Royally Exiled
Aug 17, 2021
3 minutes
SOME PARTICULARLY OBSESSIVE readers of this magazine might remember that a year ago our Recommended Read was a book about Edward VIII’s abdication in 1936. Now, Andrew Lownie explains what happened next—and the results aren’t always pretty.
As the title suggests, Lownie’s main contention is that Edward’s pro-German attitudes in the 1930s weren’t simply a question of a naïve determination to avoid war. Instead, they stemmed from a mixture of personal ambition and genuine ideology (even after the war, Edward would tell
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