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3: Heiress
1. Norman Hartnell, Silver and Gold (1955), p. 94
2. Hugo Vickers, Cecil Beaton (1985), pp. 226–7
3. Information on the Guides in this paragraph is based on interviews with members of
the group.
4. RL/HRH Princess Elizabeth, ‘The Coronation, 12 May 1937’
5. cited in Sir John W. Wheeler–Bennett, King George VI (1958), pp. 312–13
6. Unpublished private memoir
7. Bodleian Library, Dep. Monckton Trustees, MS9 f. 52, George VI to Monckton, 1
March 1942, cited in Bradford, op. cit., p. 408
8. Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward, Letters 1931–1937 (1986), p. 238
9. Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Sir Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1930–1939 (1966), pp.
297–8
10. PRONI, Londonderry Papers, D.3099/13/26, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to
Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, 31 May 1937
11. Beaverbrook Papers, BBK G/23, Folder XIII
12. cited in John Vincent (ed.), The Crawford Papers (1984), pp. 617–18
13. cited in 2nd Earl of Birkenhead, Walter Monckton (1969), p. 169
14. University of Birmingham, Chamberlain Papers, NC 7/4/8, HM Queen Elizabeth the
Queen Mother to Chamberlain, 2 July 1938
15. cited in Philip Ziegler, Mountbatten (1985), p. 102
4: Windsor War
1. cited in Trefor Evans (ed.), The Killearn Diaries (1972), p. 107
2. cited in Wheeler–Bennett, op. cit., p. 304
3. Chamberlain Papers, NC 7/4/10, HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to
Chamberlain, 17 May 1940
4. PRO PREM 4/10/4, Hailsham to Churchill, 19 June 1940
5. PRO WORK 29/1052, 27 September 1941
6. Mark Girouard, Windsor: The Most Romantic Castle (1993), p. 8
7. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember (New York, 1949), p. 209
8. RA GVI PS 5850
9. RA GVI PS 222/23, Sir Gerald Wollaston to Lascelles, 6 January 1944; 222/52 memo,
by Lascelles