King Edward VIII. Philip Ziegler

       King Edward VIII

      Philip Ziegler

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       List of Illustrations

       Preface

       Family Tree

       1 The Child

       2 The Youth

       3 ‘Oh!! That I Had a Job’

       4 The Captain

       5 L’Éducation Sentimentale

       6 The Role of the Prince

       7 The First Tours

       8 India

       9 ‘The Ambassador of Empire’

       10 ‘Half Child, Half Genius’

       11 ‘A Steady Decline’

       12 The Last Years as Prince

       13 Mrs Simpson

       14 Accession

       15 ‘The Most Modernistic Man in England’

       16 The King and Mrs Simpson

       17 The Last Weeks

       18 Abdication

       19 Exile

       20 Married Life

       21 The Duke in Germany

       22 Second World War

       23 Spain and Portugal

       24 The Bahamas

       25 The American Connection

       26 What Comes Next?

       27 ‘Some Sort of Official Status’

       28 The Duke as Author

       29 The Final Years

       Nomenclature

       Notes

       Bibliographical Notes

       Index

       Acknowledgments

       Footnotes

       Picture Section

       About the Author

       From the reviews of King Edward VIII

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

      List of Illustrations

      Princes Albert and Edward bathing at Cowes (Pasteur Institute)

      The Princess of Wales with Prince Edward (Al Fayed Archives)

      The Prince in formal dress (Sir Michael Thomas)

      Punting at Oxford (Sir Michael Thomas)

      The Prince on a route march (Al Fayed Archives)

      With the King’s Guard (Pasteur Institute)

      Portia Cadogan (Al Fayed Archives)

      Rosemary Leveson-Gower (Imperial War Museum)

      The Prince as Chief Morning Star (The Royal Collection © 2012)

      Freda Dudley Ward (Lady Laycock)

      Taking a jump successfully (Al Fayed Archives)

      Falling at the last fence (Al Fayed Archives)

      With Audrey Coates at Drummond Castle (Lady Alexandra Metcalfe)

      With the Duchess of York (Al Fayed Archives)

      Skiing with Prince George (Lady Alexandra Metcalfe)

      Mrs Simpson (Michael Bloch)

      The Duchess’s bedside snapshot of the Duke (Al Fayed Archives)

      Wedding photograph (Lady Alexandra Metcalfe)

      The Windsors in German (The Royal Collection © 2012)

      Dignitaries in Nassau (Al Fayed Archives)

      A visit to the