The Duchess of Windsor by Charles Higham

The Duchess of Windsor by Charles Higham

Deeply researched, valuable.
-The New York Times Book Review

A shocker . . . stunning . . . absolutely hypnotic. . . . A world of beautiful houses, ceaseless travel, trendsetting fashion, and powerful figures. . . . Fascinating revelations.
-Cosmopolitan

Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, was one of the most famous women in history, the American divorcee who captured the King of England, Edward VI, 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. This updated new edition of The Duchess of Windsor is essential reading.

Higham's best. . . . Serious, deliciously fresh . . . documented by newly opened secret government files in the U.S. and England.
-Kirkus Reviews

Smooth and entertaining.
-The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

An excellent biography . . . alert to every nuance.
-The London Sunday Telegraph

Son of the advertising pioneer Sir Charles Frederick Higham, MP, Charles Higham is the author of Howard Hughes: The Secret Life, a basis of the film The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. His Mrs Simpson: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor, has been a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and he has written bestselling lives of Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis and Orson Welles. A former New York Times feature writer and recipient of the Academie Francaise Prize of the Creators, he lives in Los Angeles.

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ISBN 13	9780070288010
ISBN 10	0070288011
Title	The Duchess of Windsor
Author	Charles Higham
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Year published	1988-09-01
Number of pages	495
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