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Untitled - The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (Hardcover)
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Untitled - The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (Hardcover)
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'The best book about the Windsors for decades' Petronella Wyatt The
intimate biography of one of the most misunderstood women in
British royal history. His charisma and glamour ensured him the
status of a rock star prince. Yet Edward gave up the British
throne, the British Empire and his position as Emperor of India, to
marry his true love, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. So much
gossip and innuendo has been levelled at Wallis Simpson that it has
become nearly impossible to discern the real woman. Many have
wondered why, when Edward could have had anyone he desired, he was
smitten with this unusual American woman. As her friend Herman
Rogers said to her in 1936 when news of her affair with Edward
broke: 'Much of what is being said concerns a woman who does not
exist and never did exist.' History is mostly perceived from the
perspective of his-story. But what about her story? Anna
Pasternak's new book is the first ever to give Wallis a chance and
a voice to show that she was a warm, loyal, intelligent woman
adored by her friends, who was written off by cunning, influential
Establishment men seeking to diminish her and destroy her
reputation. As the author argues, far from being the villain of the
abdication, she was the victim. Anna Pasternak seeks to understand
an unusual, deeply misunderstood woman, and the untenable situation
she became embroiled in. Using testimony from their inner circle of
friends, she presents a very different Wallis Simpson. With
empathy, intimacy and thorough research, this book will make
readers view her story as it has never been told before.
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