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The most glamorous and cultured of George V’s sons, Prince George and his beautiful wife, Princess Marina of Greece, were celebrity super-royals of the 1930s. Yet, in recent years, George has been labelled a drug-addicted, pro-Nazi, bisexual dilettante whose death in an unsolved air crash in 1942 while on a secret ‘special mission’ was a blessing in disguise. Drawing on much unpublished material, including formerly closed files at the National Archives and George’s extensive correspondence with two of his closest friends, the book will reassess George’s reputation. For the first time, the man behind the accepted image will be revealed.
Glyn will demolish the myth that George was a delicate aesthete whose Navy career in the 1920s was devoid of friends or fun. He also queries George’s ‘relationship’ with ‘Kiki’ Preston, the ‘Girl with the Silver Syringe’ of Kenya’s Happy Valley Set, and exposes her extensive connections with his eldest brother, later Duke of Windsor.
Glyn discloses George’s championing of Poland and Yugoslavia during the Appeasement years and the war. Vitriolic outbursts against Nazism in his private letters, together with his tireless wartime service in the RAF and mammoth flag-waving tour of North America in 1941, will speak for themselves. And although Glyn has confirmed that ‘official’ documents evidencing George’s role in an SOE operation to lure Hess to Scotland are forgeries, he can reveal George’s links to several of the key players in the affair.
Wild rumours were first voiced within hours of George’s Sunderland flying boat crashing mystifyingly off course on a remote Scottish hillside After sixty years, Glyn will finally reveal the details of George’s ‘special mission’ – and explain the cause of the tragedy.
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