Traitor King

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile

Traitor King
Andrew Lownie
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 432pg
12 May 2022 UK
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9781788704878
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Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the former king was kept in exile, feuding with his family over status for his wife, Wallis Simpson, and denied any real job. Drawing on extensive research into hitherto unused archives and Freedom of Information requests, it makes the case that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were not the naive dupes of the Germans but actively intrigued against Britain in both war and peace. It reveals:- the story behind the German attempts to recruit the Duke as a British Petain in the summer of 1940. - the efforts, by Churchill in particular, to prevent post-war publication of the captured German documents which detailed the Duke' s Nazi intrigues. - the reasons why the Duke, as Governor of the Bahamas, tried to shut down the investigation into the 1943 murder of his close friend Harry Oakes. - the full extent of the feud with the British Royal Family, based on his betrayals going back to his dishonesty about his true financial position at the time of the Abdication. - that far from a love story, Wallis felt trapped in a marriage she had never wanted with a pathetic and suffocating husband, one of the reasons she took several lovers, including the gay playboy Jimmy Donahue. Traitor King tells the story of a royal exiled with his wife, turning his back on duty, his family and using his position for financial gain
Praise for The Mountbattens: ' Impressively well-researched. . . a fresh and dispassionate look' - Daily Mail, biography of the year' Dares to go where no other Mountbatten biography has gone before' - The Lady ' A complex story, beautifully written - which never felt less like a history lesson, but I learned so much' - Anne Sebba
Andrew Lownie was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was Dunster History Prizeman and President of the Union, before taking his Masters and doctorate at Edinburgh University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and former visiting fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, he has run his own literary agency since 1988. A trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information and President of The Biographers Club, he has written for the Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Spectator and Guardian and formerly served in the Royal Naval Reserve.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781788704878
Published: 12 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: BLINK Publishing
Publisher: Bonnier Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 362g
Pages: 432

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