17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History, by Andrew Morton
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A meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II.Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife, Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion of Britain, and the attempted cover-up by Churchill, General Eisenhower, and King George VI of the duke's relations with Hitler. From the alleged affair between Simpson and the German foreign minister to the discovery of top secret correspondence about the man dubbed "the traitor king" and the Nazi high command, this is a saga of intrigue, betrayal, and deception suffused with a heady aroma of sex and suspicion.For the first time, Morton reveals the full story behind the cover-up of those damning letters and diagrams: the daring heist ordered by King George VI, the smooth duplicity of a Soviet spy as well as the bitter rows and recriminations among the British and American diplomats, politicians, and academics. Drawing on FBI documents, exclusive pictures, and material from the German, Russian, and British royal archives, as well as the personal correspondence of Churchill, Eisenhower, and the Windsors themselves, 17 CARNATIONS is a dazzling historical drama, full of adventure, intrigue, and startling revelations, written by a master of the genre.
17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History, by Andrew Morton- Amazon Sales Rank: #148352 in Books
- Brand: Morton, Andrew
- Published on: 2015-03-10
- Released on: 2015-03-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.50" w x 6.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
Review "Morton offers a nuanced, intimate, and psychologically incisive understanding of a troubling royal, and arguably, his even more troubling wife. Sorting through myths and conspiracy theories with great skill, he explores their relationship to Hitler and the Nazis. Morton is fearless in his observations and convincing in his conclusions. He vividly illuminates a dark corner of royal history, exposing events which Churchill, Eisenhower, and others tried to conceal."―Jonathan Petropoulos, author of Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany"Explosive revelations...shocking."―Globe"Morton reveals the shocking story the royals tried to ban."―The New York Post"17 CARNATIONS blows open the British government's plot ot bury correspondence between the Duke of Windsor and his Nazi pen pals."―Vanity Fair"[17 CARNATIONS] provides plenty of fresh dope on the Windsors' cozy dealings with Adolf Hitler."―The Advocate"Filled with delicious tidbits...a fun book, filled with spice about a time that shocked the world."―The Owen Sound Sun Times"A very readable sequel to his seeming ongoing series about the wars of the Windsors."―Toronto Star
About the Author Andrew Morton studied history at the University of Sussex, England, with a focus on aristocracy and the 1930s. Morton has written biographies featuring the British Royal Family as well as celebrities, including Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, and Madonna. His bestselling biography of Princess Diana, Diana: Her True Story, met with international acclaim as "the closest we will ever come to her autobiography."
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112 of 123 people found the following review helpful. Shoddy Gossip And Hyperbole, With Some Interesting Material At The End By John D. Cofield Andrew Morton is a British celebrity journalist best known as the author of an eyebrow-raising biography of the late Princess of Wales, who apparently was his unacknowledged collaborator if not co-author. That book was the beginning of a career during which Morton has produced a number of "unauthorized biographies." His latest production bears all his typical hallmarks: hyperbolic claims and hints of scandalous secrets which eventually boil down to nothing, or at least nothing much, until nearly the very end.This book can be roughly divided into three parts. The first 8 or 9 chapters are a recapitulation of the career of the Prince of Wales during the 1920s and 1930s: a lonely and emotionally damaged man who found love or at least release in a series of affairs with married women. Eventually he fell deeply in love with an American woman living in London with her second husband, Mrs. Wallis Simpson. Mrs. Simpson appeared to be exactly the sort of woman the Prince needed (Morton drops some hints about these needs), and by the time he became King Edward VIII in 1936 he could no longer imagine life without her. For her part Mrs. Simpson appears to have balanced the King and her husband along with several other possible lovers (including the German Ambassador von Ribbentrop, whose habit of sending her bouquets of 17 roses or carnations in memory of the number of their rendezvous is the source for Morton's title.) When it was made clear to Edward VIII that he could not remain King if he married a twice-divorced American, he abdicated in December 1936 and became the Duke of Windsor. I found this first part of Morton's book to be the weakest, heavily reliant on gossip, poorly referenced so that it is almost impossible to pin down the sources for some of his stories, and full of mistakes when referring to titled people. A British journalist who has written about royalty and aristocracy ought to know better than to refer to "Viscountess Thelma Furness" or "Lord Edward Stanley."Things improve in the second segment, covering roughly Chapters 10-14. Here we read of the newly wed couple's early years, when the Duke searched for a new role but found himself stymied by his brother King George VI and sister-in-law Queen Elizabeth's determination that he should not return to Britain or hold any prominent position. The Windsors became entangled with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, who believed (with good reason) that they were sympathetic to the Third Reich, and made an ill-advised tour of Germany in 1937. When World War II broke out the Duke made some even more ill-advised statements about the inevitability of German victory and became the target, perhaps knowingly, of Nazi plans to restore him as King once Britain had been conquered. He and the Duchess were sent to govern the Bahamas during most of the war, but they continued to make nuisances of themselves to the King, the Prime Minister, and assorted officials, who had to take time off from dealing with the war to do things like collect the Duchess' favorite bathing suit and bedlinens from her homes in occupied France. There's more solid material in this segment, thanks to the plethora of scholarship from authors like Michael Bloch, Frances Donaldson, Philip Ziegler, and Jonathan Petropoulos.Chapters 15-17 make up my third segment, which is the real heart of the book. Here Morton tells the fascinating story of how Nazi government files, including some dealing with the Windsors, were discovered at the end of World War II and brought to safety in the British and American occupation zones in Germany. It was intriguing to read of the efforts by British officials to keep the embarrassing details about the Duke's dealings with Hitler and other Nazis from becoming public. As an historian I was saddened to read that some well-known academics were complicit in this campaign to keep the details under lock and key, or even to destroy them. The goal of the cover-up was to avoid embarrassing the Duke and by extension the House of Windsor, but that doesn't excuse it. It's a shame that Morton didn't focus on these chapters and expand them instead of throwing in so much weaker material in the first segment. In the end the question of whether the Duke of Windsor actually committed treason, or at least came close to doing so, remains unanswered in Morton's book. Readers who want to know more details can find them in Michael Bloch's several books on the Duke and the Nazis or in Philip Ziegler and Frances Donaldson's biographies.
