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Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor with Author Andrew Lownie. (2021)

William Ramsey Investigates

William Ramsey Investigates

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🗓️ 1 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor with Author Andrew Lownie. (2021)

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http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/ 



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0:00.0

Okay, my life. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show of a very special guest. His name is Andrew Loney, and he has published a book in the UK, August 2021.

0:12.2

Title of the book is Traitor King, The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, an excellent book, very well received book, which is also going to be

0:22.5

released in the US in May 2022. It's a daily book, daily mail book of the year. And this is not his only

0:30.1

book. He's just published back in 2019, another bestseller titled The Mountbatten's, The Lives and

0:36.2

Lows of Dickie and Edwina Mountbatten,

0:38.8

which is just published in the U.S. at September 7th, 2021.

0:43.5

So you can find that on Amazon.

0:45.7

But Mr. Loney was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge,

0:49.5

where he was president of the Union and Dunster History Prizeman,

0:53.1

before studying at obtaining a master's of

0:57.1

American espionage and being awarded his doctorate at Edinburgh University. He's also studied in

1:02.9

Asheville, North Carolina. He's a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has been a visiting

1:09.8

fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and Senior Research

1:12.5

Fellow in Modern British History at the University of Buckingham.

1:16.1

He's also the president of the Biographers Club on the Advisory Committee of Biographers International

1:21.6

Organization and was also part of a six-man team which advised on the setting up of the spy museum in Washington, D.C.

1:30.8

And his other earlier books are one on Guy Burgess titled Stalin's Englishman, Guy Burgess,

1:37.6

The Cold War and the Cambridge Spy Ring published 2016 in the U.S.

1:41.9

He also has another book titled The Edinburgh Literary Companion and John

1:47.7

Butchen the Presbyterian Cavalier published at least in the US 2002. So Andrew Launy, are you there?

1:56.6

I'm here. Delighted to be on the show. Great. Well, thanks for agreeing to the interview.

2:00.4

Fascinating book. As somebody who loves history, really opened my eyes to this character,

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