Letters from a Prince

In 1996 a cache of 263 letters, previously thought lost, was discovered - the first of a total of over 2000 written by Edward, then Prince of Wales, during his sixteen-year relationship with Freda Dudley Ward, the estranged wife of a Liberal MP, who came to dominate his life in the years after the Great War. Dating from just days after their first meeting, during an air raid in London in February 1918, until January 1921, these letters give remarkable new insights into Edward's character, providing the reader with a greater understanding of how this fascinating figure could later give up his throne for love.