num_pages: 440
description: "Given my character, my roving curiosity and independence, my life appeared to form a disconnected pattern--duty without decision, service without responsibility, pomp without power. Meanwhile, something had happened that, although I did not realise it at the time, was destined to change the whole course of my life. I met Wallis Warfield Simpson." Written in 1951, in his own hand, this is the story of a man raised to be king, a man who abdicated the throne to marry an American divorce. Theirs was to become the most famous love affair of this century. In this poignant, elegantly written memoir, the Duke recalls his austere upbringing, his days at Oxford, the Great War, his profound love for Wallis Simpson and the growing crisis over the affair, and the appalling dilemma that confronted him in the final months leading up to his abdication.
language: English
title: A King's Story: The Memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor K.G.
titlecomplete: A King's Story: The Memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor K.G. (Lost Treasures Series)
characters: Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill, Mary of Teck, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Prince Alexander of Cambridge, King Fuad I, Boris III, Wallis Simpson, Kamâl Atatürk, José Jurado
genres: Biography, History, British Literature, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 158
publisher: Prion Books