There are two parts to this remarkable book. The first half dwells on the final years of the Duchess.  The story is based on a personal journey into the world of the Windsors in which Vickers quotes from nearly 40 years of his own diary entries.Mr. Vickers knows about these events because he knew many of the men and women who played a large part in Wallis Simpson Windsor's life. Confidential information was passed on to him out of trust.  The book's second half is a biography of Wallis Simpson, nee Warfield. Vickers delves into her family tree with his accustomed detail and gives a realistic account of the end of her marriage to Ernest Simpson. It is a story with a certain glamour and narrative rightness about it. The Windsors can be cast as the wrong but romantic counterpoint to their replacements, the dutiful but dowdy George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Or Wallis can be demonised as the femme fatale, the wicked American divorcee who "pinched our king". Neither of these variants will do for Vickers. He wants to get behind these images.

Hugo Vickers was born in 1951 and educated at Eton and Strasbourg University. His books include Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece; Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough; Cecil Beaton; Vivien Leigh; Loving Garbo; Royal Orders; The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; and The Kiss, which won the 1996 Stern Silver Pen for Non-fiction. He is an acknowledged expert on the royal family, appears regularly on television and has lectured all over the world.

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