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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
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
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
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
Clementine Churchill, wife to Winston
Randolph Churchill, her son
Lady Maud Emerald Cunard, society hostess and German sympathiser
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