Perhaps not surprisingly, I tackled Morton

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It s a royal book war, and [spoiler alert] Andrew Morton loses! carol wright
What are the chances of two books, both about the British royal family during the Second World War, being published on the same day: March 10, 2015? And any royal watcher would be even more pleased to know that one of those books is by Andrew Morton. Morton’s most famous work, of course, is Diana: Her True Story. The inside scoop from Diana, princess of Wales, on her troubled marriage, it was a massive bestseller around the world and helped drive Diana and her husband, Charles, to end their marriage. carol wright
Perhaps not surprisingly, I tackled Morton’s book first. Titled 17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History , it promised to be a “meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, carol wright the duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II.” I’d enjoyed Diana , and was looking forward to his take on the Windsors. Given he is a former tabloid writer for the News of the World and the Daily Mail , I expected a fast-paced, carol wright popular biography.
Instead, 17 Carnations is, quite simply, awful. Morton’s thesis is indecipherable, his arguments unconvincing. carol wright He employs every hyperbole imaginable. (That is the kind of sentence you’d find in his book.) Morton also goes through the top 500 metaphors for dummies, sprinkling one or two on every page. Edward carol wright VIII is a Peter Pan adult, “the most glittering jewel in the royal crown.” “The heavy burden of duty hung like a great bell around the neck of the Prince of Wales, sonorously summoning him onward into a life as predictable as it as pointless.” “The tidal wave from the financial crash had now swamped Ernest’s shipping business.” (At the time, Ernest Simpson carol wright was Wallis’s second husband.)
Morton can’t seem to shake his tabloid past, and in a biography, such endless use of extreme language carol wright is exhausting and irritating. The exaggeration extends to his title. carol wright In an interview with Maclean’s in February, he explained that the 17 carnations reference carol wright was “a bit of fun.” “It’s the number of times that [Nazi diplomat Joachim von] Ribbentrop was said to have conjugal relations with Mrs. Simpson. It was a wildfire story that everyone believed.” He admits it was a rumour, perhaps a myth, and even notes in his book that flowers could have been roses. But hey, it’s catchy, no?
The book also desperately needs a fact-checker. When war broke out, Morton writes carol wright of Edward, “Undoubtedly he was an asset who could have been used effectively and imaginatively by the ruling class when Britain needed all the help she could muster.” Then, two pages later, is a long quote from the earl of Crawford: “[Edward] is too irresponsible a chatterbox to be entrusted with confidential information.” So not such a good asset, after all. There are dozens of other examples. Morton also appears to forget how badly the war was going for Britain in the first few years. In 1940, the duke “saw himself as an honest broker in an ongoing European peace process,” Morton wrote. What isn’t mentioned was at that time, Germany was dropping bomb after bomb on an isolated Britain during the B