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After my death, George V said of his eldest son and heir, the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.The forecast proved uncannily accurate. Edward VIII came to the throne in January 1936, provoked a constitutional crisis by his determination to marry the American divorce Wallis Simpson, and abdicated in December. He was never crowned king.In choosing the woman he loved over his royal birthright, Edward shook the monarchy to its foundations. Given the new title Duke of Windsor and essentially sent into exile, he remained a visible skeleton in the royal cupboard until his death in 1972 and he haunts the house of Windsor to this day.Drawing on unpublished material, notably correspondence with his most loyal (though much tried) supporter Winston Churchill, Piers Brendons superb biography traces Edwards tumultuous public and private life from bright young prince to troubled sovereign, from wartime colonial governor to sad but glittering expatriate. With pace and panache, it cuts through the myths that still surround this most controversial of modern British monarchs.

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Piers Brendon

EDWARD VIII
The Uncrowned King
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First published 2016 Copyright Piers Brendon 2016 Cover design by Pentagram - photo 4

First published 2016

Copyright Piers Brendon, 2016

Cover design by Pentagram
Jacket art by Mads Berg

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ISBN: 978-0-241-19642-7

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THE HOUSES OF WESSEX AND DENMARK

AthelstanTom Holland
Aethelred the UnreadyRichard Abels
CnutRyan Lavelle
Edward the ConfessorJames Campbell

THE HOUSES OF NORMANDY, BLOIS AND ANJOU

William IMarc Morris
William IIJohn Gillingham
Henry IEdmund King
StephenCarl Watkins
Henry IIRichard Barber
Richard IThomas Asbridge
JohnNicholas Vincent

THE HOUSE OF PLANTAGENET

Henry IIIStephen Church
Edward IAndy King
Edward IIChristopher Given-Wilson
Edward IIIJonathan Sumption
Richard IILaura Ashe

THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK

Henry IVCatherine Nall
Henry VAnne Curry
Henry VIJames Ross
Edward IVA. J. Pollard
Edward VThomas Penn
Richard IIIRosemary Horrox

THE HOUSE OF TUDOR

Henry VIISean Cunningham
Henry VIIIJohn Guy
Edward VIStephen Alford
Mary IJohn Edwards
Elizabeth IHelen Castor

THE HOUSE OF STUART

James IThomas Cogswell
Charles IMark Kishlansky
[CromwellDavid Horspool]
Charles IIClare Jackson
James IIDavid Womersley
William III & Mary IIJonathan Keates
AnneRichard Hewlings

THE HOUSE OF HANOVER

George ITim Blanning
George IINorman Davies
George IIIAmanda Foreman
George IVStella Tillyard
William IVRoger Knight
VictoriaJane Ridley

THE HOUSES OF SAXE-COBURG & GOTHA AND WINDSOR

Edward VIIRichard Davenport-Hines
George VDavid Cannadine
Edward VIIIPiers Brendon
George VIPhilip Ziegler
Elizabeth IIDouglas Hurd
1 Royal Destiny Edward VIII reigned for less than a year and was never crowned - photo 6
1 Royal Destiny Edward VIII reigned for less than a year and was never crowned - photo 7
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Royal Destiny

Edward VIII reigned for less than a year and was never crowned king. Far from fulfilling the splendid destiny proclaimed as his birthright, he shook the Windsor dynasty, newly established in 1917, by abdicating to marry the divorced woman he loved. The event had been foretold in two memorable prophecies. The first was by the pioneer socialist Keir Hardie. It was provoked by Parliaments refusal to add to its congratulatory address on the birth of Prince Edward, which took place on 23 June 1894, an expression of sympathy for more than 250 Welsh miners killed in a colliery explosion on the same day. Hardie declared, amid cries of Oh! Oh! and Order!, that from childhood

this boy will be surrounded by sycophants and flatterers by the score and will be taught to believe himself as of a superior creation In due course he will be sent on a tour round the world, and probably rumours of a morganatic alliance will follow, and the end of it all will be the country will be called upon to pay the bill.

Edwards father, plagued in his final years by worries about his sons infatuation, was equally prescient. Where others Certainly Edwards renunciation of the throne damaged the monarchy. It led to a schism between the Duke of Windsor, as Edward then became, and the new sovereign, his brother George VI. It made divorce such a royal taboo that Princess Margaret was unable to wed the man of her choice in 1955 and a generation later it cast a long shadow over Prince Charless marital affairs. It also put a premium on sovereign responsibility and propriety, as embodied by Queen Elizabeth II. Her reign, like that of her father, can be seen as an attempt to exorcize the ghost of the abdication. Only a lifetime dedicated to duty could efface memories of Edward VIIIs short, unhappy kingship. It was the louring meridian in a career whose morning was golden and whose afternoon was leaden.

The pit disaster aside, the auguries could hardly have been more favourable at Edwards nativity. He was the great-grandson of Queen Victoria and, as the eldest son of the Duke of York, the heir to Edward (VII) Prince of Wales, he stood in direct line of succession to the throne. The queen herself was not only the grandmother of Europe, her descendants dominating the courts of the continent, but the Empress of India, presiding over a Greater Britain on which the sun never set. As the first industrial nation and a commercial colossus with a pre-eminent navy, her tiny offshore island was the greatest power on earth. At home she basked in the quasi-religious loyalty of her people. And when the queens might and majesty were celebrated at her Golden and Diamond Between these two patriotic festivals Edward was born at White Lodge, Richmond Park, the home of his mothers parents, the Duke and Duchess of Teck. A month later, in the presence of the queen and many notabilities, he was baptized by the Archbishop of Canterbury from a golden bowl of Jordan water, and christened Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David. The first three names identified him with royal relations while the last four were those of the patron saints of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The princes arrival was greeted with expressions of joy and devotion in all corners of the United Kingdom, echoed throughout the empire. Clergymen attributed the glorious summer to the advent of this son of York.

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