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The next volume in Alexander Larmans biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to war with Adolf Hitlerand each other.
At the beginning of 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI, surrounded by a gaggle of courtiers and politicians who barely thought him up to the job. Meanwhile, as the now-Duke of Windsor awaited the decree that would allow him to marry his mistress Wallis Simpson, he took an increased interest in the expansionist plans of Adolf Hitler. He may even have gone so far as to betray his country in the process. And as double agents and Nazi spies thronged the corridors of Buckingham Palace, the only man the King could trust was his Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. But they faced a formidable, even unbeatable, adversary: his own brother.
The Windsors at War tells the never-before-told story of World War Two in Britain and America with a fresh focus on the royal family, their conflicted relationships, and the events that rocked the international press. How did this squabbling, dysfunctional family manage to put their differences aside and unite to help win the greatest conflict of their lifetimes? Alexander Larman, author of The Crown in Crisis, now chronicles the Windsor family at war with Germanyand each other.

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For Alan Samson.

A god from afar looks graciously upon a gentle master.

Oh, brothers! I dont care for brothers. My elder brother wont die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brothers keeper?

Genesis 4:89

Royalty and their circle

George VI, King of the United Kingdom, the Dominions of the Commonwealth and Emperor of India

Queen Elizabeth, his wife

Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, their children

Edward, Duke of Windsor, former king and continued irritant

Wallis Windsor, his wife

Queen Mary, the royal mother

Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, her third son

Prince George, Duke of Kent, her youngest son

Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, his wife

Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, Queen Marys daughter

Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, Edwards cousin

Lord Mountbatten, Edwards cousin

Bessie Merryman, Walliss aunt

May Elphinstone, Queen Elizabeths sister

Sir Alec Hardinge, private secretary to George VI 193743

Helen Hardinge, his wife

Viscountess Milner, her mother

Sir Alan Tommy Lascelles, assistant private secretary to George VI 193743; private secretary 194352

Eric Miville, assistant private secretary to George VI 193645

Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Steward 193740

Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Lord Steward 19401964

Edward Fruity Metcalfe, confidant to the Duke of Windsor

Alexandra Baba Metcalfe, his wife

Albert AG Allen, solicitor to the Duke of Windsor

Sir Walter Monckton, lawyer and Director General of Propaganda and Information Services

David Storrier, bodyguard to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

Betty Lawson-Johnston, friend to the Duchess of Windsor and the Duke of Kent

Jack Lowther, the Duke of Kents private secretary

Military

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force

Lord Portal, Chief of the Air Staff 194046

Major General Sir Richard the Wombat Howard-Vyse, head of British Military Mission to French High Command 193940

Field Marshal Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff 193940

Lord Gort, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force in France 193940

Henry Pownall, his chief of staff

Field Marshal Alan Brooke, the prime ministers military adviser and Chief of the Imperial General Staff 19415

General Hastings Ismay, the prime ministers military assistant

Field Marshal Bernard Monty Montgomery, senior army officer

Sergeant Andrew Jack, sole survivor of the flight that killed the Duke of Kent

Infante Baby Bee Alfonso, Duke of Galliera, Spanish prince and aviator

Walter Schellenberg, SS Brigadefhrer and Nazi spymaster

Politicians

Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain 193740

Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty 193940; prime minister 194045

Clement Attlee, leader of the Labour Party 193745; deputy prime minister 194245; prime minister 194551

Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary 193840; British ambassador to the United States 194046

Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary 193738, 194045

Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer 193740; Lord High Chancellor 194045

Duff Cooper, First Lord of the Admiralty 193738; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 194143; British ambassador to France 194448

Lord Beaverbrook, newspaper magnate and variously Minister of Aircraft Production, Minister of Supply, Minister of War Production and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal

Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War 193740

Henry Margesson, Secretary of State for War 194042

Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air 194045

David Lloyd-George, former prime minister

Ramsay MacDonald, former prime minister

Oliver Stanley, politician, President of the Board of Trade 193740; Secretary of State for the Colonies 19425

Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs 193846

David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, former Conservative chief whip

Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary 193739; British ambassador to Spain 194044

Philip Kerr, Marquess of Lothian, British ambassador to the United States 193940

Sir Horace Wilson, senior civil servant, head of the civil service 193942

George Lloyd, Secretary of State for the Colonies 194041

Ernest Bevin, Labour politician, Foreign Secretary 194551

Robert Bob Boothby, Conservative politician

Henry Chips Channon, Conservative politician and diarist

Harold Nicolson, Conservative politician and diarist

Leo Amery, Conservative politician

Charles Dundas, Governor of the Bahamas 193240

Roundell Palmer, Minister for Economic Warfare 194245

Alexander Sanny Sloan, Labour politician

Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, Conservative politician

Sir Eric Phipps, British ambassador to France 193739

Sir Ronald Campbell, British ambassador to France 193940

Sir Nevile Henderson, British ambassador to Germany 193739

Sir Walford Selby, British ambassador to Portugal 193740

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States 193345

Eleanor Roosevelt, his wife

Harry S. Truman, American president 194553

Joseph Kennedy, American ambassador to Britain 193840

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI

Harry Hopkins, Roosevelts foreign policy adviser

John G. Winant, American ambassador to Britain 194146

Wendell Wilkie, presidential envoy and Republican presidential candidate

Adolf Hitler, Fhrer of Germany 193345

Rudolf Hess, deputy Fhrer 193341

Hermann Gring, Reichstag president 193245

Joachim von Ribbentrop, German ambassador to Britain 193638; Reichsminister of Foreign Affairs 193845

Reinhard Heydrich, the man with the iron heart

Konstantin von Neurath, German foreign minister 193238; Reich Protector of Czechoslovakia 193943

Julius Zech von Zech-Burkersroda, German ambassador to The Hague 192840

Fritz Hesse, press attach to the German embassy

Eberhard von Stohrer, German diplomat

Erich Pheiffer, German intelligence officer

Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Soviet Union

Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator

douard Daladier, French prime minister 193840

Philippe Ptain, chief of staff of Vichy France 194044

Ramn Serrano Suer, Spanish Minister of the Interior

Antnio de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese prime minister

Ren Massigli, French ambassador to the United Kingdom 194455

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Clementine Churchill, wife to Winston

Randolph Churchill, her son

Lady Maud Emerald Cunard, society hostess and German sympathiser

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