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If you thought you knew everything there is to know about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, you are in for a shock... In this authoritative, entertaining dual biography of Edward VIII and the American woman for whom he sacrificed the crown of England and its Empire, we see the Windsors as they have never been seen before: Wallis as a domineering woman who badgered the King for a bigger title, and the King himself as a slave of love. Through interviews with those closest to them, we observe their marriage not as the sentimental love story but as the nightmare it truly was. The Windsor Story sweeps the reader up into a saga embracing two World Wars, the roaring twenties, the decadent caf society of the fifties, and a score of personalities ranging from Cecil Beaton to Adolf Hitler, with major appearances by Winston Churchill, Prime Minster Stanley Baldwin, Queen Mary, the present Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, and the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is above all enthralling history, shedding new light on who made the decisions that led to disaster, the court intrigue that swirled around the Abdication (a Watergate-sized foul-up), the gulling of the British press by Lo

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Author

Joseph III. Bryan; Charles John Vincent Murphy

Publisher

William Morrow and Comapny

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780688035532

Category

history

Subjects

Military, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.97 / 5 (62 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14