Adrian Phillips

The King Who Had To Go (eBook, ePUB)

Edward VIII, Mrs Simpson and the Hidden Politics of the Abdication Crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

The previously untold story of the hidden politics that went on behind the scenes during the handling of the Royal abdication crisis of 1936.

The King Who Had to Go describes the harsh realities of how the machinery of government responds when even the King steps out of line. It reveals the pitiless and insidious battles in Westminster and Whitehall that settled the fate of the King and Mrs Simpson. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had to fight against ministers and civil servants who were determined to pressure the King into giving up Mrs Simpson and, when that failed, into abdicating.

Dubious police reports on Mrs Simpson's sex life poisoned the government's view of her and were used to blacken her reputation. Threats to sabotage her divorce were deployed to edge the King towards abdication. Covert intelligence operations convinced the hardliners that the badly coordinated and hopeless attempts of the King's allies, particularly Winston Churchill, to keep him on the throne amounted to a sinister anti-constitutional conspiracy.

The book also shows how the King doomed his chances of keeping the throne by wildly unrealistic goals and ill-thought -out schemes. As each side was overwhelmed by desperation and distrust, Baldwin somehow held the balance and steered the crisis to as smooth a conclusion as possible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785901577
• Artikelnr.: 46424631

Autorenporträt

Adrian Phillips worked as an investment analyst in London and Frankfurt with a particular interest in the political background to financial markets for twenty-five years before taking a postgraduate Masters in modern history at Birmingham University, specialising on the policy machinery at 10 Downing Street during the 1930s.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Prologue
HIDDEN SCANDAL
Chapter 1: The Boy Will Ruin Himself
Chapter 2: The Prime Minister and the Super-Civil Servant
Chapter 3: Almost Impossible to Appeal to Reason
Chapter 4: A Job Iis Assigned to the Prime Minister
HIDDEN CRISIS
Chapter 5: Provoking an Outburst
Chapter 6: A Real Jolt
Chapter 7: Queen or Nothing
Chapter 8: The Underworld Gangster Element
Chapter 9: The Battle for the Throne
PUBLIC CRISIS
Chapter 10: A Fireside Chat
Chapter 11: Obsessed to Get Away
Chapter 12: A Pistol at His Head
Chapter 13: My First Blunder
Chapter 14: The Long and Sinister Shadow
Chapter 15: Sunday Morning at Hendon Aerodrome
Chapter 16: A Microcosm of the Cabinet
OVER THE EDGE
Chapter 17: Rather a Facer
Chapter 18: Mission to a Madhouse
Chapter 19: Beyond Recovery
Chapter 20: Lying Like a Gentleman
Chapter 21: A Court of Her Own
Chapter 22: Plenty of People Ready to Knock Her on the Head
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Endnotes