"A King'S Story The Memoirs Of The Duke Of Windsor."
On 10 December 1936, Edward VIII executed an Instrument of Abdication which was given legal effect the following day, when Edward gave Royal Assent to His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act, by which Edward VIII and any children he might have were excluded from succession to the throne. The Duke Of Windsor tells with candour, and moving simplicity the whole dramatic story of his life from early childhood until the day when he set sail from Britain in voluntary exile. The record of the early, formative years of the Duke's life leads up to the assumption of the tremendous responsibility of the Crown, and in a king's own vivid phrases the reader is given a unique insight into the routine, day by day duties that devolve upon a king.
Ten months of kingship and steadily mounting tension followed the Accession before, with bewildering suddenness, the new King's friendship with Mrs. Wallis Simpson precipitated the greatest constitutional crisis of the time. Much has been said and written by the individuals who took a greater or lesser part in the crisis of the Abdication or thought themselves fitted to comment upon it. Now His Royal Highness has considered that the time has come to tell his own story of the momentous events with which others have made so free
Whatever his views on this crisis at the time or since, there can be no one in the Empire who will not wish to read the account which the main actor, the Central figure, has set down.
Hardcover without DJ. 1951. ASIN: B000LRDQM6.
Previous owner’s sticker on endpaper. Very minor shelf wear. Otherwise, like new inside.