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A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and the Royal Household
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The historically interesting Great War ‘Salonika’ M.C. group of six awarded to Major E. G. M. Phillips, Black Watch, Comptroller to H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor throughout the Second World War, when he aided the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s evacuation from France in June 1940, met Churchill at Downing Street, caused a stir by using a Royal postcard to write to a friend in Fascist Italy, and reported the murder of Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas
Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. E. G. M. Phillips. R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. G. M. Phillips.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (6) £1600-2000
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M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.
Edwin Gray Moneylaws Phillips was born at Kirklington, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, on 11 October 1884, and was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. Commissioned into the Black Watch in December 1914, he served with the 10th Battalion in France and Salonika during the Great War. Promoted Lieutenant on 7 June 1916, he commanded twenty-five men of “A” Company in a raid on P5, Salonika, on 9 October 1916, and later led them on an attack at lake Dorian, Salonika, on 8 May 1917, actions which contributed towards the award of his Military Cross. Promoted Captain on 1 July 1917, he was appointed Adjutant on 15 October 1917 and was presented with his Military Cross by the General Officer Commanding Sir George Milne at Karsoulie on 20 March 1918. He returned to France with his Battalion in July 1918 and was transferred to the 8th Battalion in October 1918. Between the Wars he became well known to the Prince of Wales (later Duke of Windsor), and was sometime Comptroller to the Duke of Sutherland. Granted a Regular Army Emergency Commission as a Second Lieutenant on 18 October 1939, he was appointed by the Palace to serve as Aide and Comptroller to H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor who, though serving with the British Military Mission in France, remained firmly ‘on the outside’ as far as the Establishment was concerned.
Comptroller to the Duke of Windsor
‘Major Gray Phillips, impeccably dressed in the uniform of the Black Watch, hesitated a third time in front of the royal bedroom. He was the Duke's equerry; and his friendship and unofficial service reached back past the frustrated beginnings of World War Two, through the humiliations of the post abdication years, into the senselessly precipitated abdication crisis itself, the truncated ten-month reign as King and the faded brilliance of the Prince of Wales era. At seven in the morning, Phillips knew that His Royal Highness and the Duchess would still be sound asleep. Never early risers, they would resent being disturbed regardless of the provocation, even though the dazzling Caribbean sun was already far along in its orbit, and a cooling breeze following the night's violent storm had cleared air and sky and sea to blend all into a startling blue. Major Phillips reluctantly brought his clenched fist against the bedroom door, first cautiously and then with sufficient strength to be heard. The muted grumblings from behind the door came soon; and some minutes after the royal aide identified himself, the Duke, attired in white silk robe, the Royal British Coat of Arms embroidered in azure, red, silver and gold on the pocket, his brownish hair in total disarray, opened the door.’ (The Duke of Windsor’s War by Michael Bloch refers). The news which prompted Gray Phillips to wake his royal master at Government House, Nassau, on the morning of 8 July 1943 was the discovery of the battered and charred body of the Bahamas' number one citizen, Sir Harry Oakes, reputedly the richest Baronet in the British Empire. The Duke of Windsor was seized with the thought that he must take principal charge of the investigation. On this occasion, as on others during his wartime exile, he was to prove a loose cannon. In order to try and give himself time to think he ordered Phillips to call the local radio station and Sir Etienne Dupuch, publisher of the Nassan Tribune, at home, and slap an embargo on the news. The news leaked out anyhow. Next, he called in the Miami Police, believing the local constabulary was entirely unequal to such a crisis. Thirdly, and worst of all, he made up his mind who had committed the murder before the investigation began, pointing the finger at Oakes' son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny, who had been less than respectful towards the Royal Governor. The jury acquitted De Marigny without hesitation. The murder of Sir Harry Oakes remains a mystery despite a plethora of theories, some convincing, some grotesque. What remains is the less than impressive role played by the Duke. It was one of several witnessed first hand by Major Gray Phillips as Comptroller to His Royal Highness.
