Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor | 
#12BooksOf2024 My pick for June is this brilliant NF about what the Duke & Duchess of Windsor got up to after his abdication just before WWII. I knew bits and pieces, but I was shocked by quite a bit of it. How deep it went with the Nazis in particular. Highly recommend, the author is a terrific writer. I‘ll be reading his book about the Mountbattens next.
pickBk3 of June is done. The 2nd Royal NF I was tandem reading was a much better experience, reading wise. This couple was once again, awful people. The Duke was absolutely in the grip of Wallis, and had no thought for anything but her. The damage they did could have been catastrophic, not just to Britain, but the whole world if they‘d been able to help the Third Reich as they‘d planned. Even after the war, tried to finagle their way back into power👇
I‘m after recces for really good NF about WW2 drama and intrigue from the Brits,inspired by this brilliant book about the abdicated Duke & Duchess of Windsor and their many & convoluted ties to Hitler & Nazi Germany from before the war till the fall of the Reich. From their friendship(or affairs with)Ribbentrop(diplomat then Foreign Minister to Nazi Germany)to their agreement to be reinstated as King under a Fascist Govt when Hitler won the war.👇
Bk3 of my recent #BookMail is another #RoyalMail book! I saw an interview with this author by Andrew Gold on YT & he said the Govt tried to block him accessing info for his research on the next book up. The above book is about QEII uncle, who abdicated for his lover & forced her father to take a throne he did not want. Then him & his new wife aligned themselves with the fascist govt rising in Germany ie: Hitler. One of the OG Royal Scandals!
Been in a reading slump. Stumbled across a new to me biography about Wallis Simpson. Think this should get me out of the winter blues.
Is anyone else watching the final season of THE CROWN? I‘ve been slowly watching each episode but who am I kidding? I‘m going to binge the rest in about 2 hours!
There have been several book compilations for those that would like more after completing the series. I was surprised this book wasn‘t mentioned. It‘s so good and juicy, and it helped me understand episode 3 100%! Give it a shot while it‘s still on #hoopla
pick“Can you imagine a more terrible fate than to have to live up publicly to the legend of a love you don‘t feel? To have to face morning, noon, and night, a middle-aged boy with no other purpose in life than a possessive passion for you?”
Truly awful people that were fun to read about! It was always my impression that they were broke because of the cheap stunts they pulled. Alas, no. They were just greedy! #hoopla
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Wallis Simpson managing to be unlikable even when the victim of a robbery:
“When asked what jewellery she had been wearing that night, Wallis replied, as if perfectly obvious, ‘A fool would know that with tweeds or other daytime clothes one wears gold, and that with evening clothes one wears platinum.'“
#SundaySentence
On Friday 11 December 1936, the final vote on the Abdication Bill was passed in Parliament and Edward VIII ceased to be king. He had reigned for 326 days. His father‘s premonition that within twelve months of his death his son would ‘ruin himself‘ had come true.
#FridayReads #FirstLineFridays
pickThis is a fascinating read. Whatever you thought of the Duke and Duchess before - and my opinion of them was not high - by the end I‘m fairly sure you‘ll have discovered that they were even more awful than you knew. And not just because they were in cahoots with the nazis - and that would be enough - but also because they treat everyone around them so appallingly.
