The royals - Kitty Kelley [281]
King Christian never wore the David Star and nothing is related for sure that he eventually threatened to do so….
Almost apologetically, he concluded his letter to me: “The story has been widely spread and used by many other Danish and foreign authors.”
CHAPTERS 2 AND 3
Documents regarding U.S. and U.K. relations received through the Freedom of Information Act; the Presidential Library of Franklin D. Roosevelt; U.S. Department of State documents regarding British royal family during the years 1940– 1945. Diplomatic cables indicated difficulties both countries experienced in dealing with the Windsors. One telegram dated July 20, 1940, from the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon to the Secretary of State:
Duke and duchess of Windsor are indiscreet and outspoken against British government. Consider their presence in the United States might be disturbing and confusing. They say that they intend remaining in the United States whether Churchill likes it or not and desire apparently to make propaganda for peace. If Department cancels their visas they could take clipper to Bermuda thence to Bahamas. Visas were given by Consulate General.
Interviews with Robert Lacey (April 18, 1995); Michael Thornton (November 13, 1993); Nicholas Haslam (March 30, 1994); Bevis Hillier (April 16, 1994); Fleur Cowles (November 8, 1993); Sue Townsend (April 19, 1994); Michael Bloch (April 14, 1994).
Books: Chronicle of the Royal Family by Ray Boston; The Royal House of Windsor by Elizabeth Longford; King George V by Kenneth Rose.
Articles: “Unhappy and Inglorious” by Richard Tomlinson, Independent on Sunday, June 12, 1994; Profile, Annabel Goldsmith, Daily Mail, August 4, 1994.
Re: Relationship of royal family with Duke and Duchess of Windsor:
“I remember when Philip Ziegler got Palace permission to write the official biography of King Edward VIII,” recalled an editor at William Collins Sons & Co. “The Queen had to approve the manuscript because she gave Ziegler access to papers in the archives at Windsor Castle. He submitted his manuscript to the Palace and the Queen made her comments in the margins. The manuscript was not returned to him. Instead, one of her equerries called and said, On page such-and-such, Her Majesty feels that the information might be better phrased, and on page such-and-such, the information can be deleted….
“At one point, the equerry laughed and said, ‘Her Majesty wrote in the margin here: “They did behave dreadfully, didn’t they?’ ”
The Queen shared a summary of the manuscript with her mother, who summoned the author to Clarence House after reading about her feud with the Duchess of Windsor. “The Queen Mother was then ninety years old,” recalled the editor. “Ziegler arrived and she said, ever so sweetly, ‘Whatever gave you the idea that I hated Mrs. Simpson? Why, I only met her once.’ As I say, she was ninety years old then and Ziegler was not prepared to argue with the Queen Mother revising history.”
CHAPTER 4
Documents: Public Records Kew in London; the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library for the President’s personal papers and the files of the White House social office dealing with the U.S. visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (correspondence November 1, 1995); British Library regarding the Marquess of Milford Haven’s pornography collection; unpublished diaries of the late Vice Admiral Harold Tom Baillie-Grohman.
Articles: Series by Philip Ziegler (February 19, 1996); Life, August 3, 1953; Time, October 28, 1957.
Interviews: Penelope Mortimer (May 9, 1995); Fiammetta Rocco (November 22, 24, 1993).
Books: The Queen by Ann Morrow; FDR—A Biography by Ted Morgan; Great Britons by Harold Oxbury (Oxford University Press, 1985); Little Gloria Happy at Last by Barbara Goldsmith.
CHAPTER 5
For the period 1945– 1947, including the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip, several sources were consulted.
Interviews: Larry Adler (May 24, November 22, 1993; January 10, 1995); Gant Gather on Philip’s courtship of Cobina