A review by pearl35
The Windsor Faction by D.J. Taylor

3.0

Taylor, author of a biography of George Orwell I particularly liked, turns his rich knowledge of 1930s England to an alternate history novel in which Wallis died in 1936 of appendicitis before Edward VIII could abdicate to marry her. It is now 1939, and the morose king stews at Sandringham, surrounded by appeasers, planning to give a King's Speech drastically different from that delivered by his brother. This is my favorite kind of alternate history--things flow from a reality that is just a couple of degrees off.