1. Bloch, The Reign & Abdication of Edward VIII, p.153
2. Ibid., p.294
3. Halifax to Oliver Stanley, 22 November 1943, Halifax Archives, HALIFAX A4/410/4/18
4. Churchill to Duke of Windsor, 10 June 1943, Churchill Archives, CHAR 20/100/10
5. Bloch, The Reign & Abdication of Edward VIII, p.295
6. Wallis Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 24 August 1943, in Bloch, The Reign & Abdication of Edward VIII, p 303
7. Wallis Windsor, p.355
8. Duke of Windsor to King George VI, 2 June 1943, in Bloch, The Reign & Abdication of Edward VIII, p.296 (the letter exists only in draft form, raising the possibility it was never sent)
9. Bloch, The Reign & Abdication of Edward VIII, p.303
10. Ibid., p.305
11. National Archives, CO 23/714/5
12. Miami Herald, 22 July 1943
13. Wallis Windsor to Bessie Merriman, 24 August 1943, in Bloch, The Reign & Abdication of Edward VIII, p.308
14. Duke of Windsor to Oliver Stanley, 10 August 1943, in Ibid, pp.311–2
15. Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p.482
16. Ibid., p.483
17. Halifax to Stanley, 22 November 1943, Halifax Archives, HALIFAX A4/410/4/18
18. Stanley to Halifax, 1 December 1943, Halifax Archives, HALIFAX A4/410/4/18
19. Halifax to Stanley, 16 December 1943, Halifax Archives, HALIFAX A4/410/4/18
20. National Archives, KV 2/4412
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. ‘C’ (Sir David Petrie) documents, Royal Archives, RA/042A/298
25. Alexander Cadogan to ‘C’, 5 May 1941, Royal Archives, RA/042A/297
26. National Archives, KV 2/4412