03791cam a2200385 4500 251840294 TxAuBib 20160204120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780806535210 0806535210 B00519W6E8 Amazon ac7080c5-0ff1-472f-9517-e992fe09218d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 257484 588468 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib King, Greg. The Duchess Of Windsor [Libby eBook]. Kensington, 2011. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 828kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. royalty. HTML:<p>"A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience."</p> <p>It was the love story of the century—the king and the commoner. In December 1936, King Edward VII abdicated the throne to marry "the woman I love," Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American who quickly became one of the twentieth century's most famous personalities, a figure of intrigue and mystery, both admired and reviled.</p> <p>"Never explain, never complain."</p> <p>Wrongly blamed for the abdication crisis, Wallis suffered hostility from the Royal Family and much of the world. Yet interest in her story has remained constant, resulting in a small library of biographies that convey a thinly veiled animosity toward their subject. The truth, however, is infinitely more fascinating than the shallow, pathetic portrait that has often been painted.</p> <p>"For a gallant spirit, there can never be defeat."</p> <p>Using previously untapped sources, acclaimed biographer Greg King presents a complete and, for the first time, sympathetic portrait of the Duchess that sifts the decades of rumor and accusation to reveal the woman behind the legend. From her birth in Pennsylvania during the Gilded Age to her death in Paris in 1986, King takes the reader through a world of privilege, palaces, high society, and love with the accompaniment of hatreds, feuds, conspiracies, and lies. The cast of characters is vast: politicians and presidents, dictators and socialites. Twenty-four pages of photographs reveal the life of the Duchess in all its incomparable glamour and romance.</p> <p><b>Greg King's</b> biographies <i>The Last Empress, The Man Who Killed Rasputin,</i> and <i>The Mad King</i> have been universally acclaimed and internationally published. He lives in Everett, Washington.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-02-03 20:00:02. http://slc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=ac7080c5-0ff1-472f-9517-e992fe09218d http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1142-1/AC7/080/C5/DuchessOfWindsor9780806535210.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AC7080C5-0FF1-472F-9517-E992FE09218D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1142-1/AC7/080/C5/DuchessOfWindsor9780806535210.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AC7080C5-0FF1-472F-9517-E992FE09218D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1142-1/AC7/080/C5/DuchessOfWindsor9780806535210.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AC7080C5-0FF1-472F-9517-E992FE09218D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)