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1. Balliol College, Oxford, Nicolson Papers, Harold Nicolson to Vita Sackville–West, 8
June 1948, unpublished postscript
2. PRO WORK 19/1175, 13 November 1947
3. PRO WORK 19/1175, minute dated 1 October 1947
4. Loc. cit., correspondence and documents concerning the Clarence House cinema
5. John Parker in The Queen (1992), p. 21, states that the cost of refurbishing Clarence
House reached four times the original estimate of £50,000. This is refuted by the
evidence of documents in PRO WORK 19/1175, notably a minute of March 1951
giving details of the actual expenditure involved.
6. cited in Ziegler, op. cit., p. 458
7. Elizabeth Longford, Elizabeth R (1983), p. 123
8. John Colville, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955 (1985), pp. 625–
6
9. RA GVI PS 9091, Lascelles to James Chuter Ede, 21 August 1948; Lascelles to Chuter
Ede, 4 November 1948; Lascelles to George VI, ‘5.xii[xi] 1948’
10. RA GVI PS 9091(2), H. A. Strutt to Colville, 23 August 1948; Lascelles to George VI,
‘9.x. 1948’; Letters Patent of 9 November 1948; Edward Ford to Sir Terence Nugent,
31 December 1948; George V’s Letters Patent of 30 November 1917
11. Christopher Hussey, Clarence House (1949), p. 102
12. University of Reading, Astor Papers, MS 1416/1/4, Queen Elizabeth the Queen
Mother to Lady Astor, 19 October 1949
13. Ibid., MS 1416/1/3/16, Major Thomas Harvey to Lady Astor, n.d. [October 1949]
14. Ibid., Lady Astor to Mr and Mrs Bruce Gould, 8 November 1949
15. RAPP GVI 7606
16. Beaverbrook Papers, BBK H/152, John Gordon to Beaverbrook, 4 March 1952
17. Loc. cit., BBK H/136, Gordon to Beaverbrook, 6 January 1950
18. Interview with Noreen Taylor in the Spectator, 7 January 1995
19. Ziegler, op. cit., pp. 491–2
20 Ibid.
21. RA GVI PS 1231, Norman Brook to Attlee, 14 June 1950; Lascelles to Brook, 21 June
1950
7: Sovereign Lady
The hitherto unpublished facts and opinions in this and the following chapters have