“His tenderness and Firmness”: Ibid.
“Now she lies”: PH, p. 353.
“I don’t want to die yet”: Viscount Esher, Vol. I, p. 282.
“to the doleful sound”: Leslie, The Film of Memory, p. 162.
“... a very small coffin”: Ibid.
“The procession”: Ibid.
“London was plunged in fog”: Ibid.
Chapter 9
“We are to be called”: PH, 354.
“I believe this is”: Ibid.
“The Sanctity of the Viscount Esher, Vol. I, p. 280.
“I was tired”: Ibid., p. 288.
“a smart difference of opinion”: Ibid., p. 285.
“in tearing”: Ibid., p. 289.
“some of them”: Hibbert, The Court at Windsor, footnote 240.
“I do not know”: St. Aubyn, Edward VII, p. 140.
“The King plays bridge”: Viscount Esher, Vol. I, p. 291.
“The oak dining room”: Ibid., p. 291.
“I regret”: Ibid., p. 292.
“I sent a list of queries”: Ibid., p. 279.
“I know better than all”: Battiscombe, p. 219.
“The opening of”: Viscount Esher, Vol. I, p. 284.
“Saw the King again”: Ibid., p. 297.
“uncontested arbiter”: Duke of Windsor, A Family Album, p. 35.
“Stiff as a breast-plate”: Ibid., p. 38.
“Queen Alexandra”: Ibid., p. 39.
“one could see handkerchiefs”: Ibid., p. 40.
“I detest the sea”: PH, p. 366.
“lest she spoil”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 17.
“My darling Mama and Papa”: Gore, George V, p. 164.
“My dearest little Bertie”: Ibid.
“the only thing”: Battiscombe, p. 241.
“little David caught”: Ibid.
“You must not kill him”: Ibid., p. 240
“to assume”: PH, p. 368.
“the proper Royal”: Ibid.
“I could never have”: PH, p. 369.
“the drastically altered”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 18.
“surrounded by pleasure”: Harry Price, p. 27.
“simply deafening”: Ibid.
“May and I went”: RA, George V’s Journal, January 16, 1902.
“the Windsor climate”: Ibid.
“The feminine”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 18.
“I hope your kilts”: Ibid., p. 24.
“Well, soon I”: Gore, George V, p. 184.
“comforted by the fact”: Ibid.
“formally almost coldly”: Lady Airlie, p. 102.
“Dearest, dearest”: Ibid.
“Money was the passport”: Ibid., p. 194.
Chapter 10
“Why”: Viscount Esher; Vol. I, p. 330.
“I think he”: Ibid., p. 331.
“I have never felt”: Lady Lygon to Lady Ampthill, June 27, 1902.
“Oh I do pray”: PH, p. 372.
“smoking a cigar”: Gore, George V, p. 180.
“One of Prince Edward’s”: Viscount Esher, Vol. I, p. 345.
“I don’t think”: Ibid.
“One source”: Ibid., p. 346.
“She is a funny”: Ibid., p. 346.
“He had the Victorian’s”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 28.
“an almost fanatical”: Ibid.
“railroad precision”: Ibid.
“His Royal Highness”: Ibid.
“the seat of paternal”: Ibid.
“a royal command”: Duke of Windsor, A Family Album, p. 24.
“had difficulty enough”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 27.
“On this being reported”: Ibid., p. 29 (footnote).
“I must always remember”: Lady Airlie, p. 112.
“Very good reception”: PH, p. 372.
“My Princess May”: Lady Lygon to Lady Ampthill, August 14, 1902.
“all up the front”: Ibid.
Chapter 11
“Monarchy”: Harold Nicolson, George VI, p. 62.
“A family on the throne”: Burke’s Peerage, p. 5455.
“the home is revered”: Ibid.
“pool without a ripple”: Ibid.
“had found the”: Brent, p. 233.
“let down”: Ibid.
“kind, deep”: Keppel, p. 23.
“a fascinating game”: Ibid.
“Then, bets”: Ibid.
“embossed with”: Ibid.
“In my life”: Ibid.
“quite unmoved”: Princess Marie Louise, p. 173.
“that to wear it”: Ibid.
“absolutely unruffled”: Ibid., p. 174.
