A King's Story - The Memoirs
Cassell and Company, 1951. This copy being #2 in an edition of 250, signed by the author. Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire on paper hand-made at Maidstone, Kent. Binding done by Sangorski & sutcliffe. "The autobiography of the late Duke of Windsor - great grandson of Queen Victoria, grandson of Edward VII, son of George V, and cousin of the German Emperor and the Czar of Russia. The book tells the story of the future king's early youth at Sandringham, his years at Naval School on the Isle of Wight, at Magdalen College, Oxford, in the army in World War I, and his tours of Canada, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Eventually he becomes king, on the death of his father. He defies the wishes of Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, when he insists on marrying Wallis Simpson, the future Duchess of Windsor. The book features his abdication, and his marriage." A fine copy in original slipcase. Two ex-libris for Roydon Charles Peden on front endpapare and ffep. Item #31298
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