Inside the secret world of the royal adviser who wished Edward VIII dead ; The Monday Book

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: December 11, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

KING'S COUNSELLOR

Edited by Duff Hart-Davis

WEIDENFELD, [pound]25.

These diaries of Sir Alan - "Tommy" - Lascelles, private secretary to George VI, are packaged as a book on "Abdication and War". But on the abdication, they are unreliable, judging by the recent release of government records at the National Archives. On war, any secret material has already become public knowledge. Yet they offer genuine insights into the role of the King's adviser.

Lascelles loathed the Duke of Windsor. "I can't help thinking," he reports telling Baldwin in 1927, "that the best thing that could happen to him, ...

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