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In Wallis in Love, acclaimed biographer Andrew Morton offers a fresh portrait of Wallis Simpson in all her vibrancy and brazenness as she transformed from a hard-nosed gold-digger to charming chatelaine. As irony would have it, she would gain the love and devotion of a king, but only at the cost of his throne and her reputation. From that young age, she was in want of nothing but stability, status, and social acceptance as she fought to climb the social ladder and take her place in London society. At turns imaginative, ambitious, and spoiled, Walliss first words as recalled by her family were me, me. Wallis Simpson Before she became known as the woman who enticed a king from his throne and birthright, Bessie Wallis Warfield was a prudish and particular girl from Baltimore. You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. N° de ref.Book Synopsis For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne.

With information from surviving contemporaries, Dancing with the Devil is the extraordinary tale of three remarkable people and their unique and twisted relationship. As Jimmy had planned, the royal couple became obsessed with him. Together with the Duke, they became an inseparable trio, the closest of friends. A burgeoning sexual relationship a perverse sort of love was formed between Jimmy and the Duchess. The Duchess was fifty-four, and despite the difference in age, there was an instant attraction. He was thirty-five when he was befriended by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1950. Though press agents arranged for him to be seen with female escorts, his pursuits, until he met the Duchess of Windsor, were exclusively homosexual. Gay at a time when the homosexual act was still illegal, Jimmy was notorious within America s upper class, and loved to shock. Instead, he set about carving for himself a career of mischief. Woolworth, Jimmy knew he would never need to work. People loved him for his wit, charm and personality. He could fly a plane, speak several languages, play the piano, and tell marvelous jokes. Blond and slender, Jimmy Donahue was the archetypal post-war playboy. Very few people suspected, and even fewer actually knew, that the Duchess cuckolded him and almost gave him up for a gay playboy twenty years her junior.

Edition 2001 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" The story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor is one of the most romantic of all time: Edward VIII abdicated his throne and gave up an empire so that he could marry the woman he loved, American divorcee Wallis Simpson.