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Hardcover – 8 September 2020. In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charles I. The ruling monarch, Edward VIII, wished to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson and crown her as his Queen. His actions scandalised the Establishment, who ...
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9 lug 2020 · Alexander Larman's latest book, The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown, was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in March 2023. It is the sequel to The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication, which was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in July 2020 and received critical acclaim in both the UK and US and was named by the Times, Daily Mail and Daily Express as one of the best ...
- Alexander Larman
convincing fashion, ‘The Crown In Crisis’ is something rather special, certainly the best book about the abdication that I can remember reading. And all the parallels between Wallis and Edward and Meghan and Harry - left implicit by Larman, apart from an amusing allusion in the acknowledgements - make it all the more delicious to savour
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27 apr 2021 · After King George V’s death, Prince Edward (“David” to his intimates) watched from St. James Palace as the accession proclamation was read out on January 22, 1936. He was not alone, however. In attendance was Wallis Simpson, a married American woman (once divorced and soon to be twice) who saw in Edward her key to wealth, glamour, and a life of ease.
Crown in Crisis: Abdication. After ruling for less than one year, Edward VIII became the first British monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne. On December 11th, 1936, Edward gave a radio address to the public, in which he explained his reasoning for leaving the throne. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to ...
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22 ago 2023 · The Balmoral summit is expected to occur sometime before September 8, which is the one-year anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's death and the King's accession to the throne.
The Crown is a historical drama television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix. [3] Morgan developed the series from his film The Queen (2006) and his stage play The Audience (2013), which also focus on Elizabeth.
