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Last of the duchess

Maître 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.

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  • "Strange and sinister story of the final years of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor"

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  • "Maître 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."
  • "Maître 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."@en
  • "This 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."
  • "Intriguing, suspenseful, and witty, this is the story of journalist and novelist Caroline Blackwood's search for the late Duchess of Windsor. It is also a provocative exploration of the often bizarre connection between heightened celebrity and approaching death--in Blackwood's words, "the fatal effects of myth." First serial to New York Times Magazine."@en

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  • "Biography"
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  • "The Last of the Duchess"
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  • "The last of the Duchess"
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