60 of 64 people found the following review helpful. Meh By Sarah R If you've read any other books about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, you can skip this. Morton and his publishers may be trumpeting that there's new information, but every "revelation" in this book has been well-known to Windsorphiles since at least 1960. The cover and the intro chapters all seem to suggest that Morton is going to settle the rumor about Wallis and Ribbentrop once and for all- he never does. He repeats the gossip and moves on, and this is a theme with many different rumors throughout the whole book.Morton gives a lot of "poor little rich boy" background on the Duke of Windsor, while successfully ignoring the backgrounds of the rest of the family and other major players in the scandal. He repeats all the details of the Duke's actions in Lisbon in 1940, but then seems to suggest that his royal relatives treated him poorly after the war. Morton seems to want us to think of the Duke as a sympathetic figure, which when contrasted with the behavior he describes makes the book feel disjointed.If it was a fun or fast read I might suggest it for readers who don't know much about the Windsors and are interested in learning more about them, but the book is a slog. There are much better biographies out there- skip this one.
40 of 44 people found the following review helpful. Three and a half stars... By Cynthia K. Robertson I generally find books by Andrew Morton to be more gossip than fact, but overall, 17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest Cover-up in History was better than I expected. Still, having read quite a bit about King Edward VIII, who became the Duke of Windsor, I thought that there was a lot of information in 17 Carnations that is common knowledge. In this regard, the second half of the book was more informative to me.The lives of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (the former Wallis Warfield Simpson) have been covered very extensively. In the first half of 17 Carnations, Morton briefly recounts their childhoods, their families, Edward’s becoming Prince of Wales and then King. He also covers Edward’s romances and Wallis’ two marriages, as well as their own romance—which will cause Edward to give up his throne. The first half also includes much about Operation Willi, the Nazi plot to kidnap the Windsors and restore Edward to power once Hitler defeated Great Britain. A lot of information has been written about all of the above and Morton quotes liberally from books that cover these areas is greater detail including Operation Willi: the Nazi Plot of Kidnap the Duke of Windsor by Michael Bloch, and King Edward VIII by Philip Ziegler. It was in the second half of 17 Carnations that I actually learned some new facts. As World War II was coming to an end, the Allies were doing all they could to recover German documents. The British were obsessed with any document that might damage the monarchy, and their main targets were any papers that mentioned the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and their possible collusion with the Nazi government. Even when the “Windsor File” was discovered, great efforts were made to destroy it. It if wasn’t for an obscure American historian, David Harris, who was working for the state department, the files probably would have been buried. Even so, the efforts of British leaders including Winston Churchill kept the Windsor File under wraps for over a decade after their discovery.After reading 17 Carnations, there are still many questions to be answered. Did Wallis really have an affair with Joachim Ribbentrop, Ambassador to the Court of St. James in the 1930s? Was Edward a “royal dupe rather than a traitor king?” He is accused of courting Nazi favor and passing along sensitive information. He actually visited Germany in 1937 and had a private audience with Adolph Hitler. He became fast friends with businessmen with Nazi sympathies. When the Germans invaded France and he had to flee, he asked the Nazis to look after his two properties. After he abdicated, he actually made comments critical of Britain and kept offering to negotiate a peace with Germany. Even years after the war, he still defended his actions. It is especially sad to realize what a shallow, petty, and self-centered person the Duke was. While England was preparing for the Battle of Britain and facing great hardships and sacrifices, he was trying to blackmail his brother, King George VI, into giving Wallis a royal title and receiving her at court. Also, I still don’t quite understand why the British tried so hard to suppress the Windsor File. As much as they disliked the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, I think that revealing the file right after the war would have done much more to hurt the Duke and Duchess than the monarchy.17 Carnations is loaded with many photographs, some never seen before. He also had unpublished letters between Herman and Katherine Rogers, good friends of the Windsors. Herman Rogers also grew up next door to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Morton was also able to access unpublished files in Russian archives. Overall, I enjoyed 17 Carnations despite already knowing much of the history. I guess I just need a royalty-fix from time to time.
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