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Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Warfield 1896-1986 Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Warfield 1896-1986 Fiction Duke of Windsor, Edward 1894-1972 Fiction Duke of Windsor, Edward 1894-1972 Marriage Great Britain Great Britain Kings and rulers Biography Marriages of royalty and nobility Great Britain History 20th century National socialism Nobility Great Britain Biography World War, 1939-1945 Great BritainLarman, Alexander
Summary: A definitive account of the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936 draws on archival material and interviews with the king's closest friends to detail the role played by the king's opponents and supporters and the resulting scandal at a time when war was imminent.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.084 LARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 LARMorton, Andrew
Summary: Examines the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's relationship with Germany and possible Nazi sympathies, a German plot to make him puppet king of a defeated England, and efforts by the British and American governments to conceal the evidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MORSebba, Anne.
Summary: A portrait of the divorcée maligned for her marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII discusses the impoverished early life that fueled her ambitions, theories about her alleged personality disorder, and her posthumous status as a female empowerment icon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINDSOR, WALLIS, DUCHESS OF SEBMorton, Andrew
Summary: Before she was the woman who enticed a king from his throne, Bessie Wallis Warfield was a prudish girl from Baltimore. Morton shows how she transformed from a hard-nosed gold-digger to charming chatelaine, taking us through Wallis's romantic adventures in Washington, China, and London. "Before she became known as the woman who enticed a king from his throne and birthright, Bessie Wallis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINDSOR, WALLIS WARFIELD MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WINDSOR MORDean, Rebecca
Summary: Reimagines the life of the woman for whom Edward VIII of England abdicated the throne, from her disadvantaged childhood to her upbringing as a socialite by wealthy relatives to her entry into British society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway 2012