hotel was picketed: Michael Bloch, The Duke of Windsor’s War, 221.
he met him in the Bahamas: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 396.
the Nipponese hordes: Michael Bloch, The Duke of Windsor’s War, 225.
better than being on the outside: Ibid., 226.
replaced by one more conciliatory: John Colville, Fringes of Power, 516.
by which we were surprised: Lord Moran, Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965 (London: Constable, 1966), 97.
which he is doing at present: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 383.
I’m Mata Hari: Michael Bloch, The Duke of Windsor’s War, 289.
It is his own family who are against him: Ibid., 335.
highly damaging to themselves: Duff Hart-Davis, ed., King’s Counsellor, 351.
Can you shave in cold water?: Roger Weil, “The Unique Ambassador,” Sword & Trowel, no. 1 (2001).
a youngster from his church: Author interview with Roger Weil.
State Department memo of January 1944: Astrid M. Eckert, The Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 35.
their most important records: Historical Office Records relating to the German Documents Project, 1944–1983, Box 6, German War Documents 1944–1945, no. 2 of 2, Record Group 59, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.
local Nazi women’s organization: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 30.
Wish me good hunting: Letter from E. Ralph Perkins to E. Wilder Spaulding (London), April 2, 1945, Historical Office Records relating to the German Documents Project, 1944–1983, Box 9, GWD—for George O. Kent, no. 1 of 2, Record Group 59, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.
Geheim, or Secret: The Marburg File. BBC Radio 4, August 31, 1995, Tape 128/44.1.
probably not on record: Sacha Zala, Geschichte unter der Schere politischer Zensur: Amtliche Aktensammlungen im internationalen Vergleich, trans. Nathan Ernst (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2001), 165.
report about the extraordinary episode: Robert C. Thomson, Discovery of Secret Archives of German Foreign Ministry, report of May 22, 1945, PRO FO 371/46712C2548/G, National Archives, Kew, UK.
found “if possible”: Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee memorandum, April 20, 1945, CF 1945–1949, Box 4130, FW 840.414/5-145, Record Group 59, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.
the documents were indeed genuine: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 67.
red-hot propaganda material: Ibid., 64.
German and Italian policy: Note of Foreign Office meeting, June 19, 1945, FO 371/46713 C3209/G, National Archives, Kew, UK.
writers, radio commentators: Sacha Zala, Geschichte, 169.
inside the American zone: Ibid., 183.
impact on international politics: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 64.
find the source of the leak: Ibid., 76.
Mosley becoming public knowledge: Note from George Middleton (Brit Emb Washington) to W. C. Dowling, July 21, 1945, Box 5702, 840.414/7-2145, RG 59, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.
distinctly unusual material: The Marburg File, BBC Radio 4.
tantamount to treason: John Costello, Ten Days to Destiny: The Secret Story of the Hess Peace Initiative and British Efforts to Strike a Deal with Hitler (New York: William Morrow, 1991).
to some extent on their side: The Marburg File, BBC Radio 4.
impediment to co-operation: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 70.
Paris peace conference of 1919: Sacha Zala, Geschichte, 291.
these German intrigues: John Costello, Mask of Treachery, 419.
greatest possible harm: Ibid.
a job here or anywhere: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 599.
secure a negotiated settlement: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 218.
necessitated urgent action: Sarah Bradford, King George VI, 427.
fall in to the wrong hands: Alan Lascelles to Sir Ian Jacob, July 25, 1945, NA RA 802 775057, National Archives, Kew, UK.
I kept this secret: Associated Press, June 10, 1990.
haven’t you, Mr Piper: Andrew Morton, Theirs Is the Kingdom: Wealth of the Windsors (London: Michael O’Mara, 1989), 78.
the artist or the sitter: Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001), 305.
his efforts during the war: Author interview.
two very influential informers: Viktor Popov, The Queen’s advisor who was a super agent of the Kremlin [in Russian] (Moscow: Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniya, 2005), 131–41.
the royal mission to Germany in 1945: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 340–41.
especially the press: Roland Perry, Last of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight (Boston: Da Capo, 2005), 163.
he had real, if obscure authority: Ibid., 165–69.
make off with their booty: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 337–38; Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives, 312.
handed over to Sir Owen Morshead: Kenneth Alford, The Spoils of World War II: The American Military’s Role in Stealing Europe’s Treasures (New York: Birch Lane, 1994), 116.
souvenir-hunting American officers: Ibid., 118, 165.
a ‘Windsor file’: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 342.
such letters existed in 1945: Author interview.
Windsor was a traitor: Author interview.
files in Germany that needed to be secured: Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 341.
