Title: The Duchess of Windsor
First published: 1988
Description: "Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, was one of the most famous women in history, the American divorcee who captured the King of England, Edward VIII, and cost him his throne. Until Charles Higham's 1.3 million-copy bestseller, much of her life was a glamorous mystery. Now, fifteen years later, major new documentary evidence, classified at the time, makes for a book far more sensational than the original bestseller. Drawing from long-suppressed archives in France, England, and the United States, Higham has uncovered the duchess's passionate affair with a top-ranking political figure, the duke's romantic involvement with a male equerry, the secret radio broadcasts the couple made to Hitler, and the blackmail plot in Paris that almost brought them - and the British royal family - to ruin."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Marriage, Nobility, Biography, History, Manners and customs, Biographie, Windsor, wallis warfield, duchess of, 1896-1986
Places: Great Britain
People: Wallis Warfield Windsor Duchess of, Edward Windsor Duke of, Wallis Warfield Windsor Duchess of (1896-1986), Edward Windsor Duke of (1894-1972), Wallis Simpson, Wallis Warfield Windsor Duchess of (1896-), Wallis Windsor Duchess of (1896-1986)
Time periods: 20th century, Edward VIII, 1936, 1918-1945
LC classification: DA581.W5, DA581.W5 H54 2004x