| AER | Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1961). |
| AKS | The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story (London: Cassell, 1951). |
| CC | Geoffrey C. Ward, ed., Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1995). |
| COB | William Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (London: Macmillan, 2012). |
| DMK | The Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King [www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/king/]. |
| EAC | Frank Prochaska, The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008). |
| FAL | Joseph E. Persico, Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life (New York, NY: Random House, 2008). |
| FDR:CF | Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Champion of Freedom (New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2003). |
| GVI:HLR | John W. Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI: His Life and Reign (London: Macmillan, 1958). |
| KS | Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy (London: Quercus, 2010). |
| NAS | Keith V Gordon, North America Sees Our King and Queen (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1939). |
| PRO FO | Foreign Office files in Public Record Office, London. |
| RR | Will Swift, The Roosevelts and the Royals (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004). |
| RWD | Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough, A Rendezvous with Destiny: The Roosevelts of the White House (New York, NY: Putnam, 1975). |
| TIR | Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember (New York, NY: Praeger, 1975). |
| VOS | G. Gordon Young, Voyage of State (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939). |