The Duchess of Windsor.
Bloch, Michael.
Place Published: London,:
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson,
Date Published: 1996.
Description: FIRST EDITION. 238 pages with index. Filled with numerous black and white and color photos and illustrations. This book is NEAR FINE with a small dent in the bottom back cover. NEAR FINE Dust jacket cover has minor crimping on edges and minor shelf wear. This book comes with BRODART archival dust jacket. This is an important addition for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor collection. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines and ephemera related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor Dust jacket reads: EVER SINCE EDWARD VIII gave up his throne in 1936 to marry her, the extraordinary career of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, has never ceased to fascinate. How was it that the most eligible bachelor in the world fell in love with this unknown American woman, who was not generally considered beautiful? What was the nature of their relationship? Was she responsible for the Abdication? What was she really like? The fatherless poor relation of two distinguished American families, Wallis Warfield grew up to be tough and self-reliant. Her unhappy first marriage to a sadistic naval officer was followed by an adventurous period during which she had many love affairs and visited China It was during her second marriage, to the sentimental London businessman Ernest Simpson, that she met the Prince of Wales, who three years later fell passionately in love with her, and three years after that renounced an empire to be united with her. During their complicated life in exile, often in the glare of hostile publicity; she worked hard to give him an existence suitable for an ex-King, and to make him feel his sacrifice had been worthwhile. The years after his death were sad ones, and the protectiveness of her French lawyer, Maitre Susanne Blum, only served to heighten curiosity about the Duchess's strange life. Many questions remain unanswered. Why did her birth go unrecorded? What were the qualities which so infatuated the Prince of Wales? Why did she never have children? Michael Bloch, who spent ten years as Maitre Blum's assistant and edited the Windsors' private correspondence in two best-selling volumes, is the ideal person to provide this biographical reassessment. In it he dispels much of the mystery that has surrounded her, and paints a vivid portrait of a courageous, glamorous and unusual individual - perhaps in some ways not a woman at all. ---------
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 0297835904
Book Id: 1273
Price: $17.50
