The sons of King George V and Queen Mary were brought up to fulfil very different roles within the Royal Family. Their personal lives were successfully kept out of the public eye until 1936, when the dazzling Edward VIII rejected his role as King of England for the sake of the glamorous American socialite and divorcee, Wallis Simpson, and plunged the family and his country into crisis.Drawing on new research Cadbury shows just how far the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were prepared to go to take back the British throne from Edward's younger, stammering brother, King George VI, should Germany prevail in the Second World War, and how the rift threatened to tear the royal family and the nation apart.