Windsor Story: An Intimate Portrait of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson By the Authors Who Knew Them Best

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1979. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. 4th printing. Faint spots along top edge, board edges a bit faded. 1979 Hard Cover. 639 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs."The Windsor Story sweeps the reader up into a saga embracing two World Wars, the roaring twenties, the decadent cafe society of the fifties, and a score of personalities ranging from Cecil Beaton to Adolf Hitler, with major appearances by Winston Churchill, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Queen Mary, the present Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, and the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is above all enthralling history, shedding new light on who made the decisions that led to disaster, the court intrigue that swirled around the Abdication (a Watergate-sized foul-up), the gulling of the British press by Lord Beaverbrook, and the royal family's vindictive behavior, which drove the Windsors into the arms of the Nazis and other unsavory and dangerous connections that were to mar their lifelong exile.