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27. Apr. 2021 · The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman St. Martin’s Press. H.L. Mencken called it “the best story since the Resurrection,” while others thought it the most shameful episode in the long history of the English monarchy. The abdication of King Edward VIII in the dreary winter of 1936 is a story replete with ...
5. Jan. 2016 · Edmund though died shortly afterwards, and at his death, Cnut succeeded to the kingdom of England. At Cnut’s death, another succession dispute erupted between the sons of Cnut’s first wife, Aeflgifyu of Northampton, and those of his second wife, Aethelred’s widow, Emma. In that dispute, Edward’s brother, Alfred, was murdered, perhaps at ...
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1. Nov. 2022 · Crown in Crisis: Abdication: Directed by Danielle Winter. With Lucy Brown, Duke of Windsor, Alexander Larman, Ed Owens. After ruling for less than one year, Edward VIII became the first British monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne.
Alexander Larman’s The Crown in Crisis will treat listeners to a new, thrilling view of this legendary story. Informed by revelatory archival material never-before-seen, as well as by interviews with many of Edward’s and Wallis’s close friends, Larman creates an hour-by-hour, day-by-day suspenseful narrative that brings listeners up to the point where the microphone is turned on and the ...
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Hardcover – 8 September 2020. In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charles I. The ruling monarch, Edward VIII, wished to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson and crown her as his Queen. His actions scandalised the Establishment, who ...
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Alexander Larman’s The Crown in Crisis will treat readers to a new, thrilling view of this legendary story. Informed by revelatory archival material never-before-seen, as well as by interviews with many of Edward’s and Wallis’s close friends, Larman creates an hour-by-hour, day-by-day suspenseful narrative that brings readers up to the point where the microphone is turned on and the king ...
