Book description
Michael Bloch gives a new twist to the oft-told story of King Edward's
short reign. Drawing on a decade-long study of the King's personality,
and on privileged access to his papers, he sees the King's abdication
partly as the result of a plot to get rid of him by men who mistrusted
his modernity and popular touch, but also explainable by the fact that
he did not really want to be king or fight for his throne. 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.
