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Cover of Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

✍ Scribed by Anna Pasternak


Book ID
100287488
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward’s life? Amid the cacophony of condemnation her story has become obfuscated. Untitled is an intimate biography of one of the most misunderstood women in British royal history. His charisma and glamour ensured him the status of a rock star prince. Yet Edward gave up the British throne, the British Empire and his position as Emperor of India, to marry his true love, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. So much gossip and innuendo has been levelled at Wallis Simpson that it has become nearly impossible to discern the real woman. Many have wondered why, when Edward could have had anyone he desired, he was smitten with this unusual American woman. As her friend Herman Rogers said to her in 1936 when news of her affair with Edward broke: ’Much of what is being said concerns a woman who does not exist and never did exist.’ History is mostly perceived from the perspective of...


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