Gray Phillips was six and a half feet tall and had beautiful manners. He was something of a frustrated aesthete and intellectual, and had been a brilliant classical scholar at Eton. He was charming, resourceful, witty, and kind; everyone liked him. A bachelor with a strong artistic streak, crucially he got on marvellously well with the Duchess of Windsor. In late May 1940 as the German armies swept across France, Gray Phillips and “Fruity" Metcalfe were in Paris holding the fort at the Duke's residence in the Boulevard Suchet, while their royal master, having stripped the house of all articles of value including all the cars, had attached himself to the French Command on the Cote d'Azur. Metcalfe, the Duke's trusted friend for twenty years, was disgusted and left for England. Gray Phillips complained of nothing except a faltering electricity supply and that 'no ice could be found for his drink'. When the Germans burst through the Weygrand Line in early June, he set out on a long and difficult journey to rejoin the Duke and Duchess at La Cröe in Antibes which he reached 'after four terrible days hitch-hiking from Angers'. 'As he fell upon food and drink', he recounted 'the amazing chaos he had seen and the total collapse of French resistance'. With the Germans barely 200 miles away to the north, the Duke asked members of the British Embassy, encamped at Bordeaux, if he and the Duchess were to be evacuated by the Royal Navy, but, in spite of the dramatic consequences of the Duke falling into Nazi hands, no vessel could be spared. On the 18th, British officials remaining in France agreed it was definitely time the Duke left and in the continuing absence of any ships, it was decided that the Windsors, together with Gray Phillips, an equerry, Captain Wood, and his wife, Rosa, should join two members of the British Consulate at Nice who were about to evacuate their posts and cross into Spain. However the Consuls could not obtain visas for them and there was a risk that they might not be admitted or that once admitted the Duke, Phillips and Wood might be arrested as members of the British forces on neutral soil. On the 19th, the Duchess' birthday, the party reached Perpignan, where Gray Phillips remained at an hotel with the Duchess and Rosa Wood, while the Duke and Wood went on to obtain visas. During the afternoon, however, Phillips, the Duchess, and Rosa Wood were evicted when the hotel was suddenly requisitioned by the French Government which planned to move there in the event of the armistice talks breaking down. Meanwhile the Duke was informed that only he and the Duchess would be given visas. The Duke declared that it was to be all or none of them, and f...
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Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. E. G. M. Phillips. R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. G. M. Phillips.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (6) £1600-2000
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M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.
Edwin Gray Moneylaws Phillips was born at Kirklington, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, on 11 October 1884, and was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. Commissioned into the Black Watch in December 1914, he served with the 10th Battalion in France and Salonika during the Great War. Promoted Lieutenant on 7 June 1916, he commanded twenty-five men of “A” Company in a raid on P5, Salonika, on 9 October 1916, and later led them on an attack at lake Dorian, Salonika, on 8 May 1917, actions which contributed towards the award of his Military Cross. Promoted Captain on 1 July 1917, he was appointed Adjutant on 15 October 1917 and was presented with his Military Cross by the General Officer Commanding Sir George Milne at Karsoulie on 20 March 1918. He returned to France with his Battalion in July 1918 and was transferred to the 8th Battalion in October 1918. Between the Wars he became well known to the Prince of Wales (later Duke of Windsor), and was sometime Comptroller to the Duke of Sutherland. Granted a Regular Army Emergency Commission as a Second Lieutenant on 18 October 1939, he was appointed by the Palace to serve as Aide and Comptroller to H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor who, though serving with the British Military Mission in France, remained firmly ‘on the outside’ as far as the Establishment was concerned.
