Royal Sisters, page 43
34 “two pipers marched”: Day, p. 133.
35 “carriage-loads of ...”: Mortimer, p. 21.
35 “Finally it was decided”: Airlie, p. 183.
35 “Before I left London” through “Lying wide awake”: Ibid., p. 185.
37 “I found crowded”: Clynes, Vol. II, p. 346.
37 “taken to a window”: Ibid.
37 “E. looking very well”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 221.
37 “I am very anxious”: Ibid.
38 “bowed to his wishes”: Ibid.
38 “Bertie and I have decided”: Ibid.
38 “I shall call her Bud”: Asquith, The Family Life of Her Majesty, p. 46.
38 “a particularly important”: Crawford, p. 11.
39 “clung on to Margaret”: Ibid.
39 “I was quite enchanted”: Ibid.
40 “This is Miss”: Ibid.
Chapter 4
41 “I’m three”: Crawford, p. 15.
41 “If I am ever Queen” through “whinnying noises”: Ibid., p. 17.
42 “gentled, patted”: Ibid.
42 “never cared a fig”: Ibid., p. 18.
42 “She’s the spit”: Edwards, p. 313.
43 “a considerable talent”: private interview.
43 “very clever”: Ibid.
43 “Get on with it”: Ibid.
43 “Margaret’s imagination”: Crawford, p. 26.
45 “still upheld”: Ibid.
45 “David was heading”: private interview.
45 “a neat, hard-working”: Ibid.
46 “rise to the occasion”: private interview
46 “He came and left”: Mortimer, p. 72.
46 “He is neurotic”: Longford, Royal Anecdotes, p. 352.
46 “In his study”: Ibid.
46 “But it was”: Ibid.
47 “with pine-wood furniture”: Crawford, p. 31.
47 “and very smelly oil stoves”: Ibid.
47 “three basins in a line”: Ibid.
47 “never again speak”: Edwards, p. 342.
48 “distinguished by”: A. Lascelles, p. 3.
49 “My brothers were secure”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 262.
49 “Mrs. Simpson is bejeweled”: H. Nicolson, Diaries, 1930–1939, p. 238.
50 “It will do us good”: Duke of Windsor, p. 264.
50 “My own Sweetheart”: Bloch, Wallis and Edward, p. 148.
51 “in a state of desolation”: Edwards, p. 344.
51 “It was never in my scheme of things”: Ibid.
51 “the King was propped up”: Ibid.
52 “ ‘God save the King’ ”: Ibid.
52 “I could not bring myself”: Duke of Windsor, p. 266.
52 “realized”: Duchess of Windsor, p. 219.
52 “It’s all over”: private interview.
52 “striding down the passage”: Ibid.
52 “Money, and the things”: Ibid.
53 “solemn, grave and dignified”: Channon, p. 104.
53 “Margaret [at five]”: Crawford, p. 32.
53 “Oh, Crawfie,”: Ibid.
53 “boyish, sad and tired”: Channon, p. 104.
53 “The Duke wanted her to see”: Crawford, p. 32.
53 “She was so young”: Crawford: Ibid.
53 “Uncle David was there”: Ibid.
Chapter 5
55 “formidable figure”: Warwick, Princess Margaret, p. 17.
55 “We always felt that we”: Ibid.
55 “a gruff, shadowy figure”: Ibid.
55 “Mindless chatter”: Edwards, p. 356.
56 “troop through the British Museum”: Ibid., p. 357.
56 “just as important”: Ibid.
56 “gay, bouncing way” through “... beast!”: Crawford, p. 33.
56 “I never won”: Warwick, p. 17.
56 “wound her arms around his neck”: Crawford, p. 33.
57 “into the whole question”: Ibid.
58 “that instead of being on business”: court record.
59 “too hot to write”: Bloch, Wallis and Edward, p. 190.
59 “I must really”: Ibid.
60 “Why do you say”: Ibid.
60 “the shock was so great”: A. Lascelles, p. 200.
60 “It will happen quite soon”: Ibid.
61 “as if nothing was happening”: Ibid.
61 “What was at stake”: Ibid.
61 “Really! This might be Rumania!”: Pope-Hennessy, p. 557.
