the abdication
Streamlined chic or lacy froth: royal style wars of the 1930s
Nothing signalled the personalities of the warring sisters-in-law more clearly than the contrasting fashion sense of Wallis Simpson and Queen Elizabeth
Did the Duchess of Windsor fake the theft of her own jewels?
When Wallis’s jewellery collection disappeared from under the bed one night in Surrey in 1946, was this a misfortune, or carelessness, or planned fraud?
The Duke of Windsor had much to be thankful for
Defending the ‘maligned’ Duke, Jane Marguerite Tippett fails to mention how hard officials worked to suppress evidence of his treachery and prevent a court martial in 1940
A delicate bargain
This very readable account of relations between the British intelligence services and the Crown does more than it says on…
Of cabbages and kings
Nigel Jones reviews the first five titles to appear in a new series on British monarchs
