• #44 A Royal Affair

  • Sep 15 2022
  • Length: 45 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • One of history’s most famous royal love affairs is threaded through Emily Hourican’s latest novel.

    The backdrop to The Other Guinness Girl is the 1936 abdication crisis, when the newly-crowned King Edward VIII surrendered this throne to marry his twice-divorced American lover, Wallis Simpson.

    “What was it about her that so compelled the Prince of Wales? Why was he determined to give up everything for her?” asks Emily.

    The Other Guinness Girl: A Question of Honour by Emily Hourican is published by Hachette Books Irelandhttps://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emily-hourican/the-other-guinness-girl-a-question-of-honor/9781399708012/
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