- SKU: 9780345375636
- BARCODE: 9780345375636
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
King Edward VIII: The definitive portrait of the Duke of Windsor - Paperback
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by Philip Ziegler (Author)
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.Author Biography
Philip Ziegler was born in 1929 and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, where he gained first-class honours in jurisprudence. He then joined the diplomatic service and served in Vientiane, Paris, Pretoria, and Bogotá before resigning to join the publishers William Collins, where he was editorial director for more than 15 years. His books have included biographies of William IV, Viscount Melbourne, Lady Diana Cooper, Lord Mountbatten, and Edward VIII. He passed away in 2023.
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