Ziegler has told Edward's story with consummate skill, tact and judgment.

'A masterpiece.' - The Times Literary Supplement (London) shrewdly judged, highly polished, and totally riveting book.' - The New Yorker It is judicious, comprehensive and based on. 'A book of such compelling interest and frankness that it is difficult to put down.' - The New York Times The best life of the monarch is Philip Ziegler's official biography, King Edward VIII (London: Collins, 1990). It is a story as compelling as the greatest English novels.

Buy a discounted Paperback of King Edward VIII online from. 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. Booktopia has King Edward VIII, The Definitive Portrait of the Duke of Windsor by Philip Ziegler. 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. Author: Ziegler, Philip, 1929- Format: Book xiv, 654 p., 48 p.

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. Available in the National Library of Australia collection. He was the twentieth century's Prince Charming.

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