Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1455566977 ISBN13: 9781455566976 Release Date: February 2018 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Length: 416 Pages Weight: 1.45 lbs. Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0" For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne. "You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance." -- Wallis Simpson Before she became known as the woman who enticed a king from his throne and birthright, Bessie Wallis Warfield was a prudish and particular girl from Baltimore. At turns imaginative, ambitious, and spoiled, Wallis's first words as recalled by her family were "me, me." From that young age, she was in want of nothing but stability, status, and social acceptance as she fought to climb the social ladder and take her place in London society. As irony would have it, she wou