• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

By Root 570 0

21 August 1925 and reproduced in full in Radio Times on 25 September. The BBC became the British Broadcasting Corporation only in 1926.

15 John Gore, King George V, London: John Murray.

16 Sarah Bradford, The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI 1895–1952, New York: St Martin’s Press, 1990, p.18.

17Ibid., p. 18.

18Ibid., p. 22.

19Ibid., p. 40.

20Ibid., p. 33.

21 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 42.

22 Bradford, op. cit., p. 48.

23 Lambert and Hamilton quoted in ibid., p. 57.

24Ibid., p. 70.

25 Robert Rhodes James, A Spirit Undaunted: The Political Role Of George VI, London: Little, Brown, 1998, p. 92.

26 Davidson papers quoted in ibid., p. 96.

27Pittsburgh Press, 1 December 1928.

28 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 207.

29Ibid., p. 208.

30Ibid.

31 Taylor Darbyshire, The Duke of York: an intimate & authoritative life-story of the second son of their majesties, the King and Queen by one who has had special facilities, and published with the approval of his Royal Highness, London: Hutchinson and Co., 1929, p. 90.

32 Michael Thornton, email correspondence with the author, July 2010.

33 Darbyshire, op.cit., p. 22.

34Scotsman, 2 December 1926.

35 Lionel Logue papers, 5 January 1927.

36 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 215.

37Ibid., p. 216.

38 Lionel Logue papers, 25 January 1927.

39Ibid., 14 February 1927.

40 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 218.

41 Reginald Pound, Harley Street, London: Michael Joseph, 1967, p. 157.

42 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 227.

43Ibid., p. 228.

44Ibid., p. 230.

45 Lionel Logue papers.

46 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 230.

47 Lionel Logue papers.

48Ibid.

49 Pound, op. cit., p. 157.

50Evening Standard (London), 12 June 1928; North-Eastern Daily Gazette, 13 July 1928; Evening News (London), 24 October 1928; Daily Sketch, 28 November 1928; Yorkshire Evening News, 4 December 1928.

51 Lionel Logue papers, 15 December 1928.

52 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 251.

53 This and the following extracts from the Logue–Duke correspondence in the Lionel Logue papers.

54 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 258.

55 Lionel Logue papers, 12 February 1929.

56Ibid., 16 and 23 May 1934.

57 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 263.

58 James Lees-Milne, The Enigmatic Edwardian: The Life of Reginald, 2nd Viscount Esher, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986, p. 301, quoted in David Loades, Princes of Wales: Royal Heirs in Waiting, Kew: The National Archives, 2008, p. 228.

59 Diana Vreeland, DV, New York: Knopf, 1984, quoted in Loades, op. cit., p. 230.

60 HRH The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, London: Cassell, 1951, p. 254–5.

61 Quoted in Christopher Warwick, Abdication, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986.

62 See Michael Bloch, The Reign and Abdication of King Edward VIII, London: Bantam Press, 1990.

63Time, 9 November 1936.

64 Philip Ziegler, ‘Churchill and the Monarchy, History Today, Vol. 43, 1 March 1993.

65 Lionel Logue papers, 28 October 1936.

66 William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography, London: Macmillan, 2009, p. 376.

67 Rhodes James, op. cit., p. 112.

68Ibid., p. 113.

69 Shawcross, op. cit., p. 380.

70 Lionel Logue papers, 14 December 1936.

71Time, 21 December 1936.

72 Lionel Logue papers.

73 Logue diary extracts: Lionel Logue papers.

74Sun, 18 January 1938.

75 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 379.

76Ibid., p. 383.

77Ibid., p. 390.

78Ibid., p. 392.

79Ibid., p. 394.

80Ibid.

81 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 405.

82 Shawcross, op. cit., p. 488.

83 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 406.

84Ibid., p. 429.

85Ibid., p. 449.

86Ibid., p. 553.

87 Lionel Logue papers, 29 December 1943.

88 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 608.

89Ibid., p. 610.

90 Interview with the author, June 2010.

91 Lionel Logue papers, 10 December 1948.

92Daily Express, 7 February 1952.

93 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 803.

94Times obituary, 13 April 1953; response by J.M. Wimbusch, The Times, 17 April 1953.