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Mrs Simpson (Hardcover)

by Charles Higham (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 656 pages
  • Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd (1 Oct 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0283073829
  • ISBN-13: 978-0283073823
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15 x 5.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 511,732 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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An enthralling and jaw-dropping read. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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The romance of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor has been called the greatest love story of the 20th Century. But with the recent release of previously declassified secret intelligence files and extensive research by the author Charles Higham, a darker side to their forty-year relationship has since been uncovered. Wallis throws new light on how without the aid of beauty, money or background the illegitimate Bessie Wallis Warfield from Baltimore came to marry the world's most eligible bachelor. It reveals how the amorous techniques she learnt in China awakened the Duke's dormant sexuality and left him helpless in her power and details her involvement in international espionage, to include her treacherous attempts to bring about the fall of Britain to Hitler. But, most sensationally of all, it provides a new insight into her recently disclosed love affairs, including the motor salesman Guy Marcus Trundle, and provides a wealth of information about the government, the royal family and the secret intelligence service all of which has recently become available to author Charles Higham since the book's first publication.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars mrs simpson, 25 Jun 2005
By ms p c brannen (N.E. england) - See all my reviews
A really gripping read. The contents made me feel as all these events were happening right now.My original interest in the royal couple had been focused on thier 'romantic' courtship and marriage. With so much more information on this and thier subsequent lives building up to and during the second world war and afterwards, I feel now as though I know them very well. This however is not a good feeling! Two of the 'beautiful people' they may have been on the outside but on the inside they seemed to have been quite repellent.
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2.0 out of 5 stars oh he of the semi-colon!!, 30 Nov 2008
By Ms. Ce Hooper (south africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mrs Simpson: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor (Paperback)
how sad!!!! the subject has to be one of the most richly complex; paradox-saturated and intriguing figures of recent history - guided under the pen of a master biographer, Mrs Simpson's life; her persona; her ultimate infamy might have been truly captured.......
normally I read with ease; this book had me champing at the bit - as I can only best describe how I felt throughout the read without blaspheming!!
the only way I was able to endure each lengthy page was by means of a self-asembled mantra, it goes like this; " Higham, oh ye of the semi-colon!! how would you have managed to write this without it?"
my review of this book is solely around the writer's apparent inability to write in reader-friendly English. His writing reminded me of the inevitable process of academic reading:'read; re-read; re-read a number of times...until finally it all makes sense!
what a relief it is for me to have had a Hugo Vickers as the next on my list of books to read...how refreshing; how stimulating; how interesting it is to be reading his account of Princess Andrew of Greece.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Hard work for little reward...., 19 Feb 2009
By M. Taylor (Doncaster, UK) - See all my reviews
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I wish I had read Ms Hooper's review before buying and reading this poorly written biog. Some interesting 'facts' but one's faith in the author's accuracy is diminished by the number of assertions about what characters "must have thought" at various times. Like many royal biographers, the author seems to be in awe of the institution of monarchy, if not of his subject. Sadly this seems to apply to Americans too, from whom we might have hoped for a more detached point of view. A(nother) missed opportunity.
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