Once a King

Once a KingCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781399723947 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2023 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Description: ''An astonishing account' The Daily Mail ' an extraordinary new portrait of the former King, his recollections and feelings'. The Telegraph 'Tippett has made a remarkable archival discovery the most consequential book to appear on Edward VIII since Ziegler's official biography thirty years ago'. Ted Powell, author of King Edward

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781399723947
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton


Description:
''An astonishing account...' --- The Daily Mail



'... an extraordinary new portrait of the former King, his recollections and feelings'. --- The Telegraph



'Tippett has made a remarkable archival discovery...the most consequential book to appear on Edward VIII since Ziegler's official biography thirty years ago'. --- Ted Powell, author of King Edward VIII: An American Life



'... an insightful blend of memoir and royal family history'. --- Publishers Weekly



'... an efficient and thorough recounting of the events as they unfolded in 1936... with striking transcripts of interviews conducted with Wallis'. --- The Sunday Times



'This is an extraordinary book which aims to shed new light on this often maligned figure who irreversibly changed the course of royal history'. --- Harper's Bazaar



'A compelling read that breaks new ground'. --- Irish Daily Mail



'A first-rate biographical study . . . This valuable book allows a tragic king to speak with frankness across the years'. --- The House Magazine





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The real story of Edward VIII - the King who abdicated the throne in 1936 - told in his own words, using an unpublished memoir and other never seen sources.



Fifteen years after having abdicated the throne to marry the woman he loved - Wallis Simpson - King Edward VIII, now the Duke of Windsor, published his memoirs. But whilst preparing the manuscript for his published and mostly ghostwritten book - which, unlike Prince Harry's autobiogr