The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication

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Ny bok om forholdet mellom Edvard VII og Wallis Simpson - med nye arkivfunn som kaster lys over det politiske spillet som tvang den Britiske kongen til å abdisere. Fra baksiden: «December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charles I. The ruling monarch, Edward VIII, wished to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson and crown her as his Queen. His actions scandalised the Establishment, who were despe...Vis mer