Contents
Cover
Title Page
List of Illustrations
Preface
Family Tree
1 The Child
2 The Youth
3 ‘Oh!! That I Had a Job’
4 The Captain
5 L’Éducation Sentimentale
6 The Role of the Prince
7 The First Tours
8 India
9 ‘The Ambassador of Empire’
10 ‘Half Child, Half Genius’
11 ‘A Steady Decline’
12 The Last Years as Prince
13 Mrs Simpson
14 Accession
15 ‘The Most Modernistic Man in England’
16 The King and Mrs Simpson
17 The Last Weeks
18 Abdication
19 Exile
20 Married Life
21 The Duke in Germany
22 Second World War
23 Spain and Portugal
24 The Bahamas
25 The American Connection
26 What Comes Next?
27 ‘Some Sort of Official Status’
28 The Duke as Author
29 The Final Years
Nomenclature
Notes
Bibliographical Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Footnotes
Picture Section
About the Author
From the reviews of King Edward VIII
Copyright
About the Publisher