They are only on loan: Diary of Guy Liddell, KV 4/466, National Archives, Kew, UK.
called on Karl Marx: John Costello, Mask of Treachery, 406.
set royal minds to rest: Duff Hart-Davis, ed., King’s Counsellor, 324–25.
regrettable from a historical viewpoint: William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 899.
it never would have happened: Diary of Guy Liddell, KV 4/466, National Archives, Kew, UK.
Captured German Documents: Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives, 313.
worth the candle: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill. Vol. 8, Never Despair, 1945–1965 (London: Heinemann, 1983), 174.
I am sorry for them: Brendan Bracken, Max Aitken Beaverbrook, and Richard Cockett, My Dear Max: The Letters of Brendan Bracken to Lord Beaverbrook, 1925–1958 (London: Historians’ Press, 1990), 65.
hearth rug bore: Duff Hart-Davis, ed., King’s Counsellor, 367.
of interest only to the British: Paul Robinson Sweet papers, PRO notes, 20, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California.
unfair to the duke: John Costello, Mask of Treachery, 419.
to the Bahamas in 1940: Author interview.
dossier on September 5, 1945: J. D. Beam to Murphy, October 2, 1945, Record Group 84, POLAD, entry 2531B, Box 37, National Archives.
passed it on to the Foreign Office: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 72.
represented true statements: POLAD, Classified General Correspondence, 1945–49, Record Group 84, entry 2531B, Box 37, [Archives] Location 350/57/18/02, US National Archives and Records Administration.
member of the royal family: Memorandum [no author], May 20, 1946, Record Group 59, Lot File 78D441, Historical Office, Box 13, National Archives.
special restrictions on the file: Record Group 59, CDF, 1945–49, 862.414/8–645, National Archives.
history of the war: Record Group 59, CDF, 1945–49, 862.4016–862.42, Box 6836, National Archives.
transaction over the file: David Harris papers, Box 22, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford.
peace with the United Kingdom in 1940: Record Group 59, Lot File 78D441, Historical Office Records relating to the German Documents Project, 1944–83, Box 6, Historical Office, National Archives.
private life of Queen Elizabeth: Record Group 59, Lot File 78D441, Historical Office, National Archives.
communicated to us: John Balfour to Dean Acheson, October 7, 1945, Record Group 59, Lot File 78D441, Box 6, Historical Office, National Archives.
tamper with official documents: Herbert S. Marks to Dean G. Acheson, October 10, 1945, Record Group 59, Lot File 78D441, Box 13, Historical Office, National Archives.
consultation with the British government: Record Group 59, Lot File 78D441, Box 13, Historical Office, National Archives.
unless he carried out his orders: Record Group 59, Lot File 78D441, Box 24, Folder C103, Historical Office, National Archives.
especially the Queen: Robert D. Murphy papers, Box 163, Folder 5, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford.
her relatives, the Brunswicks: Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives, 315.
Henry the Lion: Diary of Guy Liddell, KV 4/467, National Archives.
past hundred years: Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives, 318.
their own corrupt behaviour: Ibid., 315.
I dare say, tyranny: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 74.
gaps in the German Foreign Office files: Record Group 59, Lot File 78D441, Historical Office, National Archives.
parties we have in mind: Paul Robinson Sweet papers, PRO notes, 7, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford.
exploitation by U.S. representatives: Sacha Zala, Geschichte, 188.
irreplaceable historical archives: H. Freeman Mathews (EUR) to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes (Washington), January 31, 1946, Record Group 59, CF 1945–49 (Conf.), Box 5703, FW 840.414/1–2946, National Archives.
monarchy through their eyes: Record Group 59, Lot File 78D441, Historical Office, National Archives.
brought home to Germany: Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, Friends, Enemies and Sovereigns (London: Macmillan, 1976), 66–67.
information to our shores: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 294.
file had been mislabelled: Letter from Otto Pflanze to Paul Sweet, September 22, 1991, Paul Robinson Sweet papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford.
Department agreed to undertake: Sarah Bradford, King George VI, 428.
for HMG to decide: Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, Vol II, 1939–1965, ed. Kenneth Young (London: Macmillan, 1980), 572.
bulk of its contents: Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, Friends, Enemies and Sovereigns, 81–82.
please his chief, Ribbentrop: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 473.
telegram two days later: Sarah Bradford, King George VI, 427.
the Bismarck era: Victoria Schofield, Witness to History: The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 185.
think right—isn’t it: William Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, 421.
to the highest bidder: Sarah Bradford, King George VI, 447.
undergo a hysterectomy: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 244.
ice-veined bitches: Sarah Bradford, King George VI, 448.
bunch of old hags: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 279.
disagreeable facts emerging: Author interview.
take another five years: Security Information, July 28, 1953, Paul Robinson Sweet papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford.
