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King Edward VIII: The definitive portrait of the Duke of Windsor

King Edward VIII: The definitive portrait of the Duke of Windsor

Ziegler, Philip

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0345375637
ISBN13: 9780345375636
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Jan 13 1992
Pages: 624
Weight: 2.03
Height: 1.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
A compulsively readable (The Sunday Times) biography of Edward VIII, the first British monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne, from the acclaimed author of Diana Cooper and Mountbatten

Almost breathtaking in its candor . . . [a] shrewdly judged, highly polished, and totally riveting book.--The New Yorker

He was the twentieth century's Prince Charming. Handsome, elegant, quick-witted, charismatic, and an intimate friend of the most powerful and brilliant people of his day, he had everything youth and beauty could hope for--including fabulous wealth and claim to the English throne. Then, a mere eleven months after becoming King, Edward VIII threw everything away to marry the woman he loved--Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.

In this superbly written biography, Philip Ziegler paints a graceful, balanced, and utterly mesmerizing portrait of the life and times of Edward VIII. Drawing on Edward's extremely frank and explicit diaries and his two thousand love letters (long assumed to have been destroyed), Ziegler shows us the man he truly was. It is a story as compelling as the greatest English novels.

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