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19 de ene. de 2021 · The Crown in Crisis explores the relationship between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII—which eventually lead to his abdication. There followed the corroborating evidence of two waiters and a ...
19 de ene. de 2021 · The thrilling and definitive account of the Abdication Crisis of 1936. On December 10, 1936, King Edward VIII brought a great international drama to a close when he abdicated, renouncing the throne of the United Kingdom for himself and his heirs. The reason he gave when addressing his subjects was that he could not fulfill his duties without ...
Alexander Larman’s The Crown in Crisis will treat readers to a new, thrilling view of this legendary story. Informed by revelatory archival material never-before-seen, as well as by interviews with many of Edward’s and Wallis’s close friends, Larman creates an hour-by-hour, day-by-day suspenseful narrative that brings readers up to the point where the microphone is turned on and the king ...
Hardcover – 8 September 2020. In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charles I. The ruling monarch, Edward VIII, wished to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson and crown her as his Queen. His actions scandalised the Establishment, who ...
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- Alexander Larman
9 de jul. de 2020 · Excellent, well written, deeply researched, THE CROWN IN CRISIS is a dynamic revisionist history of the Abdication that brings to life a national and personal drama with a flamboyant cast of princes, charlatans, socialites, courtiers, press barons, politicians and adventurers that is both heartbreaking and glamorous, scholarly and very entertaining.
- Alexander Larman
convincing fashion, ‘The Crown In Crisis’ is something rather special, certainly the best book about the abdication that I can remember reading. And all the parallels between Wallis and Edward and Meghan and Harry - left implicit by Larman, apart from an amusing allusion in the acknowledgements - make it all the more delicious to savour
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5 de ene. de 2016 · A further fact relating to the possible designation of Duke William as King Edward the Confessor's preferred successor is that at about the time Earl Harold was supposed to have visited Normandy King Edward's nephew, Walter of Mantes & the Vexim, the son of Edward's full sister Goda or Godifu, had just starved to death, along with his wife, in a Norman dungeon.
