The Queen Mother (184 page)

  
23
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 420

  
24
Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy
, pp. 376–7

  
25
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 15 September 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
26
Princess Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 11 September 1939, RA QEII/OUT/BUTHLAY

  
27
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  
28
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 26 September 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/113

  
29
Marion Crawford to Queen Elizabeth, 23 October 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD; Princess Elizabeth to Georgina Guérin, 30 December 1939, RA QEII/OUT/GUERIN/13

  
30
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 26 September 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/113

  
31
Queen Elizabeth to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 2 October 1939, photocopy enclosed with letter from Prince Charles to Queen Elizabeth, 1 September 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
32
Professor Harold Laski to Lord Wigram, 12 September 1939, and to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 19 September 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/03959/2

  
33
Lord Tweedsmuir to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 2 October 1939 (extract), Lord Tweedsmuir to King George VI, 10 October 1939 (extract), RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/03959/1A

  
34
Lord Lothian to Sir Alan Lascelles, 25 September 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/03959/1B

  
35
Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 30 November 1932, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  
36
Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 6 November 1939, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 199–200

  
37
Queen Elizabeth’s broadcast, 11 November 1939, RA QEQMH/PS/SPE

  
38
Most Rev. Cosmo Lang to Queen Elizabeth, 11 November 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Lang

  
39
Letters to Queen Elizabeth, November 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/GEN, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL; Lord Wigram to Queen Elizabeth, 12 November 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
40
Anonymous letter to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [12 November 1939], RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/04298

  
41
Queen Elizabeth to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 6 December 1939, RA QEQM/OUT/PAUY

  
42
Queen Elizabeth to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 2 October 1939, photocopy enclosed with letter from Prince Charles to Queen Elizabeth, 1 September 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
43
Ibid.

  
44
Vickers, p. 206

  
45
Augustus John to Maud (Mollie) Cazalet, 23 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PIC

  
46
Mollie Cazalet to Queen Elizabeth, 16 December 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
47
Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 10 July 1947, Sitwell Papers

  
48
Susan Owens,
Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
, Royal Collection Publications, 2005, pp. 47–8

  
49
Gerald Kelly to Queen Elizabeth, 18 December 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
50
Rose,
Kings, Queens and Courtiers
, p. 151

  
51
Channon,
Diaries
, p. 276

  
52
Queen Elizabeth to Lord Halifax, 9 December 1939, Hickleton Papers, A2/278/26A 2

  
53
Queen Elizabeth to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 6 December 1939, RA QEQM/OUT/PAUY

  
54
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 428; Colonel Hon. Piers Legh to Queen Elizabeth, 11 December 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/OFF

  
55
Extract from a letter to Mollie Cazalet from a cousin in the British Expeditionary Force, enclosed with letter from Mollie Cazalet to Queen Elizabeth, 16 December 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
56
Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 428–9

  
57
Ibid., pp. 429–30

  
58
Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 6 January 1940, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  
59
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 27 December 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/116

  
60
King George VI, diary, 20 January 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

  
61
King George VI, diary, 24 January 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

  
62
Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 26 February 1940, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  
63
William Wordsworth,
The Excursion
, 1814, Book IV, lines in Queen Elizabeth’s hand (original in possession of Winston Churchill, grandson of Sir Winston Churchill); Sir Martin Gilliat to Kenneth Rose, 22 May 1974, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1974/Rose

  
64
Sir Alexander Hardinge to Queen Elizabeth, 15 February 1940; Sir Walter Elliot to Queen Elizabeth, 15 February 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/OFF; Queen Elizabeth to Sir Walter Elliot, 17 February 1940, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC

  
65
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 1 April 1940, Hon. Lady Murray Papers

  
66
Queen Elizabeth to Lord Halifax, 1 April 1940, Hickleton Papers, A2/278/26A 4; Lord Halifax to Queen Elizabeth, 1 April 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
67
Queen Elizabeth’s speech to YWCA, 13 April 1940, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1940

  
68
Sir Alexander Hardinge, memorandum, 26 April 1939, Hon. Lady Murray Papers

  
69
Queen Elizabeth to King George VI, 10 October 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/76

  
70
Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 439–43

  
71
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 642

  
72
King George VI, diary, 10 May 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

  
73
Queen Elizabeth to Neville Chamberlain, 17 May 1940, BUA NCI/23/81A

  
74
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  
75
Queen Mary to King George VI, 12 May 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  
76
King George VI, diary, 11 May 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

  
77
John Keegan,
Churchill
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002, pp. 123–4

  
78
King George VI, diary, 13 May 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

  
79
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 450

  
80
Ibid., pp. 451–2

  
81
Princess Juliana of the Netherlands to Queen Elizabeth, 20 June 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/FORRF

