1. The Times, 3 August 1937, p. 10; 4 August 1937, p. 12.
2. Royal Archives (hereafter RA), Windsor Castle, GVI/PRIV/CAMP, R. Sterndale Bennett, ‘Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree’, January 1939. Materials held at the Royal Archives cited by permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
3. Newsreel clip, http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=7517;Daily Mirror, 4 August 1937, pp. 1, 3, 13;Daily Herald, 4 August 1937, p. 1.
4. John W. Wheeler-Bennett,King George VI: His Life and Reign(London, 1958), p. 173.
5. Taylor Darbyshire,In the Words of the King: A Selection from the Speeches of His Majesty King George VI(London, 1938), p. 10.