Traitor King

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 Lady'A complex story, beautifully written - which never felt less like a history lesson, but I learned so much' - Anne Sebba11 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...