Name/Title
Gone with the WindsorsEntry/Object ID
2023.87.1Description
Here is the story of the most celebrated couple of our time, seen in the glare of facts as the Duke and the Duchess made them. If it is an indictment, it is delivered in the Windsors' own words and actions If it is an exposé, it is the self-revelation of two people who have made it their business to expose their lives.[...] The idea of a king who defied an empire for "the woman he loved," and of the Cinderella girl who passed from a modest Baltimore house to the threshold of Buckingham Palace, would have made a glorious real-life story had the principal actors been worthy of it. But Iles Brody shows that there is no "Wallis in Wonder land" for history to record. Instead, we read in measured steps the tragic story of a man who failed to grasp the majesty that is England. It is poetic justice that this is also the story of a woman who, fully realizing England's majesty, saw her ambition thwarted by that weakness in the man she mastered. --Book flapInscription/Signature/Marks
Type
InscriptionLocation
Front flyleafTranscription
You are my dearest Royal Emelita. Love, Shelley. Noel, 1958.Language
EnglishMaterial/Technique
HandwrittenCreate Date
January 28, 2023
