The Duchess of Windsor

Description

"Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, was one of the most famous women in history, the American divorcee who captured the King of England, Edward VIII, and cost him his throne. Until Charles Higham's 1.3 million-copy bestseller, much of her life was a glamorous mystery. Now, fifteen years later, major new documentary evidence, classified at the time, makes for a book far more sensational than the original bestseller. Drawing from long-suppressed archives in France, England, and the United States, Higham has uncovered the duchess's passionate affair with a top-ranking political figure, the duke's romantic involvement with a male equerry, the secret radio broadcasts the couple made to Hitler, and the blackmail plot in Paris that almost brought them - and the British royal family - to ruin."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

The world into which Bessie Wallis Warfield was born, out of wedlock, on June 19, 1895, was without airplanes, television, radio, movies, automobiles, income tax, chain stores, supermarkets, cafeterias, ice cream sundaes, crossword puzzles, or bathing trunks.

Excerpt

The world into which Bessie Wallis Warfield was born, out of wedlock, on June 19, 1895, was without airplanes, television, radio, movies, automobiles, income tax, chain stores, supermarkets, cafeterias, ice cream sundaes, crossword puzzles, or bathing trunks.

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Other Editions

• The Duchess of Windsor: the secret lifeMass Market PaperbackJove Books1989-08-01
• The Duchess of WindsorMcGraw-Hill Book Co.1988-01-01
• The Duchess of WindsorMcGraw-Hill Book Co.1988-01-01
• La scandaleuse Duchesse de WindsorJena-Claude Lattès1989-01-01
• The Duchess of WindsorBerkeley1992-01-01
• Duchess Of WindsorPaperbackBerkley1993-01-15