The Duchess of Windsor: The Uncommon Life of Wallis SimpsonCitadel Press, 2000 - 556 páginas It was the love story of the century -- the king and the commoner. In December 1936, King Edward VIII renounced the throne to marry "the woman that I love", Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American. His love quickly became one of the twentieth century's most famous personalities. Until her death in 1986, she was a figure of intrigue and mystery, both admired and reviled. For years interest in her story has remained constant, resulting in a small library of books. All of these biographies share one quality: a thinly veiled animosity toward the subject. The Duchess of Windsor sifts the decades of rumor and accusation to reveal the woman behind the legend. The Duchess's hold over her husband, her alleged sexual secrets and experiences, the couple's bitter relationship with the British Royal Family, and their involvement with Hitler and the Third Reich are all fully examined. From her birth in Pennsylvania in 1896, during the Gilded Age, to her death in Paris in 1986, Greg King takes the reader through a world of privilege, palaces, titles, high society, and love to an accompaniment of hatreds, feuds, conspiracies, and lies. The cast of characters is vast: Lady Diana Cooper; Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West; Nancy Astor; Emerald Cunard; Noel Coward; Cecil Beaton; Lord and Lady Mountbatten; the Vanderbilts; Pamela Harriman; Adolf Hitler; Winston Churchill; and hundreds of others -- politicians and presidents, dictators and socialites. Using previously untapped sources, the author presents a complete and, for the first time, sympathetic portrait of the Duchess. Wild speculations -- about her past affairs, her domination of the duke, and her tragic and lonely end --are answered. Wrongly blamed for the abdication crisis, Wallis suffered years of hostility from the Royal Family and much of the world. The truth is infinitely more fascinating than the shallow, pathetic portrait previously painted. |
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Índice
Romeo and Juliet in Baltimore | 3 |
Childhood | 14 |
Youth | 26 |
Win | 38 |
Marriage | 46 |
China | 58 |
Ernest | 68 |
The Prince of Wales | 79 |
Exile in Paris | 290 |
Two Houses | 301 |
War | 317 |
The Plot to Kidnap the Windsors | 328 |
The Bahamas | 341 |
The Visit to America | 351 |
The Duchesss War Work | 358 |
Shady Friendships Murder and Treachery | 367 |
A Fateful Weekend | 97 |
Wallis in Wonderland | 106 |
The Relationship Deepens | 116 |
The Passing of the King | 131 |
The New Reign | 139 |
The Kings Mistress | 150 |
The Nahlin Cruise | 164 |
The Divorce | 173 |
Growing Troubles | 181 |
A Pretty Kettle of Fish | 193 |
The Morganatic Marriage Proposal | 200 |
Flight to France | 210 |
The Struggle for the Throne | 219 |
Abdication | 233 |
Rat Week | 241 |
The Whole World Against Us and Our Love | 251 |
At War With the Royal Family | 258 |
The Wedding | 264 |
The Visit to Germany | 277 |
Postwar Wanderings | 376 |
The Death of the King | 386 |
The Last Two Houses | 393 |
A Woman of Style | 403 |
Life in Paris | 413 |
41 | 421 |
American Adventures 393 | 424 |
The Windsors and the Royal Family | 441 |
Declining Years | 452 |
The Dukes Death | 461 |
Wallis Alone | 476 |
Last Years | 487 |
Epilogue | 495 |
Acknowledgments | 507 |
Source Notes | 511 |
Bibliography | 537 |
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