![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Only in England itself were the delicious details withheld for a time yet they were common knowledge. That both could combine in one notorious love affair, and that involving the King of England, made the year 1936 an annus mirabilis for readers of newspapers. They now appear so soon after her death - she was nearly 90 - as to make clear that the preparation, and even the typesetting, occured in the years when she lay slowly dying, unaware of the world well lost.įew things in life are as predictable as outraged respectability and public appetite for prurient gossip. LONG IMPATIENT with the view that she had trapped the world's most coveted bachelor into marrying at the cost of his patrimony, the Duchess of Windsor left instructions for posthumous publicaton of their letters. He is also editor of the forthcoming "Bernard Shaw: The June 8, 1986 By Stanley Weintraub Stanley Weintraub's life of Queen Victoria will appear early next year. ![]()
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