Warfield
José Harris, 24 July 1986
Wallis and Edward: Letters 1931-1937
edited by Michael Bloch.
Weidenfeld, 308 pp., £12.95, May 1986,0 297 78804 3 Show More
edited by Michael Bloch.
Weidenfeld, 308 pp., £12.95, May 1986,
Rat Week: An Essay on the Abdication
by Osbert Sitwell.
Joseph, 78 pp., £7.95, May 1986,0 7181 1859 6 Show More
by Osbert Sitwell.
Joseph, 78 pp., £7.95, May 1986,
“... The abdication of Edward VIII belongs to a class of events that can never be adequately treated by historians, since both the act and the actors transcend the conventional boundaries of the historian’s craft. All the evidence suggests that Edward was a mediocre character of limited intelligence and scant scruple, remarkable only for his gigantic powers of self-deception ... ”