Nazi Princess (30 page)
Authors: Jim Wilson
1
Twice Wed in New York
1
PRO KV2/1696
2
Memorandum re Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, New York, 28 October 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
3
PRO J77/1933/483 & J77/2004/2811
4
S.J. Taylor,
The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere & the ‘Daily Mail’
, p.253
5
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 5): Hoover Institution Archives
2
Rothermere and Churchill
1
Obituary,
The Times
,
27 November 1940
2
Churchill Papers: Churchill College
3
S.J. Taylor,
The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere & the ‘Daily Mail’
, p.191
4
Obituary,
The Times
, 27 November 1940
3
The Golden Couple
1
PRO J77/1820 Marriage Certificate
2
Martin Pugh,
We Danced All Night: Britain Between the Wars
, p.352
3
National Motor Museum, Beaulieu
4
‘Court Circular’,
The Times
, 1920
5
Tom Clarke,
The Flying Lady
,
2001/2: National Motor Museum
6
Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club
7
S.J. Taylor,
The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere & the ‘Daily Mail’
, p.256
8
Ibid., p.253
9
Ibid., p.257
4
Throw of the Dice
1
Martha Schad,
Hitler’s Spy Princess
, p.214
2
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 5)
3
Ibid.
4
Ibid.
5
PRO KV2/1696
6
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 5)
7
FBI Memorandum to President Roosevelt, 24 October 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
5
Whose Go-between?
1
Memorandum re Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, New York, 28 October 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
2
PRO KV2/1696
3
Prince Franz Hohenlohe,
Steph: The Fabulous Princess
, p.37
4
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 5)
5
Ibid.
6
Ibid.
7
Ibid.
8
Daily Mail
,
21 June 1927
9
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 4)
10
PRO KV/1696
11
Hohenlohe,
Steph
, p.49
12
Letter from Prince Wilhelm to Lord Rothermere, 20 June 1934
6
A Friend in Berlin
1
Daily Mail
, 24
September 1930
2
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 2)
3
Ibid.
4
Ibid.
5
Ibid.
6
PRO KV/1696
7
Memorandum re Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, New York, 28 October 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
8
PRO KV2/1696
9
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 1)
10
Prince Franz Hohenlohe,
Steph: The Fabulous Princess
11
Daily Mail
, 10 July 1933
12
N.J. Crowson,
Fleet Street, Press Barons & Politics: The Journals of Collin Brooks
13
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 5)
14
Ibid. (Box 2)
15
Ibid. (Box 5)
16
Letter from Hitler to Lord Rothermere, 7 December 1933
17
Hohenlohe,
Steph
, p.68
7
Threat from the Sky
1
Viscount Rothermere,
Warnings and Predictions
, 1939
2
Ibid.
3
Daily Mail
,
7
November 1933
4
Stanley Baldwin speech, November 1932
5
Martin Pugh,
We Danced All Night: Britain Between the Wars
6
Daily Mail
,
3 April 1936
7
Rothermere,
Warnings
8
Enter the Blackshirts
1
S.J. Taylor,
The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere & the ‘Daily Mail’
, p.294
2
‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts’,
Daily Mail
, 8 January 1934
3
Christopher Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm: History of MI5
, p.192
4
Stephen Dorril,
‘Blackshirt’: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism
, pp.269–70, 285, 330, 337
5
Daily Mail
,
8 January 1934
6
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 4)
7
PRO KV3/53
8
Daily Mail
,
25 April 1934
9
PRO Home Office 144 20140/674216
10
Daily Mirror
, 22 January 1934
11
N.J. Crowson,
Fleet Street, Press Barons & Politics: The Journals of Collin Brooks
12
Ibid.
13
Daily Mail
,
8 June 1934
14
House of Commons Debate, 14 June 1934
15
Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
, p.192
16
Taylor,
The Great Outsiders
, p.284
17
Letter from Princess Stephanie to Lord Rothermere, 22 August 1934
18
PRO KV2/1696
19
Ibid.
9
Nazi Party Gold
1
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 4)
2
Letter from Hitler to Lord Rothermere, 3 May 1935
3
Letter from Hitler to Lord Rothermere, 19 December 1935
4
Letter from Rothermere to Hitler, 16 December 1936
5
Ibid.
6
Martha Schad,
Hitler’s Spy Princess
, p.40
7
Ibid.
8
Ibid., p.41
9
Letter from Princess Stephanie to Hitler, 12 January 1937
10
Martha Dodd,
My Years in Germany
, pp.223–4
11
Prince Franz Hohenlohe,
Steph: the Fabulous Princess
, p.107
12
Letter from Hitler to Lord Rothermere, 20 May 1937
13
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 5)
14
Ibid.
10
The Language of Butter
1
Daily Mail
,
7 October 1929
2
Daily Mail
, 24 September 1930
3
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 1)
4
W.S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries
, p.203
5
Christopher Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5
, pp.203–6
6
Letter from Lord Rothermere to Neville Chamberlain, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, 5 October 1934
7
Letter from Lord Rothermere to Lord Tyrrell, British ambassador to France, December 1933
8
Letter from Lord Rothermere to Lady Vansittart, 19 February 1934 (Sir Robert Vansittart was Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1930 to early 1938. He stood for rearmament and opposition to appeasement more strongly than any other Whitehall mandarin)
9
S.J. Taylor,
The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere & the ‘Daily Mail’
, p.301
10
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 1)
11
Ibid.
12
Ibid. (Box 2)
13
Telegram from Lord Rothermere to Churchill, 28 September 1938 (at the time of the Munich Agreement)
14
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 2)
15
Letter from Lord Rothermere to Churchill, 30 September 1938
16
Lord Lothian’s 29 January 1935 meeting with Hitler was arranged by Leopold von Hoesch, German ambassador in London
17
William E. Dodd and Martha Dodd (eds),
Ambassador Dodd’s Diary 1933–38
, p.411
18
PRO KV2/1696
19
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3)
20
PRO KV2/1696
21
Durham Chronicle
, 28 February 1936; Ian Kershaw,
Making Friends with Hitler
, p.141
22
Manchester Guardian
, 24 February 1936; Kershaw,
Making Friends with Hitler
, p.142
23
Letter from Lady Londonderry to Hitler, 21 February 1936; Kershaw,
Making Friends with Hitler
, p.145
24
Lord Londonderry’s conversation with Goering, 22 September 1937 – quoted in Marquess of Londonderry,
Ourselves and Germany
; Kershaw,
Making Friends with Hitler
, p.203
25
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3)
26
N.J. Crowson,
Fleet Street, Press Barons & Politics: The Journals of Collin Brooks
11
The Princess, the King and Wallis
1
PRO KV2/1696
2
Charles Higham,
Wallis: The Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor
(the author notes the source as Mrs Milton E. Miles, whose husband became an admiral in the US Navy. She was among navy wives in China and Hong Kong in 1925. ‘It was gossip among Navy wives in Hong Kong. It was an open scandal.’ At the time Wallis was in her first marriage to Earl Winfield Spencer, an officer in the US Navy.)
3
Henry Channon,
‘Chips’: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon
4
Higham,
Wallis
, p.81
5
Channon,
‘Chips’
6
Stephen Dorril,
Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism
7
The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart 1938–45
8
Martha Schad,
Hitler’s Spy Princess
, pp.56–7
9
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3)
10
Ian Kershaw,
Making Friends with Hitler
,
p.213
