Dancing with the devil
Subtitle: the Windsors and Jimmy Donahue
By: Christopher Wilson.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972.; Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896- -- Friends and associates.; Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972 -- Friends and associates.; Donahue, James Paul, 1915-1966 -- Friends and associates.; Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896-; Donahue, James Paul, 1915-1966.; Socialites -- United States -- Biography.; Nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Gay men -- United States -- Biography.; Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The Story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor is one of the most romantic of all time - Edward VIII abdicated his throne and gave up an empire so that he could marry the woman he loved, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Very few people suspected, and even fewer actually knew, that the Duchess cuckolded and almost gave him up for a gay playboy twenty years her junior.".

"Gay at a time when the homosexual act was unmentionable, Jimmy was notorious within America's upper class and loved to shock. Though press agents arranged for him to be seen with female escorts, his pursuits, until he met the Duchess of Windsor, were exclusively homosexual. He was thirty-five when he was befriended by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1950. The Duchess was fifty-four, and despite the difference in age, there was an instant attraction.

A burgeoning sexual relationship - a perverse sort of love - was formed between Jimmy and the Duchess. Together with the Duke, they became an inseparable trio, the closest of friends. As Jimmy had planned, the royal couple became obsessed with him." "With information from surviving contemporaries, Dancing with the Devil is the extraordinary tale of three remarkable people and their unique and twisted relationship."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-264) and index.