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"A sympathetic and believable portrait" of the American woman for whom King Edward VIII gave up the throne, with photos included (Christian Science Monitor).
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
It was the love story of the centuryâ??the king and the commoner. In December 1936, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry "the woman I love," Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American who quickly became one of the twentieth century's most famous personalities, a figure of intrigue and mystery, both admired and reviled.
Wrongly blamed for the abdication crisis, Wallis suffered hostility from the Royal Family and much of the world. Yet interest in her story has remained constant, resulting in a small library of biographies that convey a thinly veiled animosity toward their subject. The truth, however, is infinitely more fascinating than the shallow, pathetic portrait that has often been painted.
Using previously untapped sources, acclaimed biographer Greg King presents a complete and, for the first time, sympathetic portrait of the Duchess that sifts the decades of rumor and accusation to reveal the woman behind the legend. From her birth in Pennsylvania during the Gilded Age to her death in Paris in 1986, King takes the reader through a world of privilege, palaces, high society, and love with the accompaniment of hatreds, feuds, conspiracies, and lies. The cast of characters is vast: politicians and presidents, dictators and socialites. Twenty-four pages of photographs reveal the life of the Duchess in all its incomparable glamour and romance.
"A wide, absurd cast of charactersâ??led by the British royal family . . . Wallis' lavish decorat… (altro)
This book was well written , detailed and I was taken by it. I researched after reading this with other versions and felt that the biographer captured these two with an ease that others didn't , He described Wallis Simpson from her upbringing , her abusive first marriage and her love for Ernest Simpson. She was a force and also did seem to love Edward , it may have been romanticism at first but really turned to a honest caring and detailed love for each other as they were both exiled from the Royal family after he gave up his kingship. I did see the underpinnings that exist in the Royal family as they held a hateful revenge to have acknowledged his love for an divorcee . Wallis lived a rather empty life that she filled with expensive jewelry and couture wardrobe to fill up an empty space while the Duke tried to care for gardens and take care of her . Very sad and lonely existence .loved this book ( )
I did not know much about Wallis Simpson before reading this book. I had heard of her and what I heard was not at all flattering. I read a sample of the e-book and immediately could not put it down! It was unbiased, but honest about the Duchess' life, loves, and impact upon society. What it must have been like to have lived such a life. After reading King's biography, I had a much better understanding of a woman much maligned and misunderstood. ( )
A good review of a much maligned woman who had the good fortune to marry the man that Elizabeth Lyon was desperate to marry. As Duchess of York she connive with Baldwin and Cosmo Lang to ensure the the Prince of Wales would never become king. It was the new Queen who forced her husband to illegally withold the title of HRH to the Duchess of Windsor and ensured that the Duke and his wife were not allowed to return to England and carry on his good works. The Windsors were frustated at every turn when they wishe to help his country at a time of grave danger. King George VIth was a simpleton who drank too much which was the cause of his illness and death and not the war, most of which he spent at Windsor, Sandringham and Balmoral with an abundance of food and a life unlike his people. ( )
After all the trash that has been published about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, finally a book that gets closer to the truth. It is not without its bias but seemingly objective. The love affair of HRH and Wallis is one of the great love stories of the twentieth century. It leaves me with a great distaste for the royal family at the time who were mean, cruel, and unforgiving in a manner unacceptable to those who make a great claim to Christianity. The king could not marry Wallis and retain the throne because she was divorced. Now how does that work-Charles divorced Diana, had an adulterous affair with Camilla, and married her as a divorced woman. i don't see how he can sit on the throne and be the head of the church of england. According to the treatment of Edward and Wallis, he can't sit on the throne and she could never be queen. It will be interesting to see how they deal with that situation. Perhaps Lilibet is hoping Charlie will die before she does and the throne will go to Wills. That would be my preferred schemata. ( )
Biography & Autobiography.
History.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
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"A sympathetic and believable portrait" of the American woman for whom King Edward VIII gave up the throne, with photos included (Christian Science Monitor).
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
It was the love story of the centuryâ??the king and the commoner. In December 1936, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry "the woman I love," Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American who quickly became one of the twentieth century's most famous personalities, a figure of intrigue and mystery, both admired and reviled.
Wrongly blamed for the abdication crisis, Wallis suffered hostility from the Royal Family and much of the world. Yet interest in her story has remained constant, resulting in a small library of biographies that convey a thinly veiled animosity toward their subject. The truth, however, is infinitely more fascinating than the shallow, pathetic portrait that has often been painted.
Using previously untapped sources, acclaimed biographer Greg King presents a complete and, for the first time, sympathetic portrait of the Duchess that sifts the decades of rumor and accusation to reveal the woman behind the legend. From her birth in Pennsylvania during the Gilded Age to her death in Paris in 1986, King takes the reader through a world of privilege, palaces, high society, and love with the accompaniment of hatreds, feuds, conspiracies, and lies. The cast of characters is vast: politicians and presidents, dictators and socialites. Twenty-four pages of photographs reveal the life of the Duchess in all its incomparable glamour and romance.
"A wide, absurd cast of charactersâ??led by the British royal family . . . Wallis' lavish decorat
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