This book is about the lives of three women who were associated with Edward VIII, prior to his relationship to Wallis Simpson which led to his abdication in 1936.
In the early years of the 20th Century, during WWI and the 1920s, Edward was the world's most eligible bachelor.
His first, and only, serious relationship with a single woman was with Rosemary Leveson-Gower, the daughter of the Duke of Sutherland. They know each other as children, but became close when Rosemary worked as a nurse during WW1. Edward proposed to her but his father George V thought she was "unsuitable" due to her eccentric mother. He never seriously dated a single woman again, so George V may well have come to regret that decision.
The book then continue with the account of Edward's two long term mistresses, Freda Dudley Ward, who was a stable loving influence on his life for years, but could never have married him due to the fact that she was already married. Then there was Thelma Furness, an American who had married into the British aristocracy, who will always be remembered as the woman who introduced her lover Edward to her friend Wallis Simpson.
The second part follows the abdication, and is the account of what happened to each of them after Edward was no longer in their lives.
" Good, interesting book for anyone who likes/loved the royal family." - Reader.