61 “to withdraw from a situation”: Bloch, Secret File, p. 11.
61 “Can’t you understand”: private interview.
61 “He’s mad ...”: Ibid.
61 “no taste or ambition”: Edwards, p. 366.
62 “10 minutes”: Ibid.
62 “pacing up and down”: Ibid.
62 “I could see that nothing”: Ibid., p. 367.
62 “I went to see”: Ibid.
62 “Bertie arrived”: Ibid.
63 “status and rights” Bloch, Secret File, p. 72.
63 “Best love”: Ibid.
64 “Lilibet’s brilliant blue eyes”: Asquith, Haply I May Remember, p. 201.
64 “We must take what is coming to us”: Crawford, p. 39.
64 “You mean forever”: Ibid.
65 “in every place”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 289
Chapter 6
66 “there were those interminable”: Crawford, p. 41.
67 “the best part of the palace”: Ibid.
67 “Lilibet, covered with green slime”: Ibid., p. 42.
67 “boisterous pursuits”: Duke of Windsor, A Family Portrait, p. 5.
67 “a free-for-all playground”: Ibid.
68 “with their gilded woodwork”: Ibid.
68 “to save the walk”: Ibid.
68 “to come to terms with”: Duff Cooper, p. 191.
68 “there was only one way”: Ibid.
68 “We were warned by the Comptroller’s”: Diana Cooper, p. 427.
68 “Communicating with this bower”: Ibid.
69 “to travel the icy passages”: Crawford, p. 70.
70 “the iron tongue of midnight” through paragraph: Diana Cooper, p. 429.
70 “It was all very different”: Channon, p. 119.
70 “Cigarette in hand”: Hartnell, Silver and Gold, p. 121.
71 “Dickie, this is absolutely terrible”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 293.
71 “even into the ordinary everyday”: Ibid.
72 “Listen well”: private interview.
72 “A wave of idle and malicious gossip”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 294.
72 “succeeded in getting through”: Ibid.
72 “a lengthy and stormy debate”: Mortimer, p. 48.
72 “The old Hall was warmed”: Channon, p. 122.
73 “had seen [Bertie] through the eyes”: Ziegler, p. 195.
74 “stateless, nameless and not far from”: Ibid.
75 “the King sat as host in the ballroom”: Ibid.
75 “I do hope she won’t disgrace us all”: Crawford, p. 44.
75 “by the band”: Ibid.
75 “there was a great deal”: Ibid.
76 “nerve-racking”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 312.
76 “Sleep was impossible”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 311.
76 “knee breeches and a kind of scarlet”: Harewood, p. 18.
76 “ablaze with jewels”: Channon, p. 124.
76 “rose up with a flash”: Time, May 24, 1937.
77 “I bowed to Mama”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 313.
77 “trying to attach it”: Ibid.
77 “after leaving”: Ibid.
77 “when Mummie was crowned”: Royal Papers Exhibition, March, 1990.
77 “the shaft of sunlight”: Channon, p. 125.
78 “that the Crown was heavy”: Ibid.
78 “[Margaret] was wonderful”: Crawford, p. 45.
78 “What struck me”: Royal Papers Exhibition, March, 1990.
78 “We are not supposed to be human”: Crawford, p. 45.
79 “it would be a grave mistake”: Bloch, Secret File, p. 50.
79 “there might be legal objections”: Ibid., p. 55.
79 “give an undertaking”: Ibid., p. 60.
79 “a very special case”: private collection.
80 “in the money line”: Ibid.
80 “This would be a good moment”: Ibid.
80 “For a brief moment”: Ibid.
80 “And if you do see someone”: Crawford, p. 53.
81 “too methodical”: Ibid.
81 “I have my handkerchief”: Edwards, p. 384.
81 “Her eyes looked”: Life, June 19, 1939.
81 “The event must hold”: London Times, June 12, 1939.
82 “plunged immediately into”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 461.
Chapter 7
83 “muffled in dust sheets”: Crawford, p. 69.
83 “By the time we’ve”: Ibid.
84 “Alah!” through “at once:” Ibid.
84–86 “a tall distinguished” and all short quotes through “hidden in them”: Ibid., p. 72.
87 “I don’t think Dookie”: Sheridan, From Cabbages to Kings, p. 96.
