![]() ![]() Ziegler has told Edward's story with consummate skill, tact and judgment. "A masterpiece." - The Times Literary Supplement (London) Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London JOHN RAMSDEN. shrewdly judged, highly polished, and totally riveting book." - The New Yorker In this masterly authorized biography, Philip Ziegler reveals the complex personality of Edward VIII, the only British monarch to have voluntarily renounced. "A book of such compelling interest and frankness that it is difficult to put down." - The New York Times He was chosen as official biographer of Edward VIII, for which he was. It is a story as compelling as the greatest English novels. Philip Sandeman Ziegler CVO FRSL (24 December 1929 22 February 2023) was a British. Drawing on Edward's extremely frank and explicit diaries and his two thousand love letters (long assumed to have been destroyed), Ziegler shows us the man he truly was. In this superbly written biography, Philip Ziegler, author of the highly praised biographies Diana Cooper and Mountbatten paints a graceful, balanced, and utterly mesmerizing portrait of the life and times of Edward VIII. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, a mere eleven months after becoming King, Edward VIII threw everything away to marry the woman he loved-Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee. Handsome, elegant, quick-witted, charismatic, and an intimate friend of the most powerful and brilliant people of his day, he had everything youth and beauty could hope for-including fabulous wealth and claim to the English throne. He was the twentieth century's Prince Charming. ![]()
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