  
82
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  
83
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 24 July 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/131

  
84
Laird, p. 246

  
85
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 647

  
86
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 29 May 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
87
Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 1 June 1940, Penn Papers

  
88
Leeming notes

  
89
Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill
, vol. VI, William Heinemann, 1983, pp. 418–21

  
90
Keegan, p. 125

  
91
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 651

  
92
King George VI, diary, 12 June 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

  
93
Queen Elizabeth’s speech to the Women of France, 14 June 1940, RA QEQMH/PS/SPE

  
94
Andre Maurois,
Mémoires
, Flammarion, Paris, 1970, pp. 301–2

  
95
Andre Maurois to Queen Elizabeth, 26 June 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
96
Anthony Eden to Queen Elizabeth, 24 January 1941, RA QEQM/PRIV/OFF

  
97
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 661

  
98
Eleanor Roosevelt to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [early June 1940], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
99
Swift, pp. 156–7

100
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 460

101
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 663

102
Ibid., pp. 363–4

103
Mollie Panter-Downes,
London War Notes 1939–1945
, ed. William Shawn, Longman, 1972, p. 70

104
King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/138

105
Malcolm Macdonald to Queen Elizabeth, 27 December 1977, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

106
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 447

107
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

108
Angus Calder,
The People’s War: Britain 1939–1945
, Pimlico, 1992, pp. 120–2

109
Owen Morshead to Queen Mary, 10 June 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC48/914

110
Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy
, p. 457

111
Harold Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters: 1939–1945
, ed. Nigel Nicolson, Collins, 1967, p. 100

112
Ibid.

113
King George VI, diary, 18 June 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

114
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 464

115
Ibid.

116
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

117
Laird, pp. 249–50

118
Eugene Keryell to Lady Grigg, 2 August 1940, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1940/41

119
Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, p. 423

120
Ibid., p. 434

121
King George VI to Queen Mary, 7 July 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/130

122
Queen Mary to King George VI, 8 July 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

123
Letters from members of the public to Queen Elizabeth, September 1939 and undated, CAC GLLD/21/7A/3–6, 8

124
Notes by Queen Elizabeth, 6 July 1940 (copy), enclosed with letter from Sir Alexander Hardinge to Lord Lloyd, CAC GLLD/21/7A/1. Lord Lloyd burned the original handwritten memorandum from the Queen, but kept a typed copy which remains in the Lloyd Papers at the Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge

125
Sir Alexander Hardinge to Queen Elizabeth, 7 July 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/OFF

126
Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, pp. 428–33

127
Rhodes James, p. 219

128
Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, p. 435

129
King George VI to Queen Mary, 11 September 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/134

130
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 September 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/135

131
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 September 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/135

132
Betty Spencer Shew,
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
, 1955, p. 76, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 469

133
King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/138

134
Myrtle Farquharson to Queen Elizabeth, 26 September 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

135
Bradford,
George VI
, p. 430

136
Lord Woolton, diary, 11 October 1940, Bodleian Library, MS Woolton 2

137
Ibid.

138
Mrs Walter Elliot to Lettice Bowlby, 30 October 1940, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1940/53

139
Edna Healey,
The Queen’s House
, Michael Joseph, 1997, p. 306

140
Hartnell, pp. 101–2

141
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 467

142
Hartnell, pp. 101–2

143
King George VI to Queen Mary, 11 September 1940 RA QM/PRIV/CC12/134

144
Owen Morshead, notes, 12 November 1940, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2

145
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

146
Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 25 October 1940, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

147
Owen Morshead, notes, 12 November 1940, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2

148
Anne Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth, 16 October [1940], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

149
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 683

150
Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 25 October 1940, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

151
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/139

152
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 31 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/141

153
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/139

154
Laird, p. 253

155
Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 25 October 1940, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

156
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

157
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 31 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/141

158
Ibid.

159
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 7 January 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/147

160
Marion Crawford to Queen Mary, 23 February 1941, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 67–9

161
King George VI, diary, 21–22 December 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

162
Queen Elizabeth to George Duke of Kent, 14 January 1941, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC

163
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 7 January 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/147

164
Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 21 January 1941, CAC CHAR/20/29A/38

165
King George VI, diary, ‘Retrospect of 1940’, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY

166
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 7 January 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/147

167
Roberts,
History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900
, p. 286

168
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 7 January 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/147

169
Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. Elizabeth Elphinstone, 7 February 1941, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

170
Queen Elizabeth to George, Duke of Kent, 14 January 1941, RA QEQM/OUT/GDK

171
Keegan, p. 131

172
President Roosevelt to King George VI (copy), 22 November 1940, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/243/34

173
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 4 February 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/151