The Duchess of Windsor The Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson

More than sixty years on, the relationship between King Edward VIII andallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American woman, remains one of theove affairs of the twentieth century. Its ability still to yield newensation and capture the front pages all over again has been demonstratednce more in recent weeks with the revelations of the Duchess's affair, oncehe King had abdicated to marry his mistress and become the Duke of Windsor,ith a car salesman allegedly called Guy Trundle. Wrongly blamed for thebdication crisis, Wallis Simpson suffered constant hostility from the Royalamily and much of the world, and a thinly-veiled animosity towards hernforms many accounts of her life. But Greg King has sifted through theecades of rumour and accusation to reveal the woman behind the legend. Theruth he discovers is infinitely more fascinating. Marshalling a huge arrayf documentation, including newly declassified papers in German militaryiles and the Public Records Office, as well as interviews with hundreds ofontemporary witnesses, he presents for the first time a complete and