THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR: THE SECRET LIFE

This is a first edition of The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life, written by the British writer Charles Higham and published in 1988. It was an enormous best-seller.

Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, was one of the most famous women in history, the American divorcee who captured the King of England, Edward VIII, and cost him his throne. Major new documentary evidence, classified at the time, from long-suppressed archives in France, England, and the United States, uncovers her passionate affair with a top-ranking political figure, the duke's romantic involvement with a male equerry, the secret radio broadcasts the couple made to Hitler, and the blackmail plot in Paris that almost brought them, and the British royal family, to ruin.

482 pages with numerous photographs.

This copy's dust jacket is white, so there is the expected yellowing of the paper. The mark on the top right of the dust jacket is remnants of the price tag. The paper of the book has darkened as well. The original owner wrote her name, in very small script, on the front endpaper. It is otherwise in perfect condition.