Traitor King
The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor: AS FEATURED ON CHANNEL 4 TV DOCUMENTARY
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd
Published:12th May '22
Should be back in stock very soon
The explosive new book by the bestselling author of The Mountbattens
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
UPDATED PAPERBACK FEATURING NEW CONTENT
A Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021
A Spectator Book of the Year, 2021
'Briskly written and compulsively readable' - A.N.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
UPDATED PAPERBACK FEATURING NEW CONTENT
A Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021
A Spectator Book of the Year, 2021
'Briskly written and compulsively readable' - A.N. Wilson, TLS
'Meticulously researched' - Spectator
'Entertaining, convincing, timely' - Evening Standard
December 1936. The King of England, Edward VIII, has given up his Crown, foregoing his duty for the love of Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée. Their courtship has been dogged by controversy and scandal, but with Edward's abdication, they can live happily ever after. But do they?
In Traitor King, bestselling historian Andrew Lownie draws on hitherto unexplored archives to uncover the dramatic world of the Windsors post-abdication. Lownie reveals a couple obsessed with their status, financially exploiting their position and manipulating the media. Filled with treachery and betrayal, this is a story of an exiled Royal and the Nazi attempts to recruit him to their cause. And of why the Royal family never forgave the Duke for choosing love over duty.
Meticulously researched * Spectator *
Lownie expertly captures the extravagance (they never travelled with fewer than 73 pieces of luggage), the sense of entitlement, the snobbery, the vanity, the selfpity, the bone-idle laziness, the fundamental uselessness of their lives as outcasts. 'I never saw a man so bored,' said one acquaintance. Should this be required reading in a certain household in Montecito, California? * Daily Mail History Books of the Year *
Briskly written and compulsively readable...Does Andrew Lownie persuade me that it is worth telling the story again, and that he has made out the case for his unforgiving title? The answer is an unambiguous yes. -- A.N. Wilson * TLS *
Entertaining... convincing... timely. Urgent reading for royals
* Evening Standard *Darkly compelling...hundreds of eye-popping details...Gripping though it is, this is an unrelentingly damning portrait of the Windsors * Daily Mail *
ISBN: 9781788704878
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 26mm
Weight: 366g
432 pages