The Memoirs of The Duchess of Windsor Special Binding RED leather First ED 1956

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The Memoirs of The Duchess of Windsor Special Binding RED leather First ED 1956:
$18.88

First edition of The Heart Has It\'s Reasons ‘The Memoirs of The Duchess of Windsor’ is scarce but in this special red leather binding it is even more so. I have found onky one other copy, thua telling me its some kind of special edition not a one-of. Illustrated with personal photographs of Wallis

Size approx 8x6 inches

Guaranteed vintage and original

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Her ghost-written memoirs, The Heart Has Its Reasons, were published in 1956. Author Charles Higham says of the book, \"facts were remorselessly rearranged in what amounted to a self-performed face-lift ... reflecting in abundance its author\'s politically misguided but winning and desirable personality.\" He describes the Duchess as \"charismatic, electric and compulsively ambitious\".[135] Hearsay and conjecture have clouded assessment of the Duchess of Windsor\'s life, not helped by her own manipulation of the truth. But there is no document which proves directly that she was anything other than a victim of her own ambition, who lived out a great romance that became a great tragedy. In the opinion of her biographers, \"she experienced the ultimate fairy tale, becoming the adored favourite of the most glamorous bachelor of his time. The idyll went wrong when, ignoring her pleas, he threw up his position to spend the rest of his life with her.\"[136] Academics agree that she ascended a precipice that \"left her with fewer alternatives than she had anticipated. Somehow she thought that the Establishment could be overcome once [Edward] was king, and she confessed frankly to Aunt Bessie about her \'insatiable ambitions\' ... Trapped by his flight from responsibility into exactly the role she had sought, suddenly she warned him, in a letter, \'You and I can only create disaster together\' ... she predicted to society hostess Sibyl Colefax, \'two people will suffer\' because of \'the workings of a system\' ... Denied dignity, and without anything useful to do, the new Duke of Windsor and his Duchess would be international society\'s most notorious parasites for a generation, while they thoroughly bored each other ... She had thought of him as emotionally a Peter Pan, and of herself an Alice in Wonderland. The book they had written together, however, was a Paradise Lost.\"[137] The Duchess herself is reported to have summed up her life in a sentence: \"You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.\"[138]