Volume 22, Number 21 & 22 · January 22, 1976
All in the Family
By Noel Annan
Edward VIII
by Frances Donaldson
Lippincott, 477 pp., $15.00
The story of Edward VIII has passed into folklore through two legends. The first is the fairy tale of women's magazines. Prince Charming, spurning all the princesses of effete Europe, finds his true love from the land of freedom and romance, America. But his cunning and aged minister, Stanislas, Count Baudoin, entangles him in his wiles and declares the match to be against the laws of his country. The King gives up his throne for love, he and his bride live happily ever after, and the wicked Stanislas dies execrated by the people for leaving them defenseless in the war which follows Prince Charming's exile.
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