The Love of a King

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The publishers would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy Images pp6 (Edward VIII as a child/Keystone Pictures USA), 9 (Edward VIII as colonel of the Welsh Guards/INTERFOTO), 33 (The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Paris/Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix), 38 (The Duke and Duchess of Windsor/Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix), cover (1 penny postage stamp/mp postage stamps); Corbis pp25 (Demonstration against King's abdication/Hulton-Deutsch Collection), 27 (Queen Mary with Prince Edward/Bettmann), 34 (The Duke and Duchess of Windsor/Bettmann), 41 (Four generations of English Royalty/Bettmann); Getty Images pp3 (The White Drawing room, Buckingham Palace/William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive), 19 (Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1930/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive), 22 (King Edward VII and Mrs. Wallis Simpson, 1936/Popperfoto), 28 (King Edward VIII, 1936/Bob Thomas/Popperfoto), 30 (Wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Simpson/Hulton Archive), 36 (Funeral of the Duke of Windsor/Keystone); Rex Features p12 (Wallis Simpson/Everett Collection)

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