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050 00 $aDA581.W5$bB59 1995
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100 1 $aBlackwood, Caroline.
245 14 $aThe last of the Duchess /$cCaroline Blackwood.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c℗♭1995.
300 $aviii, 295 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 294-295).
520 $aThis 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.
520 $aMai tre 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.
600 10 $aWindsor, Wallis Warfield,$cDuchess of,$d1896-1986.
600 17 $aWindsor, Wallis Warfield,$cDuchess of,$d1896-1986$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00000164
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aBlackwood, Caroline.$tLast of the Duchess.$b1st ed.$dNew York : Pantheon Books, ℗♭1995$w(OCoLC)623778458
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