A biography of the most notorious member of the Cambridge Spy Ring describes how the charming but ruthlessly manipulative member of the British Intelligence Service provided Western secrets to Soviet
December 1936. The King of England, Edward VIII, has given up his Crown, foregoing his duty for the love of Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée. Their courtship has been dogged by controversy and scandal, but with Edward's abdication, they can live happily ever after.But do they? Beginning his astonishing biography at the moment most turn away, bestselling historian Andrew Lownie reveals the dramatic lives of the Windsors post-abdication. This is a story of a Royal shut out by his family and forced into exile; of the Nazi attempts to recruit the Duke to their cause, and of why the Duke, as Governor of the Bahamas, tried to shut down the investigation into the murder of a close friend. It is a story of a couple obsessed with their status, financially exploiting their position, and manipulating the media to portray themselves as victims.The Windsors were, in their day, the most glamorous exiles in the world, flitting from sumptuously appointed mansions in the south of France to
The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller'Richly entertaining' Book of the Week, Daily Mail'Incisive... strongly recommend' The Times'A study in aggressive social climbing [with] quick-moving fluency' Sunda
The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'Richly entertaining' Book of the Week, Daily Mail 'Incisive... strongly recommend' The Times 'A study in aggressive social climbing [with] quick-moving fluency' Su
Praise for The Mountbattens'Impressively well-researched... a fresh and dispassionate look' - Daily Mail, biography of the year'Dares to go where no other Mountbatten biography has gone before' - The
A long-forgotten promise made by Richard Hannay finds him honor-bound to resolve a violent vendetta in which the lives of a young father and his daughter are in danger from unscrupulous and desperate
