At the time of the Prince of Wales' visit to Brazil, Dina Wells Hood was running a typewriting and translating office in Rio de Janeiro. By this simple coincidence, she was asked to act as his private secretary for the duration of his stay. Naturally she retained many memories of this period - and so apparently did the Prince, for when, after the Abdication, he needed a private secretary to take with him into exile, she was summoned to Paris and immediately given the job. She stayed with the Windsors, as they now became, at the Hotel Meurice, moved with them to the Villa of La Croe near Antibes and remained with them up to the time of the Duke's appointment as Governor of the Bahamas. While quietly and efficiently performing her duties, Miss Wells Hood found that inadvertently she had, as it were, slipped between the pages of history and become a party to events which still arouse passionate argument. At the same time, she obtained the most intimate and vivid glimpses of this famous couple. She has many stories to tell of their efforts to build a normal home life together under the constant and baleful glare of publicity, and describes in detail her work for the Duke - he liked to scatter his letters and papers all over the floor; he adored his three Cairns; he played the bagpipes - and how he came running at the Duchess' call, even while shaving. She also tells of the Duchess' flair for decoration, her interest in the household routine and accounts, her insatiable energy and of the Duke's insistence that she should be addressed as 'Royal Highness' and be accorded the Royal curtsey.  Photographic illustrations.

1st edition by Allan Wingate 1957; hardback; dust jacket is worn (as depicted) and not price-clipped; tightly bound and clean within; SCARCE TITLE