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convincing fashion, ‘The Crown In Crisis’ is something rather special, certainly the best book about the abdication that I can remember reading. And all the parallels between Wallis and Edward and Meghan and Harry - left implicit by Larman, apart from an amusing allusion in the acknowledgements - make it all the more delicious to savour
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9 de jul. de 2020 · Excellent, well written, deeply researched, THE CROWN IN CRISIS is a dynamic revisionist history of the Abdication that brings to life a national and personal drama with a flamboyant cast of princes, charlatans, socialites, courtiers, press barons, politicians and adventurers that is both heartbreaking and glamorous, scholarly and very entertaining.
- Alexander Larman
5 de jan. de 2016 · A further fact relating to the possible designation of Duke William as King Edward the Confessor's preferred successor is that at about the time Earl Harold was supposed to have visited Normandy King Edward's nephew, Walter of Mantes & the Vexim, the son of Edward's full sister Goda or Godifu, had just starved to death, along with his wife, in a Norman dungeon.
The Crown is a historical drama television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix. Morgan developed the series from his film The Queen (2006) and his stage play The Audience (2013), which also focus on Elizabeth.
15 de nov. de 2022 · 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 ...
22 de ago. de 2023 · The Balmoral summit is expected to occur sometime before September 8, which is the one-year anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's death and the King's accession to the throne.
The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication. Paperback – 12 October 2021. 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.
- Alexander Larman
