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Did the people want Wallis? This book argues that Edward VIII need never have abdicated. Andrew Roberts is not convinced
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The People's King: The True Story of the Abdication
by Susan Williams
Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, pounds 16.99, 374 pp
pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
BACK IN January this year the Public Record Office released
hundreds of files relating to the Abdication Crisis of 1936, and the
historical advisor to this important event was the University of
London historian Susan Williams. Having been there, I can attest to
her diligence and scholarship on that occasion, and this book is
based on the work she has done on that vast labyrinth of
documentation.
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