“I was horrified hearing”: Battiscombe, p. 253.
“It is queer”: Viscount Esher, Vol. I, p. 373.
“The house looked lovely”: RA, Queen Mary’s Diary, May 10, 1903.
“Motherdear”: Ibid.
“rang through the”: Lady Airlie, p. 107.
“Her Majesty says”: Ibid.
“How can I tell the King”: Ibid.
“used to talk”: Ibid.
“But Mama doesn’t”: Ibid., p. 109.
“for an Imperial”: Morris, p. 146.
“Much as I love him”: PA, p. 124.
“Don’t worry about that”: Ibid.
“from boyhood”: Ibid., p. 128.
“My goodness!”: Gore, George V, p. 82.
“Their ample figures”: PH, p. 382.
“a swift jab”: Ibid.
“jumpy”: Ibid., p. 392.
“Of course it is a”: RA, George V, CC 51 39.
“The pleasure I”: RA, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz to Princess of Wales, January 12, 1905.
“A charming man”: Gore, George V, p. 194.
“freshly scrubbed”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 26.
“where he would remain”: Ibid.
“Old Black Joe”: Ibid.
“was Dickens in a”: Ibid., p. 52.
“scores of”: Ibid.
“and as the”: Ibid.
“who would”: Ibid., p. 54.
“I really believe”: PH, p. 390.
Chapter 12
“Fancy you ‘Miss May’ ”: RA, QA to Princess of Wales, December 29, 1905.
“Lovely India,”: PH, p. 396.
“coddled by”: Collins and Lapierre, p. 26.
“Everyone with”: Ibid.
“In all the papers”: PH, p. 396
“Your dresses”: Ibid.
“out of his time”: Morris, p. 114.
“with a respect”: Ibid.
“regarded the Indians”: Ibid., p. 112.
“a little bundle”: Arthur, George V, p. 87.
“I have been reading”: Harold Nicolson, George V, pp. 86–87.
“Dear David”: Battiscombe, p. 24.
“I do envy you”: Ibid., p. 260.
“I am glad”: Ibid., p. 261.
“I must say”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 88.
“No doubt”: Ibid.
“convinced that”: Ibid.
“in a dream”: PH, p. 398.
“The Maharani”: Ibid.
“We are now staying”: Ibid.
“48 massed bands”: Ibid.
“We steamed away”: Ibid.
“I thank you”: Frankland, p. 9.
“Darling Harry”: Ibid.
“very cold and stiff”: Donaldson, p. 27.
“Come in”: Saunders, p. 18.
“David ought to have”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 31.
“The two boys”: Ibid.
“So Ena”: PH, p. 401.
“swot up”: Ibid.
“disturbing influence”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 42.
“with an agonising problem”: Ibid.
“with painful care”: Ibid.
“Like little wantan”: Shakespeare, Henry VIII.
“the common touch”: PH, p. 402.
“Did y
ou see”: Ibid.
“What can I say”: Debrett’s Foreign Royalties, p. 88.
“to refresh ourselves”: PH, p. 404.
“through ornamental gardens”: Ibid.
“like a collossus”: Ibid.
“The service in the church”: Gore, p. 211.
“Just before our carriage”: Ibid.
“I saw a man”: Ibid., p. 212.
“not easy after the”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 95.
“We can only thank”: PH, p. 406.
“Very hot affair”, Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 96.
“My birthday”: Gore, p. 213.
“So Maud is sitting”: PH, p. 407.
“old family”: Viscount Esher, Vol. II, p. 139.
Chapter 13
“walked off”: Ibid., p. 53.
“Here Sir”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 51.
“two hundred shoulders”: Tschumi, p. 45.
“la Bonne cuisine”: Ibid.
“a bonfire blaze”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 48.
“an anxious eye”: Ibid.
“The Navy will”: Ibid.
“I am appalled”: Ibid.
“The British constitutional”: Ibid.
“to a hard iron bed”: Ibid.
“blaring bugle”: Ibid.
“he’s too puny”: Ibid.
“You are the Prince”: Ibid., p. 63.
“A moment later”: Ibid.
“alternately going round”: Ibid.
“six official cuts”: Ibid.
