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Search - The Real Wallis Simpson: A New History of the American Divorcée Who Became the Duchess of Windsor

The Real Wallis Simpson A New History of the American Divorce Who Became the Duchess of Windsor
Author: Anna Pasternak

Wallis Simpson is known as the woman at the center of the most scandalous love affair of the 20th century, but in this surprising new biography, bestselling author Anna Pasternak redeems a woman wronged by history with new information revealed by those who were close to the couple?presenting Wallis as a convenient scapegoat to rid England of a k... more »ing deemed unworthy to rule.

The story that has been told repeatedly is this: The handsome, charismatic, and popular Prince Edward was expected to marry a well-bred virgin who would one day become Queen of England when he ascended the throne. But when the prince was 37 years old, he fell in love with a skinny, divorced American woman?Wallis Simpson. No one thought the affair would last, and when the prince did become king, everyone assumed the affair would end.

But instead the new king announced he wanted to marry the American divorcee, and Wallis was accused of entrapping the prince in a seductive web in order to achieve her audacious ambition to be queen. After declaring that he could not rule without the woman he loved at his side, the king gave up his throne, and his family banished him and his new wife from England. The couple spent the rest of their days in exile, but happy in their devoted love for each other.

Now, Anna Pasternak?s The Real Wallis Simpson tells a different story: that Wallis was the victim of the abdication, not the villain. Warm, well-mannered, and witty, Wallis was flattered by Prince Edward?s attention, but like everyone else, she never expected his infatuation to last. She never wanted to divorce her second husband or marry Edward. She never anticipated his jealous, possessive nature?and his absolute refusal to let her go.

Edward?s true dark nature, however, was no secret to the royal family, the church or the Parliament; everyone close to Edward knew that beyond his charming façade, he was immature, self-absorbed, and uneducated?utterly unfit to rule. Wallis begged Edward to stay on the throne and let her go, foreseeing the verdict history would pass on her. Caught in Edward?s fierce obsession, she became the perfect scapegoat for those who wished to dethrone the king they feared to rule. On the night Wallis died, Princess Margaret told a friend, ?It wasn?t her we hated, it was him.?

Rejecting the sinister schemer at the center of a dark royal fairytale, Anna Pasternak reveals Wallis Simpson as an intelligent woman, written off by cunning, powerful men and forced into a life she never wanted in a complex, riveting, and tragic true story of manipulation and betrayal.

ISBN-13: 9781501198441
ISBN-10: 1501198440
Publication Date: 3/5/2019
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Atria Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 2
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Genres:

Biographies & Memoirs >> Historical >> United States
Biographies & Memoirs >> Historical >> Europe >> Great Britain
Biographies & Memoirs >> Leaders & Notable People >> Royalty
Biographies & Memoirs >> Specific Groups >> Women

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