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Cargando... Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchypor Andrew Morton
   Books Read in 2018 (955) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  MaggieFlo | Feb 14, 2019 |   It was the future and short-lived role of King, that Edward clearly did not want. In many ways, Wallis helped rescue him, rather than how she is painted by many authors. He was a play boy who never really studied for the throne. His father in particular thought very little of him. When her father died, her mother had to scrimp to live. Relying on Wallis' Uncle Sol, it was he who paid for Wallis' boarding school tuition. Young when she was drawn to an air force pilot, she moved to Florida and tried to make a lonely life worth living. This husband was incredibly abusive. Living in an age when women took the blame when there was a divorce, Wallis tried hard to move up through the social classes. A second divorce occurred so that she could marry the King. She regretted this decision. Supremely unhappy together, Edward didn't want the throne, but life with Wallis was not something to relish. Three Stars Whisper1 | Jul 23, 2018 |  ) yukon92 | Jun 15, 2018 | Is this true or not, who knows? But is is a new twist on an oft-repeated tale. ( ) etxgardener | May 29, 2018 |  ) wagner.sarah35 | Apr 19, 2018 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne. "You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance." â?? Wallis Simpson Before she became known as the woman who enticed a king from his throne and birthright, Bessie Wallis Warfield was a prudish and particular girl from Baltimore. At turns imaginative, ambitious, and spoiled, Wallis's first words as recalled by her family were "me, me." From that young age, she was in want of nothing but stability, status, and social acceptance as she fought to climb the social ladder and take her place in London society. As irony would have it, she would gain the love and devotion of a king, but only at the cost of his throne and her reputation. In Wallis in Love, acclaimed biographer Andrew Morton offers a fresh portrait of Wallis Simpson in all her vibrancy and brazenness as she transformed from a hard-nosed gold-digger to charming chatelaine. Using diary entries, letters, and other never-before-seen records, Morton takes us through Wallis's romantic adventures in Washington, China, and her entrance into the strange wonderland that is London society. During her journey, we meet an extraordinary array of characters, many of whom smoothed the way for her dalliance with the king of England, Edward VIII. Wallis in Love goes beyond Wallis's infamous persona and reveals a complex, domineering woman striving to determine her own fate and grapple with matters of the hea No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It’s basically told in chronological order from her birth in Baltimore, Maryland, her school years, and dependence on her uncle Sol for a time. Her first marriage to Win Spencer, a naval officer was unhappy due to his alcoholism. Her marriage to Ernest Spencer, a shipping executive, was not much happier although it did provide a more comfortable home life. She and Spencer were able to travel and mingle in higher and higher social networks until they were within the royal network of Edward VIII (David, the Prince of Wales). She rubbed elbows with his mistresses and friends and finally managed to manipulate him into her web. He is portrayed as a weak, unintelligent, uninteresting push over who did very much love Wallis. She really only wanted to be Queen. She divorced Ernest, David abdicated, they were married became the Duke and Duchess of York but did not live happily ever after. They were shunned by the royal family and their life together was vacuous with their time spent travelling, entertaining, drinking, nagging and looking for a purpose. He died of throat cancer in 1972 and her health gradually declined until her death in 1986 in France. She is buried with her husband in England. (