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July 31, 2011

A Very Ordinary Person

July 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

When his brother the king abdicated, shy Prince Bertie suddenly became king - and he was just settling in when the World War II threw his kingdom into chaos. 'A Year with the Windsors' continues.

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July 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
A Year With The Windsors, Features, History, Politics & History
A Year With The Windsors, Admiral Leahy, Adolph Hitler, August 2011, Battle of Agincourt, Battle of Jutland, Bertie, Buckingham Palace, Clement Attlee, Duke of Windsor, Duke of York, Edward VIII, Elizabeth, first world war, Franklin Roosevelt, George III, George v, George VI, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, House of Windsor, John Wheeler-Bennett, Lord Mountbatten, Margaret Rose, Marlborough House, Nagasaki, neville chamberlain, OLM, Open Letters Monthly, Pearl Harbor, Pericles, Prince Albert, Prince Eddy, Prince of Wales, Queen Mary, quisling, Sarah Bradford, Sir Gerald Kelly, Spanish Armada, Steve Donoghue, Third Reich, U-S-S- Augusta, Wallis Simpson, Westminster Abbey, Winston Churchill
May 31, 2011

That Indescribable Something

May 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

She was married to two kings, reigned during the advent of trench warfare and the suppression of suffragettes, and stayed all her life a delightful dinner guest; A Year With the Windsors continues with the fascinating and fastidious Queen Mary.

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May 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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