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King Edward VIII's "Lost" Memoir Draws on His Private Notes

Early this year, Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, became a blockbuster when it revealed a peek behind the curtain of royal life. However, the Duke of Sussex was not the first royal to pen a tell-all—in fact, numerous royals have published memoirs over the years, including none other than the former King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne and became the Duke of Windsor.

In 1951, the Duke of Windsor authored a memoir, A King's Story, about his decision to abdicate and marry Wallis Simpson, working with ghostwriter Charles Murphy. A few years later, he worked with Wallis on her memoir, The Heart Has Its Reasons. Decades later, author Jane Marguerite Tippett discovered Murphy's notes in the Boston University Archive, including an early draft of the memoir, transcriptions from interviews with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and more.

Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII

"It was all new material," she told The Telegraph. "How, I kept asking myself, could it not have been fo

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Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)

Edward VIII ©The only British sovereign to abdicate voluntarily, Edward stepped down in 1936 to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. He was king for less than a year.

Edward was born on 23 June 1894 in Richmond, Surrey, the eldest child of the duke of York. He was always known in his family as David, one of many middle names. In 1910, Edward's father became George V and Edward, prince of Wales. He joined the Grenadier Guards in World War One, although he was not allowed to see active service. Throughout the 1920s, Edward undertook extensive foreign tours particularly in the empire, representing his father. These tours, together with Edward's visits to areas of high unemployment and deprivation in Britain during the economic depression of the early 1930s, made Edward very popular.

Edward had affairs with a number of married women in the 1920s, but then met and fell in love with Wallis Simpson, the wife of an American businessman. In January 1936, George V died and Edward became king. In October, Wallis Simpson was granted a divorce from h

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Edward VIII

(1894-1972)

Who Was Edward VIII?

Edward VIII was a popular member of the British royal family and heir to the throne. In 1931, then known as the Prince of Wales, Edward met and fell in love with American socialite Wallis Simpson. After George V's death, the prince became King Edward VIII. However, because his marriage to Simpson, an American divorcée, was forbidden, Edward abdicated the throne after ruling for less than a year. Thereafter, he took the title Duke of Windsor and embarked on a jet-setting life with his new wife.

Early Life

Edward VIII, who ruled the United Kingdom from January to December 1936, was born on June 23, 1894, in Richmond, London, England. The eldest son of George V, Edward studied at Osborne Naval College, the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth and the University of Oxford's Magdalen College.

In 1911, after his father's ascension, Edward became the Prince of Wales. He joined the Royal Navy and then, following the start of World War I, enlisted in the army. His assignments to safe positions on the Italian front troubled him, causing him