The Duke & Duchess of Windsor Society Quarterly Journal Issue 3-2009 (Issue 21) The Private World of Hugo Vickers: An interview with the author of The Private World of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor.
Gaulding, Mark (publisher).
Place Published: Palm Desert, CA:
Publisher: JMVintage,
Date Published: 2009.
Description: Duke & Duchess of Windsor Society Journal--Back Issue 3/2009 (Issue 21). A 56-page four color spiral bound news journal. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor Society is an exclusive Society of individuals interested in Wallis and Edward ("WE"). Membership in this "almost cultish" group allows you to participate by sharing your own WE interest and collection with other like-minded individuals throughout the world. The Society was founded over twenty years ago. This organization is founded upon member participation and interest, which is collectively focused in a quarterly journal. Throughout the years it's members have visited and reported on tours of exclusive WE-sites, such as Frogmore, The Mill, among others. Join us for future exciting visits to Windsor haunts around the world or read about the couple's many contributions to fashion, food, entertainment and design. Perhaps you'll be the one who is reporting! This issue features: COVER: The Private World of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor with photo of author, Hugo Vickers. See the enclosed interview; Editor's Column: A review of this issue as well as topical commentary on current stories that are in the headlines; Letter to the Editor: Soicety Member, Edward Pattillo (AL) writes a letter to the editor in response to previous issue about Baltimore, Maryland; THE PRIVATE WORLD OF HUGO VICKERS An interview with Society Member Hugo Vickers who talks about his career as a biographer and historian, his family, and how much he looks forward to the sunny skies in October at the upcoming Duke & Duchess of Windsor Society Conference in San Diego where he'll be featured speaker; THE YOUNG UPSTART AND THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR Society Member and guest speaker at the upcoming Duke & Duchess of Windsor Society Conference in San Diego, Richard Rene Silvin, shares an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Noblesse Oblige: The Duchess of Windsor I Knew. As administrator of the American Hospital of Paris, Silvin found an unlikely mentor and friend in the Duhcess of Windsor during the 70's. THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR, THE PRINCE OF WALES, AND THE CORONADO LEGEND, part 1: Dr. Benjamin Sacks investigates the long held legend that Edward Prince of Wales and Wallis Warfield Spencer met originally in 1920 in San Diego when Edward made a two-day visit while on his Australian world tour. For years, this legend added even more mystery surrounding the Windsors. This two-part article originally appeared in The Journal of San Diego History Fall 1987 and is reprinted here with permissino of the family of Professor Sacks who passed away in 2007 at the age of 104. Part to will appear in the next issue of the journal; KING MAGNUS & KING MINUS: A PLAY AND A PLAYLET by Stanley Weintraub. George Bernard Shaw influenced the abdication crisis with a short play that has been forgotten in the last seventy years. This article originally was published in the Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Volume 27, 2007 and is reprinted in its entirety with the permission of the publisher, Penn State Press, and the author; NEW MEMBERS/MEMBER NEWS; DUKE & DUCHESS OF WINDSOR SOCIETY CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 2009; BATY'S BIDDLE STREET BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION IN Batlimore for the Duchess of Windsor. Society Member Philip Baty successfully concludes his fifth annual Duchess of Windsor Birthday celebration charity fund-raising event in Baltimore--this year with Society Members to help celebrate; SOCIETY MEMBER PROFILE: John Makepeace (VA) An interview with Society Member John Makepeace and a look at his large Windsor Collection which includes exquisite King Edward VIII coronation commemoratives, faux jewelry, books and more; WE: CUISINE-WISE A southern recipe, Shrimp and Corn Pie, using receipes from Wallis' cookbook Some Favorite Southern Recipes and Suzy Menkes' The Windsot Style by June Gaulding; WE SIGHTINGS BACKISSUE32009
Binding: SpiralCondition: Fine
Book Id: 18315
Price: $14.00
