Richard Wallace is a journalist and author. Having worked in Australia for the Fairfax newspaper organisation, he was posted to Europe in 1986 to cover the death of the Duchess of Windsor and the subsequent Geneva auction of her jewellery collection the following year. Leaving Fairfax, Richard joined the Independent shortly after its creation in 1986 at the request of eccentric founding editor, Andreas Whittam Smith.

‘In the new book The King's Loot by Richard Wallace, the author tells the tale of the theft of some of the couple's most expensive jewellery pieces, which was rumoured to be an “inside job”.’

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPrologue: The Duchess of Windsor’s Jewels1 Hatless from the Air2 Gangan & Co.3 Rubies as Big as a Pigeon’s Egg4 The Unimportance of Being Ernest5 The Vast Shipwreck of My Life’s Esteems6 Bride Stripped Bare7 An Iceberg Through the Heart8 The Whole Bag of Tricks9 Martyr on the Orient Express10 The Adventure of Ednam Lodge11 The Mystery of Ednam Lodge12 The Secret of Ednam Lodge13 Auction of the Century14 A New York State of MindPostscript: The Only Thing That Ever Truly MatteredNotesBibliography

Richard Wallace is a journalist and author. Having worked in Australia for the Fairfax newspaper organisation, he was posted to Europe in 1986 to cover the death of the Duchess of Windsor and the subsequent Geneva auction of her jewellery collection the following year. Leaving Fairfax, Richard joined the Independent shortly after its creation in 1986 at the request of eccentric founding editor, Andreas Whittam Smith.

‘In the new book The King's Loot by Richard Wallace, the author tells the tale of the theft of some of the couple's most expensive jewellery pieces, which was rumoured to be an “inside job”.’

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPrologue: The Duchess of Windsor’s Jewels1 Hatless from the Air2 Gangan & Co.3 Rubies as Big as a Pigeon’s Egg4 The Unimportance of Being Ernest5 The Vast Shipwreck of My Life’s Esteems6 Bride Stripped Bare7 An Iceberg Through the Heart8 The Whole Bag of Tricks9 Martyr on the Orient Express10 The Adventure of Ednam Lodge11 The Mystery of Ednam Lodge12 The Secret of Ednam Lodge13 Auction of the Century14 A New York State of MindPostscript: The Only Thing That Ever Truly MatteredNotesBibliography

Richard Wallace is a journalist and author. Having worked in Australia for the Fairfax newspaper organisation, he was posted to Europe in 1986 to cover the death of the Duchess of Windsor and the subsequent Geneva auction of her jewellery collection the following year. Leaving Fairfax, Richard joined the Independent shortly after its creation in 1986 at the request of eccentric founding editor, Andreas Whittam Smith.

‘In the new book The King's Loot by Richard Wallace, the author tells the tale of the theft of some of the couple's most expensive jewellery pieces, which was rumoured to be an “inside job”.’

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPrologue: The Duchess of Windsor’s Jewels1 Hatless from the Air2 Gangan & Co.3 Rubies as Big as a Pigeon’s Egg4 The Unimportance of Being Ernest5 The Vast Shipwreck of My Life’s Esteems6 Bride Stripped Bare7 An Iceberg Through the Heart8 The Whole Bag of Tricks9 Martyr on the Orient Express10 The Adventure of Ednam Lodge11 The Mystery of Ednam Lodge12 The Secret of Ednam Lodge13 Auction of the Century14 A New York State of MindPostscript: The Only Thing That Ever Truly MatteredNotesBibliography