A Poisoning in Piccadilly (Lady Eleanor, #1)

by Lynda Wilcox

Prince Edward, eventually King Edward VIII in 1936, would have been 28 and, of course, unmarried.

Count Louis Vorow Zborowski (20 February 1895 – 19 October 1924) was an English racing driver and automobile engineer. Zborowski joined the Mercedes team in 1924 but died in one of their cars, after hitting a tree during the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. He was just 29 years old. The children's book by Ian Fleming, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the subsequent musical film, were inspired by the romance of Zborowski's exploits. In the third book, Zborowski is a major character, where his relationship to Chitty is explored and his future deadly crash is alluded to. From Wikipedia