Critics Review

• Meticulously researched

  Spectator

• Briskly written and compulsively readable…Does Andrew Lownie persuade me that it is worth telling the story again, and that he has made out the case for his unforgiving title? The answer is an unambiguous yes.

  TLS

• Entertaining… convincing… timely. Urgent reading for royals

  Evening Standard

• Darkly compelling…hundreds of eye-popping details…Gripping though it is, this is an unrelentingly damning portrait of the Windsors

  Daily Mail

• Compelling… a devastating portrait of the duke and duchess… a timely point of comparison when set against the ongoing trials and tribulations of the House of Windsor

  The Tablet

• Lownie reveals Edward not as a dupe of the Nazis, but an active and culpable collaborator…The list of individuals interviewed and archives consulted is formidable. The more impressive then, that this is a wonderfully readable and succinct story

  BBC History Magazine

• Thoroughly researched and compelling narrative of one of the most controversial periods in royal history.

  Andrew Morton

• Andrew Lownie has a remarkable ability to fashion a compelling narrative from raw archive text and personal reminiscence. His Traitor King (Blink, £25), about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and their questionable cohorts, is every bit as absorbing as his earlier history of the Mountbattens.

  Andrew Lycett, Spectator Books of the Year

• ‘definitively answering some of the enduring mysteries …Lownie fearlessly yet fairly provides the answers. Lownie appears to have red every book ever written about the Windsors and drilled deep into unpublished archives as well…Lownie has dug into the couple’s complex love lives just as deeply…The full ghastly truth about them has remained obscure until now, partly thanks to a judicious cover-up by the British Establishment…’

  History Today

• Meticulously researched and with so much new material on one of the most controversial Royals of the 20th century. Lownie reveals shocking new aspects to the life of Edward, Duke of Windsor, and firmly placed the Duke as a traitor to his country.

  Aspects of History

• this “explosive new royal biography” (front-cover blurb) by the highly regarded author of books about Guy Burgess and the Mountbattens,.. a biographer as serious and scholarly as Andrew Lownie …Lownie gives heft to George Orwell’s famous observation that the England of that time was a family, but one “with the wrong members in control”

  Times Book of the Week

• Through meticulous research Lownie makes a convincing argument for the duke’s treachery…Edward is revealed for what he was: a traitor to the British people and an ally to Hitler….Academic in its tone and shocking in its contents Lownie goes where no royal biography has gone before. It sheds new light on British history and during the Second World War and would make for a stellar tv series.

  The Lady

• An absorbing and easily digestible book

  Telegraph