A King's Story: The Memoirs of The Duke of Windsor.
Windsor, Duke of, HRH.
Place Published: New York:
Publisher: G.P. Putnam,
Date Published: 1951.
Description: 435 pages with appendicesThis book is in GOOD condition with some fraying on the edges of the cover and spine. Dust jacket in FAIR condition, with breaking and chipping on the edges of the jacket and spine and is price clipped. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines and ephemera related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Dust jacket reads: At long last the man who has become a legendary figure of romance in his own time speaks out. The Duke of Windsor has said that "reticence is a rule of constitutional princes not lightly put aside, but the desire to be heard can be as strong in kings as in other men. My reign ended in faction and controversy. My side of that story has until now been unheard. As the years went by, and error and supposition multiplied, it became more and more plain that it was my duty to history to put down the facts as I know them. The result is in truth a king's story-the account of a brilliant life traced against the Royal background of Buckingham Palace, Windsor, Balmoral, Sandringham, York House and Fort Belvedere. It is a career that undergoes complex and unexpected inner development as the young Prince, of world renown, progresses from the sheltered classroom of York Cottage into the leveling process of the Royal Naval Colleges, Oxford University, and the democracy of the battlefields, becoming the Salesman-Prince of the world's greatest Empire, and the most popular figure of his day. The Duke of Windsor is happily unfettered, in his writings as in his life, by platitudinous conventions. The result is a warm and human document. The memoirs are more than the autobiography of a Prince who became King. They are the revelation of a man's struggle to secure happiness and purpose within the iron confines of an ancient inheritance. Confronting the author with perhaps the gravest personal decision ever to face a sovereign, the struggle marches to its shattering climax in December, 1936, when Edward, having elected abdicate, sails away in the night from Great Britain.
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Good in Good dj
Book Id: 1172
Price: $23.00
