Traitor King by Andrew Lownie

Author:Andrew Lownie [Lownie, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blink Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

1 Wallis later claimed in her memoirs that ‘the Bahamas police had no up-to-date detection equipment’, but there was such equipment at the RAF base. Heart, p. 354.

2 15 October 1943, FBI report 6273197.

3 Charlotte Gray, Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise (Collins, 2019), p. 176.

4 Duchess of Windsor to Aunt Bessie, 24 August 1943, quoted Michael Bloch, The Duke of Windsor’s War (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982), p. 308.

5 Lord Halifax to Colonial Office, 6 September 1943, FO954/ 33A/219, TNA.

6 William Bullitt diary, Mss A B937c1724, Filson Historical Society.

7 One of the reporters was Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason, on his first newspaper assignment. The Duke wrote to Oliver Stanley on 8 March 1944: ‘It was the lack of training of the local CID that caused me to call in the American Detectives . . . I purposefully absented myself and the Duchess from the Colony during the de Marigny trial to avoid adverse publicity.’ CO23/967/126, TNA.

8 Barker was discharged early on medical grounds and at Christmas 1952, high on drugs, was shot dead by his son, who it was said suspected his father of sleeping with his son’s wife, in what was described as a justifiable homicide.

9 W.L. Heape to Mr Beckett, 14 November 1943, CO 23/714, Bahamas Archives.

10 Duke of Windsor to Secretary of State, 25 November 1943, CO 23/714, Bahamas Archives.

11 Alfred de Marigny and Nancy divorced in 1949. She married several times, including the son of the German minister in Lisbon during the war, Oswald von Hoyningen-Huene.

12 His FBI file is 62-4138.

13 Dupuch article, Nassau Daily Tribune, 26 August 1974, reprinted 1983. Erskine-Lindop took his secrets to the grave, refusing to ever discuss it or leave an account in a bank vault after his death. Jennifer Kawar, his granddaughter, to the author, 8 March 2021.

14 30 May 1945, CO 23/785/7, Bahamian National Archives. The minute has been weeded from the UK version of the file in the TNA.

15 21 July 1942, RG 59/2682K/1940-1944, NARA.

16 Pat Wertheim to the author, 11 December 2020.

17 Memo, district cable censor, 10 December 1943, FO 115/4140, TNA.

18 A. Whitmore report, 23 December 1943, FO 115/4140, TNA. The file is marked: ‘Secret to be kept by secret registry.’

19 A. Whitmore report, 23 December 1943, FO 115/4140, TNA.

20 Memo, district cable censor, 10 December 1943, FO 115/4140, TNA.

21 A. Whitmore report, 23 December 1943, FO 115/4140, TNA. H.B. Griffiths was a banker.

22 D.H. Ladd, FBI memo on Harold Christie, 23 October 1943, Bob Cowan, Sir Harry Oakes, 1874–1943: An Accumulation of Notes (Highway Bookshop, 2000), pp. 230–1.

23 Parker, p. 231, and Marshall Houts, Who Murdered Sir Harry Oakes? (Robert Hale, 1976), p. 306.

24 ‘I Could Crack the Oakes Case Wide Open’, Inside Detective, October 1944.

25 31 May 1944, FBI file 62-73197.

26 6 August 1944, FBI file 62-73197.

27 FBI file 62-73197.

28 Owen, p. 257.

29 Washington Star, 3 October 1950.

30 Felix Cohen to J.K. Thompson, 17 November 1950, Harold Christie. FBI file 62-4138. Newell Kelly (1892–1976) was the manager of various properties owned by Oakes, and one of his trustees.

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