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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 lovePrinces 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.