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3. Cecil Beaton, ‘Reviewing the Queen’, Vogue (US edition), 1 July 1936.
4. Edith M. Vigers, Evening Standard, 11 February 1936.
5. Henry Eaves, The Cunard Steam Ship Co Ltd., 1840–1930, unpublished manuscript, University of Liverpool SCA, p. 436.
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8. Richard Collier, The Rainbow People, p. 169.
9. Richard Rhodes, Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Vintage Books, 2011, p. 108.
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12. Sowerbutts, op.cit., p. 210.
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16. Ashley Halsey III, ‘The Queen Mary Saved Hundreds of Jews from the Nazis, even as St Louis was Turned Away’, Washington Post, 21 September 2019.
17. Sowerbutts, op.cit., p. 198.
18. Dorothy Scobie, A Stewardess Rings a Bell, Stylus, 1990, p. 84.