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In 1936, the British monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era�the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V�s sorely unequipped sons: �a stammering King George VI, terrified that the world might discover he was unfit to rule �a dull-witted Prince Henry, who wanted only a quiet life in the army �the too-glamorous Prince George, the Duke of Kent�a reformed hedonist who found new purpose in the RAF and would become the first royal to die in a mysterious plane crash �the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, deemed a Nazi-sympathizer and traitor to his own country�a man who had given it all up for love Princes at War is a riveting portrait of these four very different men miscast by fate, one of whom had to save the monarchy at a moment when kings and princes from across Europe were washing up on England�s shores as the old order was overturned. Scandal and conspiracy swirled around the palace and its courtiers, among them dangerous cousins from across Europe�s royal families, gold-digging American socialite Wallis Simpson, and the King�s Lord Steward, upon whose estate Hitler�s deputy Rudolf Hess parachuted (seemingly by coincidence) as London burned under the Luftwaffe�s tireless raids. Deborah Cadbury draws on new research, personal accounts from the royal archives, and other never-before-revealed sources to create a dazzling sequel to The King�s Speech and tell the true and thrilling drama of Great Britain at war and of a staggering transformation for its monarchy.