Book description
Michael Bloch's edition of the intimate correspondence of the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor, from the moment they met in 1931 up to their
marriage in 1937, also containing Wallis Simpson's diary of their affair
in form of her weekly letters to her aunt in Washington, was a
sensational bestseller when it first appeared just after the Duchess's
death, shedding as it does a wealth of fascinating new light on 'the
greatest love story of the century' and the mysteries of King Edward's
abdication. Born in 1953, Michael Bloch read law at St John's College,
Cambridge, and was called to the bar by Inner Temple. He worked for
Maître Suzanne Blum, the Paris lawyer of the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor, and wrote six books about the couple. He edited the diaries of
James Lees-Milne, the National Trust's rescuer of country houses, and
wrote his biography. His other biographical subjects include Hitler's
Foreign Minister, Ribbentrop, and Frederick Matthias Alexander, founder
of the Alexander technique.