they would be published: Paul R. Sweet, “The Problem of Official Intervention in the Publication of Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1933–1941,” Sweet papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, p. 17, edited version in Historian 59, no. 2 (December 1997).
leaving his job before long: Ibid.
outside the secret circles: Winston Churchill to Dwight D. Eisenhower, June 27, 1953, President–Churchill (vol. 11) May 28, 1953 to October 14, 1953 (3), Box 18, Eisenhower, Dwight D.: Papers as President of the United States, 1953–61 (Ann Whitman File), Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, Kansas.
decency, justice and finality: Dwight D. Eisenhower to Winston Churchill, July 2, 1953, President–Churchill (vol. 11) May 28, 1953 to Oct 14, 1953 (5), Box 18, Eisenhower, Dwight D.: Papers as President (Ann Whitman File).
told about this matter: Beaverbrook papers, BBK/G/25/xx40L, House of Lords Record Office, London.
will probably leak: Memo, personal and confidential, from General W. Bedell Smith to Dwight Eisenhower (Washington), July 6, 1953, Record Group 59 CF 1950–1954, Box 967, 023.1/7–653, National Archives.
satisfactory answers: Bernadotte E. Schmitt to Bernard Noble, July 30, 1953, Paul Robinson Sweet papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford.
different period first: Beaverbrook papers, BBK/G/25/xxi 40L, House of Lords Record Office, London.
still set on suppression: John Colville, Fringes of Power, 675.
into the long grass: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 251, 254, cited Confidential Record of Cabinet Discussion on August 25, 1953. C. C. (53) 50th Conclusion, Top Secret, No Circulation Record.
do its work first: Margaret Lambert to Paul Sweet, October 8, 1953, Paul Robinson Sweet papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford.
cooked up: The Marburg File, BBC Radio 4.
integrity of the project: Paul Sweet to Margaret Lambert, October 4, 1953, Paul Robinson Sweet papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford.
for such a decision: Ibid., November 4, 1953.
Eisenhower in Bermuda: Paul Sweet, “The Problem of Official Intervention in the Publication of Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1933–1941,” Sweet papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, 28.
Prime Minister downwards: Margaret Lambert to Paul Sweet, November 13, 1953, Paul Robinson Sweet papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford.
democratic West Germany: Captured German Documents, FO 370/2371, 29 January 54, National Archives, Kew, UK.
fall into wrong hands: Captured German Documents, FO 370/2371, Top Secret 38a, National Archives, Kew, UK.
allowed to develop: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 234.
handed back to Germany: PRO, FO 2371, Top Secret 38 Green, 46 Green; CAB 128: Records of Cabinet, cited by Paul R. Sweet in “The Problem of Intervention in the Publication of Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1933–1941,” Sweet papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford, 29.
educate the German people: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 254.
waived any objections: PRO, FO 2374, 129, 143, cited by Paul R. Sweet in “The Windsor File.”
highest scholarly objectivity: Times (London), November 17, 1954.
the duke’s behaviour: Paul Sweet, “The Problem of Intervention in the Publication of Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1933–1941,” Sweet papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford, 29.
exceedingly unhappy and worried: Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII, 428.
to which I agreed: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 254, cited letter from Duke of Windsor to Sir Walter Monckton, January 18, 1955, PRO CAB 21/3776.
so wonderful a friend: Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, Friends, Enemies and Sovereigns, 139.
no mention of me shall appear therein: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 296.
family and their courtiers: David Cannadine, History in Our Time (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), 60.
stink in our nostrils: Astrid Eckert, Struggle for the Files, 258.
will be a lot more: Margaret Lambert to Paul Sweet, January 31, 1956, Paul Robinson Sweet papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford.
never saw him after 1937: Associated Press, July 23, 1956.
press were quite naïve: Author interview.
they failed to do it: Times (London), August 1, 1957.
“actual” guilt: Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII, 428–29.
German or Spanish: Bryan and Murphy, The Windsor Story, 429.
not convicted: Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 375.
his primary concerns: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, 227–28.
promote peace, not war: Documents on German Foreign Policy, no. 1862, vol. V, 8, 108869.
avoided in 1939: John Parker, King of Fools, 236–37.
a negotiated peace: Charles Higham, The Duchess of Windsor, 441.
maps and plans were kept: Sarah Bradford, King George VI, 435.
anything I said: Lady Diana Cooper, Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich, 1939–1952 (London: Chatto & Windus, 2013), 379.
they’re all we have: Andrew Roberts, The Holy Fox, 393.
pragmatic sanction: Peter Viereck, Conservative Thinkers: From John Adams to Winston Churchill (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005), 50.