Dancing with the Devil : The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue

Dancing with the Devil : The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 270 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780312272043
  • DDC分類 B

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The story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor is one of the most romantic of all time -- Edward VIII abdicated his throne so that he could marry the woman he loved, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Very few people knew that the Duchess cuckolded and almost gave him up for a gay playboy 20 years her junior. The grandson of millionaire Frank W. Woolworth, Jimmy Donahue carved for himself a career of mischief. Some said evil. Gay at a time when the homosexual act was still illegal, Jimmy was notorious within America's upper class, and loved to shock. He was 35 when he was befriended by the Duke and Duchess in 1950. The Duchess was 54, and despite the difference in age, there was an instant attraction. As Jimmy had planned, the royal couple became obsessed with him. With information from surviving contemporaries, this is the extraordinary tale of three remarkable people and their unique and twisted relationship.