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1. Townsend, op. cit., p. 189
2. The attribution of this painting has been questioned but most experts believe it to be
at least in part by Leonardo.
3. Townsend, op. cit., pp. 116–17
4. Interview with Group Captain Peter Townsend, 21 May 1993
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1. PRO CAB 128/26 PART 1 CC(54), 8th Conclusions, Item 11, 10 February 1954; CAB
129/65 C(54)48, 8 February 1954, and (54)49, 9 February 1954
2. PRO DO 35/5141, UK High Commissioner in New Zealand to Secretary of State for
Commonwealth Relations, 25 February 1954, and DO 35/5139, UK High
Commissioner in Australia to same, 9 April 1954
3. cited in Longford, op. cit., p. 169
4. RA GVI 332/16
5. RA GVI 332/17, Lascelles to Duff Cooper, 4 July 1938
6. RA GVI 332/62, 29/5/51
7. RA GVI 332/68, Mountbatten to First Sea Lord, 1 June 1951
8. cited in Andrew Morton, The Royal Yacht Britannia (1984), pp. 32–3
9. cited in Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. VIII: 1945–65, Never Despair (1988),
p. 976
10. Colville, op. cit., p. 654
11. Gilbert, op. cit., p. 823
12. Ibid., p. 849
13. Ibid., p. 852
14. Ibid., p. 897
15. Ibid., p. 1117
16. Ibid., p. 1124
17. Ibid., p. 1126–7
18. Interview with Professor David Dilks, 15 November 1994
19. cited in Robert Rhodes James, Anthony Eden (1986), pp. 600–1
20. Harold Macmillan, Riding the Storm 1956–1959 (1971), p. 182
21. John Grigg, The Monarchy Revisited, W. H. Smith’s Contemporary Papers No. 9
(1992), p. 4