cover image King of Fools

King of Fools

John Parker. St. Martin's Press, $5.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-312-92091-3

``In a book that magnifies the shocks in Charles Higham's bestseller, The Duchess of Windsor , Parker covers the well-known backgrounds of Edward VIII (1894-1972) and his wife (1896-1986), but adds considerably more fodder,'' reported PW . Photos. (Mar.)