Comptroller to the Duke of Windsor
‘Major Gray Phillips, impeccably dressed in the uniform of the Black Watch, hesitated a third time in front of the royal bedroom. He was the Duke's equerry; and his friendship and unofficial service reached back past the frustrated beginnings of World War Two, through the humiliations of the post abdication years, into the senselessly precipitated abdication crisis itself, the truncated ten-month reign as King and the faded brilliance of the Prince of Wales era. At seven in the morning, Phillips knew that His Royal Highness and the Duchess would still be sound asleep. Never early risers, they would resent being disturbed regardless of the provocation, even though the dazzling Caribbean sun was already far along in its orbit, and a cooling breeze following the night's violent storm had cleared air and sky and sea to blend all into a startling blue. Major Phillips reluctantly brought his clenched fist against the bedroom door, first cautiously and then with sufficient strength to be heard. The muted grumblings from behind the door came soon; and some minutes after the royal aide identified himself, the Duke, attired in white silk robe, the Royal British Coat of Arms embroidered in azure, red, silver and gold on the pocket, his brownish hair in total disarray, opened the door.’ (The Duke of Windsor’s War by Michael Bloch refers). The news which prompted Gray Phillips to wake his royal master at Government House, Nassau, on the morning of 8 July 1943 was the discovery of the battered and charred body of the Bahamas' number one citizen, Sir Harry Oakes, reputedly the richest Baronet in the British Empire. The Duke of Windsor was seized with the thought that he must take principal charge of the investigation. On this occasion, as on others during his wartime exile, he was to prove a loose cannon. In order to try and give himself time to think he ordered Phillips to call the local radio station and Sir Etienne Dupuch, publisher of the Nassan Tribune, at home, and slap an embargo on the news. The news leaked out anyhow. Next, he called in the Miami Police, believing the local constabulary was entirely unequal to such a crisis. Thirdly, and worst of all, he made up his mind who had committed the murder before the investigation began, pointing the finger at Oakes' son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny, who had been less than respectful towards the Royal Governor. The jury acquitted De Marigny without hesitation. The murder of Sir Harry Oakes remains a mystery despite a plethora of theories, some convincing, some grotesque. What remains is the less than impressive role played by the Duke. It was one of several witnessed first hand by Major Gray Phillips as Comptroller to His Royal Highness.
Gray Phillips was six and a half feet tall and had beautiful manners. He was something of a frustrated aesthete and intellectual, and had been a brilliant classical scholar at Eton. He was charming, resourceful, witty, and kind; everyone liked him. A bachelor with a strong artistic streak, crucially he got on marvellously well with the Duchess of Windsor. In late May 1940 as the German armies swept across France, Gray Phillips and “Fruity" Metcalfe were in Paris holding the fort at the Duke's residence in the Boulevard Suchet, while their royal master, having stripped the house of all articles of value including all the cars, had attached himself to the French Command on the Cote d'Azur. Metcalfe, the Duke's trusted friend for twenty years, was disgusted and left for England. Gray Phillips complained of nothing except a faltering electricity supply and that 'no ice could be found for his drink'. When the Germans burst through the Weygrand Line in early June, he set out on a long and difficult journey to rejoin the Duke and Duchess at La Cröe in Antibes which he reached 'after four terrible days hitch-hiking from Angers'. 'As he fell upon food and drink', he recounted 'the amazing chaos he had seen and the total collapse of French resistance'. With the Germans barely 200 miles away to the north, the Duke asked members of the British Embassy, encamped at Bordeaux, if he and the Duchess were to be evacuated by the Royal Navy, but, in spite of the dramatic consequences of the Duke falling into Nazi hands, no vessel could be spared. On the 18th, British officials remaining in France agreed it was definitely time the Duke left and in the continuing absence of any ships, it was decided that the Windsors, together with Gray Phillips, an equerry, Captain Wood, and his wife, Rosa, should join two members of the British Consulate at Nice who were about to evacuate their posts and cross into Spain. However the Consuls could not obtain visas for them and there was a risk that they might not be admitted or that once admitted the Duke, Phillips and Wood might be arrested as members of the British forces on neutral soil. On the 19th, the Duchess' birthday, the party reached Perpignan, where Gray Phillips remained at an hotel with the Duchess and Rosa Wood, while the Duke and Wood went on to obtain visas. During the afternoon, however, Phillips, the Duchess, and Rosa Wood were evicted when the hotel was suddenly requisitioned by the French Government which planned to move there in the event of the armistice talks breaking down. Meanwhile the Duke was informed that only he and the Duchess would be given visas. The Duke declared that it was to be all or none of them, and f...
