No one inside or outside the palace seems all too pleased in this continuing episode of our Wallis series. We are definitely on the countdown to the December 1936 abdication of Edward VIII, and the events of the summer and fall really turn up the temperature on the whole sordid mess.
David isn’t too keen on being the king. Neither are his advisors. A lot of folks would like to see David just walk away from the job. The one lone voice urging him to keep the gig was his lover, Wallis. She wants no part of any of this nonsense, but it seems any chance she had to leave her fate is long gone.
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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)