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ROSE,ANDREW: : THE PRINCE,THE PRINCESS AND THE PERFECT MURDER

LONDON.CORONET[HODDER&STOUGHTON],2013.

ISBN 9781444776454.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn,no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,subject b/w portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj and blue+gilt lettering,with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A couple of oblique (accidental?) creases to lower corner of front,inner flap of dw/dj. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine -no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain,dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.8vo HB+dw/dj,ix-xpp+1-336pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,author intro,26 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w+colour photographs in one block, between pp246/7,notes, acknowledgements and picture acknowledgements.Plus, [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication, literary extracts and a social media advert and 4pp blanks to rear. This is a story of a passionate and deadly love affair,set against the dramatic backdrop of the Great War. Edward was enthralled by the 'crazy physical attraction' of Marguerite Alibert,queen of the Paris demi-monde.When he broke off their hidden relationship,Edward thought that he was free of Marguerite.He was wrong. After the war,as a violent thunderstorm raged outside the luxurious Savoy Hotel in London, Marguerite fired three shots from a semi-automatic pistol.Her husband,an Egyptian multimilionaire and playboy,was shot dead at point blank range. Marguerite stood trial for murder at the Old Bailey.As Prince Charming and poster boy of the British Empire,Edward now risked exposure as a degenerate wastrel,partying behind the lines while thousands were blown away on the Western Front. How far will the British Establishment go to cover up a royal scandal? Half a century before Dodi and Diana,another Prince of Wales would be involved in a deadly love triangle with a fabulously wealthy Egyptian 'prince'.Edward was the future King of England,a destiny he would famously forsake over his love for Wallis Simpson.But two decades earlier he was involved in another love affair that threatened to jeopardize the royal family.The story took place in maisons de rendevous,luxurious chateaux in the French countryside providing hospitality for the British upper classes,the richest food,the finest wines and the most beautiful women, in the violent and dangerous Paris demi-monde where many of the women came from and in the Savoy hotel in London,where a murder was committed. This major royal scandal,superbly covered up by the Royal family and the judiciary has remained secret ever since.The product of several years' research,accessing unpublished documents held in the Royal Archives and private collections in England and France. Andrew Rose,using his long experience as barrister and judge, has uncovered a royal scandal carefully airbrushed from history. Edward never quite escaped from Marguerite,who had taught the arts of love to a once and future King. As part of the airbrushing,was Prince Edward's visit to Canada in September 1924 (see rja453713) which took place a year after the acquital of Marguerite Alibert (with whom he had been romantically involved a decade earlier) of murdeing her Egyptian husband in the Savoy Hotel, a distraction and a ploy to keep him abroad for a while,and out of the public's eye?

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