The Duchess: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Governess

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A murder occurred at the brothel and even though one of Angelique's admirers (high up in the government) did his best to hide the location and facts surrounding the murder, he advised Angelique to close up for a while and leave the country. He owned a historic castle, he looked manly in a kilt, and he was as much a titled Scotsman as Bonnie Prince Charlie himself. When an unexpected encounter leads to a house party with the Prince of Wales, Wallis’s star begins to rise. Her tantrums are justified, she is pregnant ofc and here's another bit*h trying to harm her and the baby just to covet her husband. As she works her way up the ladder, she meets the Prince and becomes close friends with him, which leads to possibly love.

Wallis had a reputation for being extraordinarily amusing which didn't quite come across --and I found her obsession with her wardrobe, and a yearning to belong to England's dull, snobbish and utterly vile top drawer of society a bit repetitive. The sudden death of George V seems to make this inevitable; the Prince of Wales is now King Edward VIII. The poet stumbles upon a clearing and finds a knight dressed in black composing a song for the death of his lady. Evidently, she has no one else to turn to and with her bag of money hidden she goes off to live the life of a servant. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.This book allowed me entry into the thoughts of Wallis and put a new slant on history if David ever really wanted to be King or if Wallis his perfect reason not to do so. Het verhaal begint wanneer Wallis in Londen arriveert met Ernest en eindigt wanneer ze Groot-Brittannië met Edward verlaat. From its none-too-promising beginnings, My Last Duchess turns out to be a surprisingly intelligent exploration of the gulf between the New World and the old – and one woman's spirited attempt to bridge it.

I find it hard to totally sympathize with the woman who looked delighted to meet Hitler and his cronies, but then again it wasn't until the late 30's that people began to see what was really going on in Germany and it's easy to judge the past knowing what went on. Just 18, the beautiful bride has not only arrived late, but in tears, yet her marriage to the aloof Duke of Marlborough proceeds. It just barely mentioned her liaisons with Nazis and didn't mention the meetings she and David had with Hitler.Wallis longs for parties, the theatre, and glamorous, interesting friends, but the British have social codes that can’t be cracked and an impenetrable class system, and to them, she is just a middle-aged foreigner without looks, money or connections. Fabienne is 18 and a prostitute who was trying to make it on her own without protection of a pimp or a madam. I cannot blame the FL (since her name is hard to spell lol) she is pregnant and is sensitive because of pregnancy hormones.

Also please stop referring to the Union flag as the Union Jack at no point in the narrative were the flags on ships.

The second timeline starts in 1928 with Wallis marrying her second husband the reliable and loving Ernest who thinks the world of her. The story of the scandalous relationship between the mercurial heir to the throne and his married Stateside mistress gets a new and compelling twist in the second book of bestselling author Wendy Holden’s historical fiction series about ‘difficult women’ in the House of Windsor.