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The historically interesting Great War ‘Salonika’ M.C. group of six awarded to Major E. G. M. Phillips, Black Watch, Comptroller to H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor throughout the Second World War, when he aided the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s evacuation from France in June 1940, met Churchill at Downing Street, caused a stir by using a Royal postcard to write to a friend in Fascist Italy, and reported the murder of Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas
Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. E. G. M. Phillips. R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. G. M. Phillips.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (6) £1600-2000
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M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.
Edwin Gray Moneylaws Phillips was born at Kirklington, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, on 11 October 1884, and was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. Commissioned into the Black Watch in December 1914, he served with the 10th Battalion in France and Salonika during the Great War. Promoted Lieutenant on 7 June 1916, he commanded twenty-five men of “A” Company in a raid on P5, Salonika, on 9 October 1916, and later led them on an attack at lake Dorian, Salonika, on 8 May 1917, actions which contributed towards the award of his Military Cross. Promoted Captain on 1 July 1917, he was appointed Adjutant on 15 October 1917 and was presented with his Military Cross by the General Officer Commanding Sir George Milne at Karsoulie on 20 March 1918. He returned to France with his Battalion in July 1918 and was transferred to the 8th Battalion in October 1918. Between the Wars he became well known to the Prince of Wales (later Duke of Windsor), and was sometime Comptroller to the Duke of Sutherland. Granted a Regular Army Emergency Commission as a Second Lieutenant on 18 October 1939, he was appointed by the Palace to serve as Aide and Comptroller to H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor who, though serving with the British Military Mission in France, remained firmly ‘on the outside’ as far as the Establishment was concerned.
Comptroller to the Duke of Windsor
‘Major Gray Phillips, impeccably dressed in the uniform of the Black Watch, hesitated a third time in front of the royal bedroom. He was the Duke's equerry; and his friendship and unofficial service reached back past the frustrated beginnings of World War Two, through the humiliations of the post abdication years, into the senselessly precipitated abdication crisis itself, the truncated ten-month reign as King and the faded brilliance of the Prince of Wales era. At seven in the morning, Phillips knew that His Royal Highness and the Duchess would still be sound asleep. Never early risers, they would resent being disturbed regardless of the provocation, even though the dazzling Caribbean sun was already far along in its orbit, and a cooling breeze following the night's violent storm had cleared air and sky and sea to blend all into a startling blue. Major Phillips reluctantly brought his clenched fist against the bedroom door, first cautiously and then with sufficient strength to be heard. The muted grumblings from behind the door came soon; and some minutes after the royal aide identified himself, the Duke, attired in white silk robe, the Royal British Coat of Arms embroidered in azure, red, silver and gold on the pocket, his brownish hair in total disarray, opened the door.’ (The Duke of Windsor’s War by Michael Bloch refers). The news which prompted Gray Phillips to wake his royal master at Government House, Nassau, on the morning of 8 July 1943 was the discovery of the battered and charred body of the Bahamas' number one citizen, Sir Harry Oakes, reputedly the richest Baronet in the British Empire. The Duke of Windsor was seized with the thought that he must take principal charge of the investigation. On this occasion, as on others during his wartime exile, he was to prove a loose cannon. In order to try and give himself time to think he ordered Phillips to call the local radio station and Sir Etienne Dupuch, publisher of the Nassan Tribune, at home, and slap an embargo on the news. The news leaked out anyhow. Next, he called in the Miami Police, believing the local constabulary was entirely unequal to such a crisis. Thirdly, and worst of all, he made up his mind who had committed the murder before the investigation began, pointing the finger at Oakes' son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny, who had been less than respectful towards the Royal Governor. The jury acquitted De Marigny without hesitation. The murder of Sir Harry Oakes remains a mystery despite a plethora of theories, some convincing, some grotesque. What remains is the less than impressive role played by the Duke. It was one of several witnessed first hand by Major Gray Phillips as Comptroller to His Royal Highness.
