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The last of the Duchess

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	DA581.W5 B59 1995	Off-site

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viii, 295 pages; 22 cm

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This is the fascinating and startling story of journalist and novelist Caroline Blackwood's search for the late Duchess of Windsor. In 1980, the London Sunday Times commissioned Lord Snowdon to photograph the Duchess, who was then living outside of Paris, and Blackwood was asked to go along to report. But it is Maitre Suzanne Blum, one of the most powerful lawyers in France, who becomes the central figure of Blackwood's story. Fierce and controlling, Blum holds the Duchess a virtual prisoner in her grand but now shuttered house in the Bois de Boulogne, keeping away all visitors. In Blum, Blackwood brings to life a wily old Gorgon -- alternately vulnerable and ruthless, paranoid and perverse -- who has begun interweaving her life with that of the Duchess. It is from Blackwood's talks with such colorful contemporaries of the Duchess as Lady Monckton, Lady Diana Cooper, and Lady Mosley and from her own encounter with Maitre Blum that Blackwood is able to evoke brilliantly the life and exploits of Wallace Warfield Simpson Windsor as well as her bizarre and sinister relationship with Suzanne Blum. - Jacket flap.
Maître Suzanne Blum, one of the most powerful lawyers in France, becomes the central figure in this account of the last years in the life of the Duchess of Windsor who was virtually a prisoner in her grand house in the Bois de Boulogne.

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94019641

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Princeton University Library