236: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Edward’s Early Loves

The future Edward VIII at Waikiki Beach, Honolulu in 1920
The future Edward VIII at Waikiki Beach, Honolulu in 1920. Public Domain.

 

In this week’s exciting episode of our Wallis, Duchess of Windsor series, we change the focus to the Prince of Wales. With a complicated childhood without a whole lot of family love, you can see how it would be easy for David to be swayed by romance. He does this romance dance quite a lot – sometimes with suitable girls, sometimes not. In this episode, we will explore a few of David’s first loves, including Marion Coke, Lady Sybil Cadogan, Marguerite Alibert, and Rosemary Leveson-Gower. No gal is going to ever be good enough for David at this time, at least according to his royal family. Also, there is a little blackmail and murder thrown into the mix too.

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Sources

Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson by Paul French (Amazon)

The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson by Anna Pasternak (Amazon)

That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba (Amazon)

Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor by Andrew Lownie (Amazon)

The Duchess of Windsor by Greg King (Amazon)

The Windsor Story by J. Bryan III and Charles J.V. Murphy (Amazon)

Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy by Andrew Morton (Amazon)

King Edward VIII: A Biography by Philip Ziegler (Amazon)

Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII by Jane Marguerite Tippett (Amazon)

The Heart Has Its Reasons by Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (Amazon)

The Duchess of Windsor: Memoirs of a Friend by Diana Mosley (Amazon)

Dancing with the Devil: The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue by Christopher Wilson (Amazon)

The Prince, The Princess and the Perfect Murder by Andrew Rose (Amazon)

Before Wallis: Edward VIII’s Other Women by Rachel Trethewey (Amazon)

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