Amelia Montague, a cousin of Wallis Simpson, never imagined she would end up spying on her. After all, Wallis had hired her to be her personal secretary when everyone else had turned their backs on Amelia. THE WINDSOR CONSPIRACY, by Georgie Blalock, is a work of historical fiction that introduces readers to Wallis Simpson through the eyes of her cousin. While Amelia is a fictional character, she is based on several women who actually worked for the Duchess.
THE WINDSOR CONSPIRACY is a fascinating story. Inexperienced and perhaps naïve, Amelia grows into her position while being given a front-row seat into the lives of both the man who abdicated as the King of England and the woman he did this for. Much of what she sees is not pretty. Wallis was consumed with anger and bitterness, after all, she didn't realize her dream of becoming a queen. Worse than that, the couple became Nazi sympathizers. After Wallis knowingly puts Amelia in a perilous situation. Amelia finds herself a prisoner of the Gestapo. As a result, Amelia's allegiance to the Windsors evaporates and what follows is a life-changing path.
Filled with historical data, THE WINDSOR CONSPIRACY brings to life both the Windsor's and the role they played both before, during and after WW II as seen by a confidant. Skillfully told and engrossing. This book is well worth reading. Highly recommended.
Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl, delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to spy on the Duchess of Windsor for her alleged Nazi sympathies and finds much more than she bargained for!
American Amelia Montague defied her family five years ago to marry the man she loved, but that decision cost her everything. Disowned by her family, and left a penniless widow after her husband’s death, Amelia becomes her cousin Wallis Simpson’s private secretary in France. With no other prospects available, Amelia has no choice but to succeed, and under their Aunt Bessie’s direction, hopes to have a positive influence on Wallis and the Duke of Windsor.
During the next two years, Amelia realizes that not everything with the Windsors is glittering happiness. Beneath the façade of the besotted couple simmers Wallis’s rage at her stunted ambition, and the couple soon reveal themselves to be self-centered Nazi supporters who pursue their own interests at any cost.
When the Germans invade France, and the Windsors leave Amelia to escape the Gestapo on her own, Amelia finds herself in position to work for the most unlikely of employers: MI5 and the FBI. Convinced to work undercover, Amelia joins the Windsors in Nassau and soon realizes that Wallis’s treachery extends far deeper than the US and British government even knows…
Richly imaginative, Georgie Blalock’s novel stuns as it explores two women, opposites in every way, and the choices they make to survive both war and each other. . .
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