By Diana Mitford (Lady Mosley)
ISBN-10: 1908096144
ISBN-13: 9781908096142
A consummate author and intimate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Diana Mosley was once a widespread visitor at their events in Paris or at 'the Moulin' in Orsay, the place they have been neighbours. Written in her inimitable sort - archly clever, witty and perceptive - Diana Mosley paints a outstanding portrait of her buddy that's either tremendous life-like and practical just about her flaws. What was once it that totally captivated the inheritor to the throne and made him resign it in order that he may perhaps by no means be parted from her? it's this question which Diana Mosley seeks to respond to and which she might be greater certified to reply to than somebody else, given her love of her husband Sir Oswald Mosley, chief of the British Fascists.
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Uncle Henry and I shook hands warmly. I had happy memories of my stay at Hemmelmark the year before, and I felt that his Anglophile sentiments made him dread the awful possibility of war between our two countries as much as we did. ’ When war was declared on 4 August there was an explosion of public enthusiasm and rejoicing; crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace and the King and Queen had to go on the balcony and be vociferously acclaimed. The general view, even among those who might have known better was that the fighting would be over by Christmas.
Princess May’s mother, the popular and immensely fat Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, was Queen Victoria’s cousin. She was enchanted at this invitation to Balmoral, for she guessed its reason. That her daughter should marry the heir to the throne had always been her wildest ambition. Various German princelings who might have been suitors for Princess May’s hand were prevented from proposing to her because of a ‘stain’—the Duke of Teck’s morganatic birth. While the Duchess was a Royal Highness, the Duke of Teck and Princess May were merely Serene Highnesses, a disadvantage swept to one side by Queen Victoria.
The King is shown presenting his son to the people of Wales. In April 1912 the Prince was sent to France to learn the language, an experiment which was not very successful as he was never to be fluent in French. A photograph from the Prince’s album in the first year of the Great War. Ever since the fatal 28 June when Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated threats and counter-threats had reverberated all over the Continent, but in London life went on just as usual. Towards the end of July the full international implications of what the Prince was later to describe as ‘this villainous act’ became apparent.
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