King Edward VIII: The definitive portrait of the Duke of Windsor

A “compulsively readable” (The Sunday Times) biography of Edward VIII, the first British monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne, from the acclaimed author of Diana Cooper and Mountbatten

“Almost breathtaking in its candor . . . [a] shrewdly judged, highly polished, and totally riveting book.”—The New Yorker

He was the twentieth century’s Prince Charming. Handsome, elegant, quick-witted, charismatic, and an intimate friend of the most powerful and brilliant people of his day, he had everyt...