![]() I was fortunate to go to the Duke's house in 1972 and again several times after his death, during which time I got to know his private secretary, John Utter. Nevertheless my interest goes back to the 1960s. I am sometimes described as a Duke of Windsor expert myself, though I have only contributed a text to the handsome book of photographs, found in the Duke's bath, The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. There have been documentaries, including a rather disreputable one last year called The Traitor King and Prince Edward's more balanced approach, Edward on Edward, which corrected some of the untruths and appears to have launched the Duke's great-nephew on a career as an assured television presenter. Both the Duke and the Duchess wrote their memoirs (with the help of ghosts) in the 1950s. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Duke of Windsor has been the subject of a great number of biographies, beginning with those published in his early years and accounts of his extensive travels, and ending, or so we hoped, with Philip Ziegler's authorised life, Edward VIII, in 1990. ![]()
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