Dimensions
141 x 219 x 36mm
Seventy-five years after the momentous events of the last weeks of 1936, controversy still surrounds the abdication of Edward VIII. Was he a weak and misguided playboy, manipulated by a wily American divorcee? Or was this a king whose relaxed informality and concern for ordinary people so thoroughly unsettled the Establishment that his love for Wallis Simpson provided them with the perfect excuse to manoeuvre him off the throne?
'The People's King' recounts the last weeks of Edward's reign, beginning with his decisive tour of the Welsh Valleys when he declared that "something must be done". Edward's love affair with Wallis was still a closely guarded secret. But within a week it would dominate the headlines of newspapers around the world and be the main topic of conversation at every tea table and pub throughout the land, throwing Britain and the Empire it ruled into a crisis that shook their very foundations.
