The life and the legend of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor is the stuff of tabloid gold headlines. She was the woman who beguiled a king enough for him to give up his throne, despite the fact that she was middle aged, twice divorced and not considered beautiful. A gold digger who set out to capture the heart of a weak and vulnerable man, some consider that Wallis actually saved the throne by saving Britain from someone who would’ve been a disastrous King, one with Nazi sympathising tendencies who had to be sent away to the far reaches of the Bahamas during World War Two. But, in a new novel, written…

In recent years there has been a rise in the number of first time landlords. Many people have chosen to invest their savings into property, with the boom in the housing market in the 1990s making this a good prospect for maximising the income you can make through savings. Owning two properties – one to live in and one to rent out, is no longer unusual, and the popularity of programmes like .’Homes Under The Hammer‘ has proven that being a landlord can be a good income choice. All property portfolios have to start somewhere, and a property portfolio can see a start to a career as a real estate…