Edward VIII / by Frances Donaldson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Donaldson, Frances Lonsdale, Lady

Contributor:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972.
• Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.
• Great Britain.
• Kings and rulers.
• Great Britain--History--Edward VIII, 1936.
• History.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

477 pages 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Lippincott, [1975]

Summary:

Chronicles the life of the late, enigmatic Duke of Windsor, scrutinizing his unusual upbringing, his complex and flawed character, his precipitous abdication, and his twenty-five years of embittered exile.

Contents:

• Childhood
• Navy
• Oxford
• First world war
• The prince in love
• The first tours
• India
• The prince at home
• Abroad
• 'No doubt of the young man's capacity for goodness'
• Wallis Warfield
• Mrs. Simpson
• King Edward
• The king and Nazi Germany
• The Nahlin
• The divorce
• The letter
• 'Something must be done'
• The Morganatic marriage proposal
• The press breaks silence
• A king's party?
• The last days
• After the abdication
• Schloss Enzesfeld
• The wedding
• The Duke of Windsor visits Germany
• Married life
• The war
• Encounter with the Germans
• The Bahamas
• The exile
• The homecoming
• Abdication message of Edward VIII.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Donaldson, Frances Lonsdale, Lady. Edward VIII.

ISBN:

• 0397007655
• 9780397007653

OCLC:

1130063