Gray Phillips was six and a half feet tall and had beautiful manners. He was something of a frustrated aesthete and intellectual, and had been a brilliant classical scholar at Eton. He was charming, resourceful, witty, and kind; everyone liked him. A bachelor with a strong artistic streak, crucially he got on marvellously well with the Duchess of Windsor. In late May 1940 as the German armies swept across France, Gray Phillips and “Fruity" Metcalfe were in Paris holding the fort at the Duke's residence in the Boulevard Suchet, while their royal master, having stripped the house of all articles of value including all the cars, had attached himself to the French Command on the Cote d'Azur. Metcalfe, the Duke's trusted friend for twenty years, was disgusted and left for England. Gray Phillips complained of nothing except a faltering electricity supply and that 'no ice could be found for his drink'. When the Germans burst through the Weygrand Line in early June, he set out on a long and difficult journey to rejoin the Duke and Duchess at La Cröe in Antibes which he reached 'after four terrible days hitch-hiking from Angers'. 'As he fell upon food and drink', he recounted 'the amazing chaos he had seen and the total collapse of French resistance'. With the Germans barely 200 miles away to the north, the Duke asked members of the British Embassy, encamped at Bordeaux, if he and the Duchess were to be evacuated by the Royal Navy, but, in spite of the dramatic consequences of the Duke falling into Nazi hands, no vessel could be spared. On the 18th, British officials remaining in France agreed it was definitely time the Duke left and in the continuing absence of any ships, it was decided that the Windsors, together with Gray Phillips, an equerry, Captain Wood, and his wife, Rosa, should join two members of the British Consulate at Nice who were about to evacuate their posts and cross into Spain. However the Consuls could not obtain visas for them and there was a risk that they might not be admitted or that once admitted the Duke, Phillips and Wood might be arrested as members of the British forces on neutral soil. On the 19th, the Duchess' birthday, the party reached Perpignan, where Gray Phillips remained at an hotel with the Duchess and Rosa Wood, while the Duke and Wood went on to obtain visas. During the afternoon, however, Phillips, the Duchess, and Rosa Wood were evicted when the hotel was suddenly requisitioned by the French Government which planned to move there in the event of the armistice talks breaking down. Meanwhile the Duke was informed that only he and the Duchess would be given visas. The Duke declared that it was to be all or none of them, and f...
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Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. E. G. M. Phillips. R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. G. M. Phillips.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (6) £1600-2000
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M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.
Edwin Gray Moneylaws Phillips was born at Kirklington, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, on 11 October 1884, and was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. Commissioned into the Black Watch in December 1914, he served with the 10th Battalion in France and Salonika during the Great War. Promoted Lieutenant on 7 June 1916, he commanded twenty-five men of “A” Company in a raid on P5, Salonika, on 9 October 1916, and later led them on an attack at lake Dorian, Salonika, on 8 May 1917, actions which contributed towards the award of his Military Cross. Promoted Captain on 1 July 1917, he was appointed Adjutant on 15 October 1917 and was presented with his Military Cross by the General Officer Commanding Sir George Milne at Karsoulie on 20 March 1918. He returned to France with his Battalion in July 1918 and was transferred to the 8th Battalion in October 1918. Between the Wars he became well known to the Prince of Wales (later Duke of Windsor), and was sometime Comptroller to the Duke of Sutherland. Granted a Regular Army Emergency Commission as a Second Lieutenant on 18 October 1939, he was appointed by the Palace to serve as Aide and Comptroller to H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor who, though serving with the British Military Mission in France, remained firmly ‘on the outside’ as far as the Establishment was concerned.