87 “Immediately the car” through “ordinary family:” Ibid.
88 “[The King] was carrying a corgi”: Lacey, God Bless Her, p. 213.
88 “and a supply of glossy magazines”: Ibid., p. 214.
88 “The day was very cloudy.”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 468.
89 “a Sovereign standing”: Ibid., p. 467.
89 “the pusillanimous handling of the war”: Channon, p. 242.
89 “crazy week”: Ibid., p. 252.
89 “in a bullet-proof vehicle”: Laird, Queen Elizabeth, p. 213.
90 “Papa, do you sing”: Warwick, Princess Margaret, p. 286.
90 “Meg”: Ibid.
90 “The King had gone downstairs”: Laird, p. 215.
91 “We rode from school”: private interview.
91 “I think both Princesses”: Ibid.
91 “I, for one”: Ibid.
92 “much for sleeping under canvas”: Crawford, p. 84.
93 “I knew the United States”: W. Churchill, Vol. II, p. 334.
93 “furtive side-glances” through “deaf person”: Beaton, Memoirs of the Forties, p. 87.
94 “the king, queen and”: Lash, p. 660.
94 “As far as I”: Boothroyd p. 109.
95 “a fair-haired boy, rather like”: Crawford, p. 59.
95 “Most of the boys”: Ibid., p. 60.
96 “gazed at him”: Ibid.
Chapter 8
97 “He is extraordinarily handsome”: Channon, p. 283.
97 “while amused”: Ibid.
98 “severe grey gowns”: Alexandra, Prince Philip, p. 16.
98 “philander[ed]”: Ibid.
100 “not only out of respect”: Ibid., p. 50.
100 “regardless of admonitions”: Ibid.
101 “Fleet tactical orders”: Lee, p. 276.
101 “gay, debonair”: Alexandra, pp. 79–83.
101 “Philip would come” through “invitations”: Ibid.
102 “a dazzling couple”: Channon, p. 203.
102 “Men and women”: Duchess of Marlborough, p. 60.
103 “very few people”: Cordêt, p. 62.
103 “Nothing stopped”: Ibid.
103 “After her [three]”: Ibid.
104 “divinely tall”: Alexandra, p. 80.
104 “He wanted more than anything”: private interview.
104 “There is a story”: Ibid.
104 “Also, he was”: Ibid.
104 “He had mixed emotions”: Ibid.
105 “by an almost aggressively”: Ibid.
105 “Is it part of the uniform”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 737.
106 “serene, magnetic”: Beaton, Royal Portraits, p. 92.
106 “the effect of the dazzling”: Ibid.
106 “Both in the audience”: Sheridan, From Cabbages to Kings, p. 115.
106 “I remember in particular”: Ibid.
106 “When his superior officer”: Ibid.
107 “I don’t think Princess Margaret”: Sheridan, p. 119.
107 “We settled ourselves to be frightened”: Liversidge, p. 93.
Chapter 9
109 “Brave Americans”: Bernard De Voto, “The Easy Chair,” Harper’s, August 1943.
109 “those beastly V2’s”: Beaton, Memoirs of the Forties, p. 9.
109 “a spell of the glitter”: Ibid.
111 “taken to the servants”: Beaton, Royal Portraits, pp. 89–90.
111 “magnificently ornate”: Ibid.
112 “When the Queen is present”: Ibid.
112 “We [the Queen and myself]”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 589
114 “Death”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 111.
114 “My wound prevented me”: Ibid.
114 “standing in the doorway”: Daily Mail, October 1956.
115 “invalided to a ground job”: Townsend, p. 119.
115 “If he didn’t find”: Ibid.
115 “Men like my father”: Townsend, p. 14.
115 “She would have us down”: Ibid.
116 “a rather naughty boy”: Ibid.
116 “watching there”: Ibid., p. 23.
119 “I needed an additional” through “eyes upon her”: Ibid., p. 167.
120 “How could I create Lilibet”: Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 591–592.
120 “The Changing of the Guard”: Ibid.
120 “I was struck by how very much Lilibet”: Edwards, p. 450.
120 “compliments, innuendos”: private interview.
120 “within the court”: Pearson, The Selling of the Royal Family, p. 101.
