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Author | : Ted Powell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-08-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0192514571 |
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Before he fell in love with Wallis Simpson, Edward VIII had fallen in love with America. As a young Prince of Wales, Edward witnessed the birth of the American century at the end of the First World War and, captivated by the energy, confidence, and raw power of the USA as it strode onto the world stage, he paid a number of subsequent visits: surfing in Hawaii; dancing with an American shop-girl in Panama; and partying with the cream of New York society on Long Island. Eventually, of course, he fell violently in love with Wallis, a Southern belle and latter-day Scarlett O'Hara. Forceful, irreverent, and sassy, she embodied everything that Edward admired about modern America. But Edward's fascination with America was not unreciprocated. America was equally fascinated by the Prince, especially his love life, and he became an international media celebrity through newsreels, radio, and the press. Indeed, even in the decades after his abdication in 1936, Edward remained a celebrity in the US and a regular guest of Presidents and the elite of American society.
Author | : Philip Ziegler |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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King Edward VIII portrays the full life of the monarch, from boyhood to Prince of Wales, exiled monarch, and eventually, Governor of the Bahamas.
Author | : Hector Bolitho |
Publisher | : Hesperides Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2008-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781443720946 |
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author | : Alexander Larman |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2021-01-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250274850 |
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The thrilling and definitive account of the Abdication Crisis of 1936 On December 10, 1936, King Edward VIII brought a great international drama to a close when he abdicated, renouncing the throne of the United Kingdom for himself and his heirs. The reason he gave when addressing his subjects was that he could not fulfill his duties without the woman he loved—the notorious American divorcee Wallis Simpson—by his side. His actions scandalized the establishment, who were desperate to avoid an international embarrassment at a time when war seemed imminent. That the King was rumored to have Nazi sympathies only strengthened their determination that he should be forced off the throne, by any means necessary. Alexander Larman’s The Crown in Crisis will treat readers to a new, thrilling view of this legendary story. Informed by revelatory archival material never-before-seen, as well as by interviews with many of Edward’s and Wallis’s close friends, Larman creates an hour-by-hour, day-by-day suspenseful narrative that brings readers up to the point where the microphone is turned on and the king speaks to his subjects. As well as focusing on King Edward and Mrs. Simpson, Larman looks closely at the roles played by those that stood against him: Prime minister Stanley Baldwin, his private secretary Alec Hardinge, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang. Larman also takes the full measure of those who supported him: the great politician Winston Churchill, Machiavellian newspaper owner Lord Beaverbrook, and the brilliant lawyer Walter Monckton. For the first time in a book about the abdication, readers will read an in-depth account of the assassination attempt on Edward’s life and its consequences, a first-person chronicle of Wallis Simpson’s scandalous divorce proceedings, information from the Royal Archives about the government’s worries about Edward’s relationship with Nazi high-command Ribbentrop and a boots-on-the-ground view of how the British people saw Edward as they watched the drama unfold. You won’t be able to put down The Crown in Crisis, a full panorama of the people and the times surrounding Edward and the woman he loved.
Author | : Philip Ziegler |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1992-01-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780345375636 |
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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, author of the highly praised biographies Diana Cooper and Mountbatten 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. Praise for King Edward VIII “A book of such compelling interest and frankness that it is difficult to put down.”—The New York Times “Almost breathtaking in its candor . . . [a] shrewdly judged, highly polished, and totally riveting book.”—The New Yorker “A masterpiece.”—The Times Literary Supplement (London) “Compulsively readable . . . Ziegler has told Edward’s story with consummate skill, tact and judgment.”—The Sunday Times (London)
Author | : Michael Bloch |
Publisher | : Abacus |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2012-05-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1405517107 |
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Michael Bloch gives a new twist to the oft-told story of King Edward's short reign.Drawing on a decade-long study of the King's personality, and on privileged access to his papers, he sees the King's abdication partly as the result of a plot to get rid of him by men who mistrusted his modernity and popular touch, but also explainable by the fact that he did not really want to be king or fight for his throne.
Author | : Hector Bolitho |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lady Frances Lonsdale Donaldson |
Publisher | : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780397013197 |
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A biography of England's King Edward VIII, with emphasis on the events surrounding his abdication of the throne to marry an American woman.
Author | : Piers Brendon |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2016-04-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0241196426 |
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'After my death,' George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.' The forecast proved uncannily accurate. Edward VIII came to the throne in January 1936, provoked a constitutional crisis by his determination to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and abdicated in December. He was never crowned king. In choosing the woman he loved over his royal birthright, Edward shook the monarchy to its foundations. Given the new title 'Duke of Windsor' and essentially sent into exile, he remained a visible skeleton in the royal cupboard until his death in 1972 and he haunts the house of Windsor to this day. Drawing on unpublished material, notably correspondence with his most loyal (though much tried) supporter Winston Churchill, Piers Brendon's superb biography traces Edward's tumultuous public and private life from bright young prince to troubled sovereign, from wartime colonial governor to sad but glittering expatriate. With pace and panache, it cuts through the myths that still surround this most controversial of modern British monarchs.
Author | : Charles William Domville-Fife |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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