Description This Memoir of an American Private secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor provides a vivid, first-hand account of their day- to-day lives during their time as Royal Governor and First-Lady of the Bahamas during World War II.
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As fate would have it, Michael\'s wife Gloria spotted an article in the San Diego newspaper in 2009 about a large conference of The Duke and Duchess of Windsor Historical Society in nearby Coronado, CA.
Michael said "sure Mom," but the Vietnam War was being waged and a long naval career got in the way of keeping this promise.
As she typed away over a period of several months, she was often heard saying "I am going to set the record straight about what the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were really like." In 1968 at her eldest son\'s graduation from college, she asked him for a bit of help in getting her work published.
Most of these newspaper and magazine articles, and books, had a loose relationship with actual facts or truth.
This was just over 20 years after she had left the employ of the Windsors in Nassau, and during a period which saw the publication of many second hand accounts of the royal couple\'s life together.
The author produced her original typescript about 1965 in her home in Santa Cruz County, California, while shepherding her four children through high school.
She observed her royal employers with a keen eye, and gives witness to their abiding love and affection for one another as they worked as a team (WE) to improve the living conditions of the Bahamian people and lead numerous projects in support of British war efforts.
Hardcastle-Taylor (nee Drewes) actually lived with the former British King and his American wife in Government House, Nassau, from 1940 to mid-1944.
It is not based upon the second-hand accounts of others published years after the deaths of the famous and controversial royal couple, the same couple which is portrayed as unsupportive of British war efforts in the Netflix Series "The Crown." Jean D.
Description This Memoir of an American Private secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor provides a vivid, first-hand account of their day- to-day lives during their time as Royal Governor and First-Lady of the Bahamas during World War II