“with true Irish sympathy”: Ibid.
“a crude reminder of”: Ibid.
“fortunately”: Ibid.
“the next morning Finch”: Ibid.
“You must”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 32.
“he was the most shy”: Ibid., p. 33.
“where he seems to have”: Ibid.
“grit and never-say-I’m”: Ibid.
“wore such a sad”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 69.
“You must remember”: Frankland, p. 10.
“thundery weather”: Ibid.
“Now that you are”: Ibid.
“something of a handful”: Ibid.
“academically, musically”: Ibid.
“She will indeed”: PH, p. 417.
Chapter 14
“mere signing machine”: Hibbert, The Court of St. James’s, p. 54.
“few prerogatives”: Ibid.
“completely left in the dark”: Ibid.
“that the poor”: St. Aubyn, Edward VII, p. 415.
“the preaching of”: Ibid.
“in the most vigourous”: Ibid.
“perfectly disgraceful”: Ibid.
“implacable warfare”: Times, April 30, 1909.
“primarily a campaign”: St. Aubyn, Edward VII, p. 417.
“both embarrassing”: Battiscombe, p. 268.
“leave that horrid”: Ibid.
“sat sad-eyed”: St. Aubyn, Edward VII, p. 419.
“so unlike [the King]”: Ibid.
“I am Caesar”: Stamper, p. 72.
“Caesar was neither”: Ibid.
“Caesar! Come here!”: Ibid.
“You naughty”: Ibid.
“the very essence”: St. Aubyn, Edward VII, pp. 380–381.
“curious air”: Sitwell, p. 43.
“because kings and queens”: Ibid.
“hunched ... grey”: St. Aubyn, Edward VII, p. 473.
“I shall work to the end”: Ibid.
“At 11:45”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 105.
“darling May”: Ibid.
“Across the Mall”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 73.
“grew with fatigue”: Ibid.
“What did you say?”: Ibid.
“May and I watched”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 125.
“I went up” (footnote): J. A. Spender and Cyril Asquith, The Life of H. H. Asquith, p. 296.
“that the High”: Times, May 10, 1910.
“George dislikes”: RA, Queen Mary to Grand Duchess Augusta.
“The Queen sent for me”: Viscount Esher, Vol. III, May 10, 1910, p. 1.
“the blinds were down”: Ponsonby, p. 380.
“I debated”: Ibid.
“They want to take him”: Battiscombe, p. 273.
“stood rigidly”: Ibid.
“to show a foreign relative”: Ibid.
“A glorious service”: Ibid.
“They took him”: Ibid.
“I am now very tired”: PH, p. 422.
“The odd part”: Ibid., p. 423.
“All the long”: Tuchman, Guns of August, p. 21.
“a very nice boy”: Ibid., p. 16.
“And so my Georgie”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 42.
“cast earth upon the coffin”: Battiscombe, p. 273.
“by the Grace of”: Ibid.
“a mere child”: Viscount Esher, Vol. III, June 4, 1910, p. 7.
“beyond the time”: Ibid.
“subtle respect”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 75.
“I am so awfully sorry”: Frankland, p. 18.
“I saw Francis Knollys”: Viscount Esher, Vol. III, May 31, 1910, p. 5.
“I have known all”: Viscount Esher, Vol II, p. 461.
“abiding sense of his regal”: Times, May 24, 1910.
“The whole task”: PH, p. 423.
“There’ll be no wo’ar”: Pelissier’s Follies of 1909.
“kept things together”: Times, May 24, 1910.
Chapter 15
“Life is too fatiguing”: PH, p. 424.
“for we were so very”: Ibid.
“broke down and wept”: Ibid.
“lies with that of”: Ibid.
“It is altogether”: Viscount Esher, Vol. III, August 21, 1910, p. 15.
“running round”: Ibid.
“I went yesterday”: Ibid., p. 16.
“We had a drive”: Ibid., p. 17.
“As far as”: Colville, p. 108 (footnote).
“I believe the right”: Duke of Windsor’s papers, Queen Mary to Edward Prince of Wales, June II, 1910.
“unwinning”: Ibid.
“the King sat”: Ibid.
“a week of intimate talk”: Ibid.
