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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A definitive account of the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936 draws on archival material and interviews with the king's closest friends to detail the role played by the king's opponents and supporters and the resulting scandal at a time when war was imminent.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Edward was the twentieth century's Prince Charming. He was handsome, eloquent, quick-witted, charismatic, a dazzling foil to his stuffy royal parents. He was a popular hero who saw firsthand the hell of the trenches in the Great War, who raged at the miseries of the Depression, who adored jazz, danced the night away and seemed the very embodiment of a new democratic royalty that would rule the greatest empire on earth. When he became King in 1936,...
12) The phoenix
Author
Series
Dynasty ; 35
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1931, in the aftermath of the Wall Street crash, Polly Morland returns to Morland Place to save it from financial ruin, Jack seizes an opportunity to return to York, Robert seeks something grander than his London office job, and his sister Charlotte longs for a better life.
13) Edward VIII
Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of the late, enigmatic Duke of Windsor, scrutinizing his unusual upbringing, his complex and flawed character, his precipitous abdication, and his twenty-five years of embittered exile.
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Considering Edward VIII's travels and interests as Prince of Wales as well as his relationship with Wallis Simpson and the course of events leading up to his abdication and subsequent exile, Once a King offers a previously unexplored lens through which we encounter first-hand the hitherto concealed subtlety and raw emotion of two of the twentieth century's most iconic Royal figures: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
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