1. Hamilton, p.31
2. Ibid., p.58
3. National Archives, MEPO 10/35
4. Duke of Windsor to Monckton, 28 November 1938, Dep Monckton Trustees 16
5. Hardinge to Monckton, 13 December 1938, Dep Monckton Trustees 16
6. National Archives, MEPO 10/35
7. Duke of Windsor to Chamberlain, 9 January 1939, Dep Monckton Trustees 17
8. Duke of Windsor memorandum, 28 January 1939, Dep Monckton Trustees 17
9. Monckton to Chamberlain, 1 February 1939, Dep Monckton Trustees 17
10. Monckton to Duke of Windsor, 22 March 1939, Dep Monckton Trustees 17
11. Robert Boothby, letter to Daily Telegraph, 19 March 1939
12. Helen Hardinge, account of conversation with the king and queen, 26 April 1939, Hardinge Papers, U2117 (Acc 2349/89)
13. Vickers, p.184
14. Joseh Israels II, ‘Selling George VI to the United States’, Scribner’s, May 1939
15. Bloch, pp.313–14
16. Ibid., p.138
17. Channon, 9 May 1939
18. Duke of Kent to George VI, 16 May 1939, Royal Archives, RA/GVI/ PRIV/RF/02
19. Lascelles, p.9
20. Lord Tweedsmuir to Hardinge, 22 May 1939, John Buchan Papers, Queen’s University Archives
21. Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 23 May 1939, Royal Archives, RA/QEII/PRIV/RF
22. Dep Monckton Trustees 15
23. Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 27 May 1939, Royal Archives, RA/QEII/PRIV/RF
24. Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 1 June 1939, Royal Archives, RA/ QM/PRIV/CC12/99
25. Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p.270
26. Bradford, p.292
27. Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 June 1939, Royal Archives, RA/QM/PRIV/CC12/101
28. Bradford, p.295
29. Ibid., p.296
30. Ibid., p.297
31. Mackenzie King to Roosevelt, 1 July 1939, Roosevelt Library, PSF Great Britain
32. Nicolson, p.405