“no bed of roses”: RA, Queen Mary to Grand Duchess Augusta, August 10, 1910.
“so to speak”: PH, p. 423.
“Her passion”: Ibid.
“The fact”: Ibid.
“she would no longer”: Ibid., p. 424.
“I used to be rather”: Ibid.
“serious jewels to display”: PH, p. 425.
“to grow old”: PH, p. 431.
“Willy dear”: Battiscombe, p. 274.
“It is rather strange”: RA, George V, CC 8121.
“I am sure”: RA, George V, CC 466.
“I so understand”: RA, Grand Duchess Augusta to Queen Mary, December 15, 1910.
“there was considerable”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 46.
“I am so afraid”: Ibid.
“Well at last”: PH, p. 433.
“I feel more”: Ibid.
“I really am beginning”: Ibid., March 5, 1911.
“I expect you will”: RA, George V, AA 3726, February 26, 1911.
“Our dear old rooms”: RA, Queen Alexandra to Queen Mary, February 27, 1911.
“Will be a great ordeal”: PH, p. 433.
“a pitiable figure”: Battiscombe, p. 274.
“hopeless & helpless”: Ibid.
“My Darling May”: RA, Queen Alexandra to Queen Mary, February 27,1911 (footnote).
“Just as well”: Battiscombe, p. 274
“Oh! That we have been”: PH, p. 438.
“May God bless”: PH, p. 441.
“Eddy should be King”: Ibid.
Chapter 16
“had ceased to be”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 108.
“profoundly shaken”: Ibid.
&n
bsp; “After a long talk”: Ibid., p. 138.
“a new period: Tuchman, The Proud Tower, p. 461.
“It is so funny”: Princess Marie Louise, p. 177.
“Yes, of course”: Ibid.
“absolutely did not”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 186.
“I asked him”: Ibid., p. 185.
“a fiasco for”: Winston Churchill, The World Crisis, Vol. I, p. 114.
“deep and violent passions”: Ibid.
“After Papa & Mama”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 79.
“each with its vision”: Independent, Vol. 71, July 13, 1911.
“multitudinously crowded”: Ibid.
“bustling and brilliant”: Ibid.
“double dazzling”: Ibid.
“most beautiful”: RA, George V, Diary, June 22, 1911.
“To me, who”: Ibid.
“by the powerful and mild”: Times, June 22, 1911.
“All the relatives”: Ibid.
“I, Edward, Prince of Wales”: Ibid.
“It reminded me so much”: RA, Queen Mary to Grand Duchess Augusta, June 25, 1911.
“Then Mama was crowned”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 258a.
“We left Westminster Abbey”: Ibid., 263a.
“melliftously proclaiming”: Ibid., p. 81.
“Half-fainting”: Ibid.
“a painful discovery”: Ibid.
Chapter 17
“more English, and less”: Harper’s Magazine, July 1911.
“a boisterously British”: Ibid.
“not because he likes it”: Ponsonby, p. 392.
“It is impossible”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 155.
“What a remarkable year”: Tuchman, The Proud Tower, p. 47.
“I am convinced”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 167.
“The cost of such a proceeding”: Ibid.
“not without a certain amount”: Ibid., p. 168.
“unfitting for a ceremony”: Ibid.
“wearing his crown”: Ibid.
“an irresistible temptation”: Ibid., p. 169.
“I shall never”: PH, p. 452.
“mushroom bank”: Ibid.
“vivid pink”: Ibid., p. 457.
“It was a”: Queen Mary to Grand Duchess Augusta, September 8, 1911.
“there were crowds”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 170.
“a large square”: Our King and Queen, Vol. II, p. 504.
“to suppose that”: Ibid., p. 505.
“increasing solicitude”: PH, p. 458.
“The jewel”: Ibid.
“in a regular”: Viscount Esher, Vol. III, p. 81.
“was the most wonderful”: PH, p. 459.
“Mama’s emeralds”: Ibid., p. 460.
“Each year”: RA, George V, CC 4–86.
“very proud”: Ibid.
“too European”: PH, p. 461.
“I simply couldn’t help”: Ibid., p. 462.
“What joy that there”: Ibid.
“Characteristically feminine”: Colville, p. 111.