It follows Margaret, “who desires to break the mould, follow her internal compass – her heart – and discover her raison d’être – falling in love along the way”. she faces and within a day or two has the four children firmly under control. The self absorbed mother of these children rarely sees them and Angelique comes to love them and they her (of She was born to received the curse, to disappear. So, she accepted the marriage proposal to be free from her family before she dies but... the hospitality and affection she received from her in-laws are endless and her husband's obsession is mysterious... A flower path unfolds in front of her, who was a time limit! This book alternates between a few different timelines to give us an in depth look at this complicated and infamous historical figure. Well written. On the ship over to America, Angelique meets Andrew and they fall in love. He too was enthralled with her beauty and intelligence. They marry and have a son. Fastfoward six years--now this is where the author really slayed me. I'm no expert on English law but I believe the historical inaccuracy in this book was outrageous. Not only were dates and events mentioned that made no sense but the final craziness was when Angelique heard that her brother Tristan, now the Duke, had blown through all their father's money and was going to sell the ENTAILED property. He also was willing to SELL his title. The other half brother had died so he wasn't around to protest. And to top it off, it was stated that Angelique's son would be the heir to the Dukedom. Again, I'm no expert but can the son of the daughter of a Duke inherit the title? I thought all heirs came from only the male side, unless you are talking Kings and Queens. Even so, the Duke could not have put entailed property up for sale. That is the whole idea behind making it entailed. It seems like an author with the resources available to Danielle Steel would have researched some of this. And what about her editor? I think this is sloppy work at best.

nanny for her. Evidently, she has no one else to turn to and with her bag of money hidden she goes off to live the life of a servant. Now she has never been around children but has to become the nanny to four children 4 1/2 years and younger. Not to worry though, Angelique excels at whateverThis is my first Wendy Holden book and I was impressed by how she captured Wallis’s voice and kept it consistent, even though we meet Wallis in the 1930s and again in the 1970s when her exiled husband has finally returned to England for burial. Although Mrs Simpson had been held up as a ‘scarlet woman’ who tempted Britain’s king away from the throne, Holden takes a new stance, portraying her as an innocent, slightly naive woman who was out of her depth in aristocratic society. Holden draws some interesting parallels between Wallis and the most recent American duchess, Megan Markle but doesn’t explore whether there’s a similar connection between Prince Harry and Wallis’s David… They meet when they were younger and FL is playing, trips in front of ML and hands her a handkerchief. They made a promise. ML is blushing, but gets mad realizing that FL was sent in poor carriage. FL gets flown around and bumps into ML in the new carriage, he puts her in his lap and holds her. She falls asleep and he carries her in when they arrive. Prince William is said to be buoyed by his popularity with the public, to the extent that he is “sometimes more concerned about his own image than that of the institution”.

The Duke of Sussex is ready to put the bitter feud with his family behind him and move on but Meghan has refused to have anything to do with them, Scobie claims. Suddenly, Wallis is plunged into a lifestyle she could only dream about previously. Unimagined privilege, luxury, and wealth. What more could a woman want or ask for? Surely, this is all temporary, because certainly the prince will one day be king and must do his duty by the monarchy and marry a suitable bride. Me ha encantado el personaje de Angélique que al principio parece frágil pero acaba demostrando que es fuerte y que no necesita nadie que la ayude, es un personaje que ves como va evolucionando a mejor y florece del todo. I also couldn’t sympathize with the Prince, since he seemed to bully Ms. Simpson into the marriage, whether she wanted it or not. He also seemed shallow and whiny. The Duke gave her the ultimatum to give up her lover and child, or face never seeing her existing three children again.But that's the thing about history, Wallis. It's not what you did that counts. It's what people think you did."

As someone who doesn’t really take much interest in the British royal family, I was still quite aware of the name Wallis Simpson and how the king infamously gave up the throne for her - a twice divorced woman. I was also aware that history did not view her favourably, so it was quite fascinating to read this author’s take on the subject.Er komen heel wat historische personages voor in het boek. Af en toe moest ik even opzoeken om te weten wie wie is. Een lijst met de personages en wie ze zijn had hier zeker een meerwaarde geweest voor de niet-Britse lezers. Although Wallis is portrayed early in the book as being a real social climber and extremely desperate to move above her lowly station, I do feel that the second half of the book shows her in a much more sympathetic light. I’m not entirely sure I found it plausible after the single-minded scheming to be noticed by anyone she considered noteworthy, but who knows? 🤷🏻‍♀️ When his memoir, Spare, was published in January, he made it clear that he believed they owed him an apology and said the “ball was in their court”. She has been reading children’s books throughout the pandemic on her YouTube channel, Storytime with Fergie and Friends. I'm sorry but you need to be told, this is a truly poor book and, whilst all respect to Ms Steel for building up such a huge readership whilst raising 9 kids, I think readers of romance deserve better.