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10. Beaverbrook Papers, BBK H/165, John Gordon to Beaverbrook, 23 March 1954
11. cited in Ziegler, op. cit., p. 308
12. Private collection, HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Osbert Sitwell, 21 June
1944
13. National Army Museum WRAC Archive, diary of Eileen Heron, 1945
14. Interview with the late Earl of Carnarvon, 25 January 1989
5: A Princely Marriage
1. In conversation with Basil Boothroyd, 1970
2. John Dean, HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: A Portrait by his Valet (n.d.), p. 35
3. Interview with the Countess Mountbatten, 5 May 1993
4. Sir John W. Wheeler–Bennett, Friends, Enemies and Sovereigns (1976), p. 137
5. cited in Ziegler, op. cit., p. 457
6. cited in Bradford, op. cit., p. 391
7. Peter Townsend, Time and Chance (1978), pp. 177–8
8. Private diary
9. The Act of Settlement of 1701 provided that in the event of Queen Anne dying
without issue, the Crown was to be settled on the nearest Protestant heir, the Electress
Sophia of Hanover (mother of George I). As the youngest daughter of Elizabeth of
Bohemia, the Winter Queen, eldest daughter of James I, the Electress Sophia was a
direct descendant of the Stuart kings. By Act of Parliament she and all her
descendants were given British nationality. This appears not to have been generally
known; in 1955 Prince Ernst August of Hanover went to court and eventually to the
House of Lords to prove his British nationality. The Government was dismayed to find
that some 400 persons, mainly German, were therefore British. PRO PREM 11/4438,
minute by J. G. Phelps for the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, 24 July 1959
10. Private collection, HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Osbert Sitwell, 10 July
1947. The Queen Mother is referring to the repeated UN vetoes of Allied proposals by
Molotov, then Foreign Minister of the USSR.
11. cited in Bradford, op. cit., p. 386
12. cited in Ziegler, op. cit., p. 458
13. Beaverbrook Papers, BBK H/121, John Gordon to Beaverbrook, December 1947
14. Private information
15. RA GVI PS 8644(5), 18 November 1947, Lascelles to Press Secretary; 13 February
1948, Lascelles to Secretary to Governor–General of Canada
16. Lambeth Palace Library, Fisher Papers, vol. 276, ff. 1–11