Edward Viii
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few figures in British royal history have captivated and confounded the public imagination quite like Edward VIII, the king who surrendered his throne for love. Frances Donaldson's authoritative biography chronicles the life of Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David — from his gilded Edwardian upbringing as the nation's most glamorous Prince of Wales, through the glittering social world of the 1920s and 30s, to the seismic constitutional crisis of 1936, when his determination to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson forced an abdication that shook the British Empire to its foundations. Donaldson writes with the measured authority of a historian and the sharp eye of a biographer who had personal access to key figures of the era, and her portrait of Edward is unflinching — presenting not a romantic hero, but a complex, frustrating, and often contradictory man whose charm masked a troubling lack of moral and intellectual depth. Edward VIII stands as the definitive account of the abdication crisis, winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and essential reading for anyone who wonders how a king could walk away from a crown — and whether he ever truly understood what he had done.
Author: Frances Donaldson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few figures in British royal history have captivated and confounded the public imagination quite like Edward VIII, the king who surrendered his throne for love. Frances Donaldson's authoritative biography chronicles the life of Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David — from his gilded Edwardian upbringing as the nation's most glamorous Prince of Wales, through the glittering social world of the 1920s and 30s, to the seismic constitutional crisis of 1936, when his determination to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson forced an abdication that shook the British Empire to its foundations. Donaldson writes with the measured authority of a historian and the sharp eye of a biographer who had personal access to key figures of the era, and her portrait of Edward is unflinching — presenting not a romantic hero, but a complex, frustrating, and often contradictory man whose charm masked a troubling lack of moral and intellectual depth. Edward VIII stands as the definitive account of the abdication crisis, winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and essential reading for anyone who wonders how a king could walk away from a crown — and whether he ever truly understood what he had done.