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58.
   
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 378

59.
    
High Commissioner, Pretoria, to Resident Commissioners of Maseru, Mafeking and Mbabane, 5 December 1936, PRO, DO 119/1077

60.
     
Resident Commissioner, Maseru, to High Commissioner, Pretoria, 5 December 1936, PRO, DO 119/1077

61.
     
Resident Commissioner, Mbabane, to High Commissioner, Pretoria,
7
December 1936, PRO, DO 119/1077

62.
   
'The Empire',
Daily Herald,
4 December 1936

63.
   
Copy of statements by Reuters to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

64.
   
Telegram from Linlithgow to Zetland, 8 December 1936, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.15

65.
   
Report on meeting of ministers, 8 December 1936, PRO, CAB 127/155

66.
   
Telegram from Zetland to Linlithgow, 10 December 1936, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.15

67.
    
Telegram from Governor of Bengal to Linlithgow, 8 December 1936, No. 210, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.116

68.
   
Telegram from Governor of Madras to Linlithgow, 8 December 1936, No. 210, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.116

69.
  
Governor of Punjab to Linlithgow, 7 December 1936, No. 210, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.116

70.
    
Telegram from Governor of Assam to Linlithgow, 8 December 1936, No. 210, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.116

71.
    
Telegram from Governor of Central Provinces to Linlithgow, 9 December 1936, No. 214, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.116

72.
    
Fredoon Kabraji to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 5

73.
    
Mohammed Ally Khan to Piers Legh, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box r

74.
    
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

75.
    
Quoted in Philip Ziegler,
King Edward
VIII,
p. 137

76.
   
Ibid.

77.
    
Telegram to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

78.
   
Ibid.

79.
   
Copy of statements by Reuters to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10

II

'Our cock won't fight'

I.
   
Quoted in S. M. Cretney, 'The King and the King's Proctor', p. 600, note 112
z.
Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
p. 79

3.
  
Ibid.,
p. 80

4.
  
Martin S. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
Vol. 5, p. 820-21

5.
  
Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
p. 81

6.
  
Francis Meynell, abdication journal, Francis Hugo Meynell Papers, 112A-B

7.
  
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
pp. 401-2

8.
  
Quoted in John W. Wheeler-Bennett,
King George
VI,
p. 286

9.
  
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 402

10.
   
Nancy Dugdale diary, p. 71, Nancy Dugdale Papers

II.
    
Diary of Violet Milner, 8 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5

12.
    
Duchess of Windsor,
The Heart Has Its Reasons,
p. 272

13.
    
Ibid.

14.
   
Ibid.

15.
    
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 403

16.
   
Duchess of Windsor,
The Heart Has Its Reasons,
p. 273

17.
    
Tom Driberg,
Ruling Passions,
p. 106

18.
   
Entry for 8 December 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55

19.
   
'Constitutional crisis. Attitude of the British press', n.d. [December 1936], PRO, PREM 1/446

20.
   
Entry for 8 December 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55

21.
    
G. E. Buckle
et al., History of The Times,
p. 905

22.
   
John Evelyn Wrench,
Geoffrey Dawson and Our Times,
p. 336

23.
   
Diary of Anthony Heap, 8 December 1936, Acc. 2243/9/1

24.
   
Diary of Florence Turtle, 8 December 1936

25.
    
Letter from Cumberland to King Edward VIII, n December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9

26.
    
Mrs May Henderson to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6

27.
    
Doreen Kendall-Bradley to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6

28.
   
Elsa Staunton to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6

29.
   
F. Broadbent to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5

30.
    
Frances Horton to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 5

31.
    
Robert Spence Robertson to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5

32.
   
Kathleen Marshall to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8

33.
   
'Poor working woman' to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6

34.
   
R. A. Carrington to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6

35.
    
Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
p. 89

36.
   
Diary of Lucy Baldwin, 8 December 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers

37.
   
Diary of Ramsay MacDonald, 13 February 1936, PRO, PRO 30/69

38.
   
'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at 10 Downing Street', n.d. [late December 1936 or early 1937], CAB 127/157

39.
   
Violet Milner, diary entry for 9 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5

40.
    
Statement by Lord Brownlow, 9 December 1936, Brownlow Papers, BNLW, 4/4/9/4

41.
    
Telegram from Baldwin to leaders of the Dominions, 8 December 1936, PRO, HO 144/21070

42.
   
Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
p. 118

43.
   
'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at 10 Downing Street', n.d. [late December 1936 or early 1937I, CAB 127/157

44.
   
Duchess of Windsor,
The Heart Has Its Reasons,
p. 235

45.
   
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 404

46.
  
'Narrative of Mr Theodore Goddard, Solicitor of Mrs Simpson', July 19 51, Appendix C of Lord Beaverbrook,
The Abdication of King Edward
VIII,
pp. 116-20

47.
   
Duchess of Windsor,
The Heart Has Its Reasons,
pp. 274-7

48.
   
Diary of Nancy Dugdale, p. 75, Nancy Dugdale Papers

49.
   
Quoted in John W. Wheeler-Bennett,
King George
VI,
p. 286 (see also footnote b)

50.
   
Quoted in R. T. E. Latham,
The Law and the Commonwealth,
Appendix: 'The abdication of King Edward VIII in Commonwealth law and convention', p. 625

51.
    
Duke of Windsor,
A King's Story,
p. 404

52.
    
Diary of Lucy Baldwin, 9 December 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers

53.
   
Francis Hugo Meynell to Lady Meynell, 11 December 1936, Francis Hugo Meynell Papers, D859/2/11/2

54.
   
Diary of Nancy Dugdale, p. 76, Nancy Dugdale Papers

55.
   
Diary of Cecil Scott Turner, 10 December 1936, Acc/1385

56.
   
Diary of Edgar Procter, 10 December 1936, D222/13

57.
   
Vera Brittain,
Testament of Experience,
p. 162

58.
   
Notes by King Edward VIII and by Horace Wilson, n.d. [10 December 1936], PRO, PREM 1/455

59.
   
'Historic day in Parliament',
The Times,
11 December 1936

60.
   
Diary entry for 15 December 1936,
The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays,
pp. 279-80

61.
    
Diary of Nancy Dudgale, p. 80, Nancy Dugdale Papers

62.
    
Diary entry for 15 December 1936,
The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays,
pp. 279-80

63.
   
Philip Guedalla,
The Hundredth Year,
p. 289

64.
   
Diary entry for 15 December 1936,
The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays,
p. 279

65.
   
G. M. Young,
Stanley Baldwin,
p. 56

66.
   
Diary of Lucy Baldwin, 10 December 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers

67.
   
'M.P.', inside Westminster',
Tribune,
1 January 1937, quoted in Michael Foot,
Aneurin Bevan,
pp. 241-2

68.
   
Hansard,
10 December 1936

69.
  
Diary entry, 10 December 1936,
Parliament and Politics. . . The Headlam Diaries,
p. 103

70.
    
Mrs Baldwin to Nancy Dugdale, Z4 December 1936, diary of Nancy Dugdale, pp. 103-4, Nancy Dugdale Papers

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