Prisoner of the King: The Story of Mrs. Simpson

Author: (English) Hemingway
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The love story between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess is considered one of the greatest love stories of the 20th century. This book tells the classic story of how a bastard girl from Baltimore, USA, rose to become the lover of the British King and consequently led to the King's abdication. What made such a humble, poor, and unremarkable-looking bastard girl win immense wealth, supreme honor, and the King's lifelong love, bringing her just one step away from the British throne? Despite lacking conventional beauty, she possessed unique taste and radiated genuine personal charm. She was strong-willed and worked hard to overcome her shortcomings. She saw herself as an explorer, a woman who could not only control herself but also dominate everything in a man's world, and she was proud of it. She is not a character that can be understood from a single perspective. The book's appeal also lies in the inclusion of newly released exclusive files from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, which gradually shed light on the complex private life of this controversial woman and revealed some secrets of the British royal family. This international bestseller has been reviewed and supplemented by the author and is published in China for the first time. It is a captivating work, sometimes even shocking.