Comptroller to the Duke of Windsor
‘Major Gray Phillips, impeccably dressed in the uniform of the Black Watch, hesitated a third time in front of the royal bedroom. He was the Duke's equerry; and his friendship and unofficial service reached back past the frustrated beginnings of World War Two, through the humiliations of the post abdication years, into the senselessly precipitated abdication crisis itself, the truncated ten-month reign as King and the faded brilliance of the Prince of Wales era. At seven in the morning, Phillips knew that His Royal Highness and the Duchess would still be sound asleep. Never early risers, they would resent being disturbed regardless of the provocation, even though the dazzling Caribbean sun was already far along in its orbit, and a cooling breeze following the night's violent storm had cleared air and sky and sea to blend all into a startling blue. Major Phillips reluctantly brought his clenched fist against the bedroom door, first cautiously and then with sufficient strength to be heard. The muted grumblings from behind the door came soon; and some minutes after the royal aide identified himself, the Duke, attired in white silk robe, the Royal British Coat of Arms embroidered in azure, red, silver and gold on the pocket, his brownish hair in total disarray, opened the door.’ (The Duke of Windsor’s War by Michael Bloch refers). The news which prompted Gray Phillips to wake his royal master at Government House, Nassau, on the morning of 8 July 1943 was the discovery of the battered and charred body of the Bahamas' number one citizen, Sir Harry Oakes, reputedly the richest Baronet in the British Empire. The Duke of Windsor was seized with the thought that he must take principal charge of the investigation. On this occasion, as on others during his wartime exile, he was to prove a loose cannon. In order to try and give himself time to think he ordered Phillips to call the local radio station and Sir Etienne Dupuch, publisher of the Nassan Tribune, at home, and slap an embargo on the news. The news leaked out anyhow. Next, he called in the Miami Police, believing the local constabulary was entirely unequal to such a crisis. Thirdly, and worst of all, he made up his mind who had committed the murder before the investigation began, pointing the finger at Oakes' son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny, who had been less than respectful towards the Royal Governor. The jury acquitted De Marigny without hesitation. The murder of Sir Harry Oakes remains a mystery despite a plethora of theories, some convincing, some grotesque. What remains is the less than impressive role played by the Duke. It was one of several witnessed first hand by Major Gray Phillips as Comptroller to His Royal Highness.
Gray Phillips was six and a half feet tall and had beautiful manners. He was something of a frustrated aesthete and intellectual, and had been a brilliant classical scholar at Eton. He was charming, resourceful, witty, and kind; everyone liked him. A bachelor with a strong artistic streak, crucially he got on marvellously well with the Duchess of Windsor. In late May 1940 as the German armies swept across France, Gray Phillips and “Fruity" Metcalfe were in Paris holding the fort at the Duke's residence in the Boulevard Suchet, while their royal master, having stripped the house of all articles of value including all the cars, had attached himself to the French Command on the Cote d'Azur. Metcalfe, the Duke's trusted friend for twenty years, was disgusted and left for England. Gray Phillips complained of nothing except a faltering electricity supply and that 'no ice could be found for his drink'. When the Germans burst through the Weygrand Line in early June, he set out on a long and difficult journey to rejoin the Duke and Duchess at La Cröe in Antibes which he reached 'after four terrible days hitch-hiking from Angers'. 'As he fell upon food and drink', he recounted 'the amazing chaos he had seen and the total collapse of French resistance'. With the Germans barely 200 miles away to the north, the Duke asked members of the British Embassy, encamped at Bordeaux, if he and the Duchess were to be evacuated by the Royal Navy, but, in spite of the dramatic consequences of the Duke falling into Nazi hands, no vessel could be spared. On the 18th, British officials remaining in France agreed it was definitely time the Duke left and in the continuing absence of any ships, it was decided that the Windsors, together with Gray Phillips, an equerry, Captain Wood, and his wife, Rosa, should join two members of the British Consulate at Nice who were about to evacuate their posts and cross into Spain. However the Consuls could not obtain visas for them and there was a risk that they might not be admitted or that once admitted the Duke, Phillips and Wood might be arrested as members of the British forces on neutral soil. On the 19th, the Duchess' birthday, the party reached Perpignan, where Gray Phillips remained at an hotel with the Duchess and Rosa Wood, while the Duke and Wood went on to obtain visas. During the afternoon, however, Phillips, the Duchess, and Rosa Wood were evicted when the hotel was suddenly requisitioned by the French Government which planned to move there in the event of the armistice talks breaking down. Meanwhile the Duke was informed that only he and the Duchess would be given visas. The Duke declared that it was to be all or none of them, and f...
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