121 “I remember one evening”: Corbitt, p. 179.
121 “The fascination of Philip”: Alexandra, Prince Philip, p. 75.
122 “Margaret was much too young”: Crawford, p. 88.
123 “Margaret’s envy”: Ibid., p. 89.
123 “I was born too late”: Ibid.
123 “no two sisters”: Airlie, p. 244.
123 “so outrageously amusing”: Ibid.
124–126 “completely wet” through “nurtured”: Townsend.
126 “Townsend, off duty”: Barrymaine, p. 65.
128 “The King in Naval”: Channon, p. 411.
128 “We want the king”: Beaton, Memoirs of the Forties, p. 48.
Chapter 10
130 “The straight clean lines”: Crawford, p. 137.
130 “pottering through”: Ibid.
131 “large round table”: Ibid.
131 “that all three enjoyed”: Judd, p. 110.
132 “She was a very”: private interview.
132 “were a spirited”: private interview.
133 “Another time”: Alexandra, Prince Philip, p. 98.
133 “I only hope”: Ibid.
134 “women flung themselves”: Ibid., p. 90.
134 “he used to write”: Ibid.
134 “Just before dawn”: Ibid.
134 “surprisingly threadbare”: Dean, p.
135 “looked like a rag bag”: Morton, p. 27.
135 “Philip and his friend”: Ibid.
135 “suits motheaten”: Alexandra, p. 96.
135 “He took it philosophically”: Ibid.
135 “far too small for him”: Cordêt, p. 94.
135 “After tea”: Ibid.
136 “terrific urge” through “to the wedding”: Ibid., pp. 95–98.
137 “If there is not to be an engagement”: Crawford, p. 100.
137 “deeply and passionately” through “... your love affair!”: Ibid.
137 “he dealt directly with”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 165.
138 “Nothing escaped”: Ibid.
139 “and more particularly on stalking”: Ibid., p. 158.
139 “it was such an honour”: Airlie, p. 19
140 “The King would never discuss”: private interview.
140 “a degree of rivalry”: Ibid.
140 “fighting off the swarming flies”: Alexandra, p. 101.
149 “dinner over”: Townsend, p. 159.
150 “a block away”: Alexander, p. 102.
Chapter 11
152 “willingly or coerced”: private interview.
153 “spectacular theft”: Bloch, Secret File, p. 234.
153 “like going into another world”: Alexandra, For a King’s Love, pp. 140–144.
154 “The lift was small” through “... one day be Queen”: Ibid.
154 “When I come back”: Airlie, p. 226.
154 “A child can be seen” : Alexandra, For a King’s Love, p. 145.
155 “The King was in uniform”: Crawford, p. 103.
155 “We talked at length”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 169.
160 “in the great empty spaces”: Morrah, The South African Tour, p. 42.
160 “such a display of diamonds”: Ibid., p. 44.
160 “at times the heat and the worries”: Ibid., p. 118.
160 “I’d like to shoot them all”: Ibid.
161 “along the sand or across the”: Townsend, p. 175.
162 “of unabated”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 594.
162 “I hope that the King”: Ibid.
162 “that [once] it drew to a halt”: Cameron, p. 328.
162 “he picked up that damned”: Ibid., p. 175.
163 “have liked a boy like”: private interview.
163 “hundreds of thousands of sweating”: Townsend, p. 177.
164 “[The King]” through “... tired”: Ibid., p. 178.
164 “A sullen dawn”: Shew, p. 60.
164 “vibrant with emotion”: private interview.
165 “in her white tulle”: Ibid.
165 “We all knew”: private interview.
166 “Now that our visit”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 597.
Chapter 12
167 “never with a surplus”: Cathcart, Her Majesty, p. 164.
167 “danced for sheer joy”: Alexandra, Prince Philip, p. 105.
167 “Everything has been meandering”: private interview.
167 “Aunt Elizabeth reminded the King”: Alexandra, p. 106.
168 “Somewhere back up that knotted”: Boothroyd, pp. 38–39.
168 “not madly in favour”: Ibid.
169 “quietly in his uncle’s shadow ... taken in”: Ibid.
169 “evident Englishness”: Lacey, Majesty, p. 160.
