King Edward VIII. Philip Ziegler

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      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