Description: A King's Story The Memoirs of HRH The Duke of Windsor 1951 Hardback 2nd Edition, includes 22 pages of gravure illustrations. Condition is good, DJ has edgewear, some tears and a piece missing on the rear. Name written on EP, rest of pages clean no writing or tears, sent Royal Mail Second Class. IN HIS MEMOIRS, H.R.H. THE DUKE OF WINDSOR tells with candour and moving simplicity the whole dramatic story of his life from early childhood until the day when he set sail from Britain in voluntary exile. The record of the early, formative years of the Duke's life leads up to the assumption of the tremendous responsibility of the Crown, and in a king's own vivid phrases the reader is given a unique insight into the routine, day by day duties that devolve upon a king. Ten months of kingship and steadily mounting tension followed the Acces- sion before, with bewildering sudden- ness, the new King's friendship with Mrs. Wallis Simpson precipitated the greatest constitutional crisis of our time. Much has been said and written by the individuals who took a greater or lesser part in the crisis of the Abdication or thought themselves fitted to comment upon it. Now His Royal Highness has considered that the time has come to tell his own story of the momentous events with which others have made so free Whatever his views on this crisis at the time or since, there can be no one in the Empire who will not wish to read the account which the main actor, the Central figure, has set down.
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardback
Non-Fiction Subject: Biographies & True Stories
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: HRH The Duke of Windsor
Original/Reproduction: Original
Publisher: Cassell
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Year Printed: 1951
