An explosive biography, substantially updated with fascinating new material about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

The romance of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor has been called the greatest love story of the twentieth century. However with the first edition of this biography in 1988, highly acclaimed author Charles Higham used explosive secret intelligence files to reveal a far darker side to their forty-year relationship. Now the author has re-visited and updated his international bestseller, resulting in a fascinating, and at times shocking exposé of Wallis Simpson. New and disturbing revelations have come to light, adding to the now classic story of an illegitimate child from Baltimore who rose to become the mistress of the king of England and brought about his abdication. Wallis gained control of the Monarch through sexual techniques learned in China, but risked losing everything through a reckless, long-term affair with William Bullitt, US Ambassador to France. Newly released FBI files demonstrate, as no other source has done, the extent of the Duchess’s espionage activities and how she conspired against Britain in the interest of Hitler. This is an intimate and extraordinary account of the woman who very nearly became the Queen of England.

http://www.panmacmillan.com/book/charleshigham/mrssimpson

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Pressman uses the same phrase as the book blurb, “reckless, long-term affair”.

I recently listened to a BBC radio play from 2007, ‘Harpo Goes to Leningrad’. It’s not worth tracking down – gratuitously anti-Third Reich as well as all else you’d expect from the BBC when it dares veer close to politics. But causally thrown out amidst the rest was the claim that William C. Bullitt (the C for Christian, for effect I suppose), who features as a character in the play, later engaged in a reckless long-term affair with the Duchess of Windsor.

It’s a working hypothesis of mine that Edward VIII, because of his patriotism, his allied concern for the working man, his allied pro-Third Reich sympathies, was removed from office by a conspiracy, and for a few years I have been collecting all relevant evidence that would tend to prove or disprove that hypothesis. The standard history of the abdication crisis is obvious nonsense on several counts, so it’s known to be a question of what *really* went on.

The Bulliitt / Windsor affair is a new twist for me, and was not backed up by my google searches, but is obviously potentially relevant to my studies. So if anyone has any info, it would be much appreciated.

Most history students would probably protest that Charles I, king of England (1625-49) etc., was murdered, but they probably do not know the details of how the Jews used Cromwell to trump up charges against the sovereign, and how Dutch Jews were the power behind Cromwell.