Her most recent books include The Children of London (2001) and Ladies of Influence: Women of the Elite in Interwar Britain (2000) and she has also edited several anthologies, of which The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women won the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Award for Best Anthology in 1996. She grew up in Zambia and has worked as a writer and lecturer in Britain, Zimbabwe and Montreal. She now lives in London and is a historian at the University of London.
Susan Williams served as Historical Advisor to the Public Record Office for the release in 2003 of the government documents relating to the abdication.
SUSAN WILLIAMS The People's King The True Story of the Abdication PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London wczr orl, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2.50 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue,Toronto, Ontario, Canada m4v 3b2 Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 1 t Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 1 ro 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), Cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London wc2r orl, England www.penguin.com Published by Allen Lane 2003 Published in Penguin Books 2004 2 Copyright © Susan Williams, 2003 All rights reserved The moral right of the author has been asserted Typeset by Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser For Tendayi and Monica 'He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene' Words spoken by Winston Churchill after saying farewell to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936 from 'An Horatian Ode' by Andrew Marvell, 1650, on the beheading of King Charles I Contents List of illustrations Photographic acknowledgements are given in parentheses.
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