This story has been in the public domain for years. This is a new wrinkle on well known material for anyone who has bothered to read everything.
Thanks, yes, I know. Can't say I've read everything, but darn near it.
This story has been in the public domain for years. This is a new wrinkle on well known material for anyone who has bothered to read everything.
Dearest Zonk, may I respectfully add a suggestion? Sometimes some large online book sellers have copies of that book.They truly lived well.
What a gorgeous home....some of its so over the top but it works.
If anyone gets a chance, they should check out The Windsor Style by Suzy Menkes. I think it's out of print but you might run across the book online or something. The pictures of the garden at the Villa are simply breathtaking
Here's an article by Hugo Vickers. Wallis Simpson: Robbed, abused and alone, the Duchess of Windsor's last days | Daily Mail Online
Things were gradually sold or given away. Al Fayed is supposed to have sold the last of it after he bought the Windsor's home.
No one deserves to die that way, but there are numerous reasons why this could have happened. Neither her or the Duke were French nationals, there was no family to speak of. Fault does not fall square on the royal family. Where was Wallis's family? There were no nieces, nephews, etc? As far as the staff goes, no seems to have been around long term to know what was in the house, and what had been removed.
I wonder though...did Wallis ever intended to marry him..I think she was quite content to be the mistress. Things snowballed and there you are...
LaRae
My grandmother's uncle/cousin or something like that was in the British cabinet in the 1930s and wrote to a number of family members during George V's reign that there had already been informal talks about what to do with Edward as he was clearly unsuitable to be king - then Wallis came along, and that gave them the excuse they were looking for.
I used to have two of those letters - one was sent with my mother's model of the Silver Jubilee coach from 1935 - but have lost them in the moves I have done over the years (still have the coach).
There is a lot of evidence that the excuse was convenient and if it hadn't been Wallis they would have found another way to force him to go as he was not up to the job.
I was going to add to Iluvbertie's comment by bringing up the George V's "ruin himself in 12 months" quote about David/Edward VIII, however I did not know about the second quote! This is me right now --->Another evidence of how sceptical even the Royal family itself was of Edward is how George V is to have said "After I'm dead the boy will ruin himself in 12 months" or even more poignantly, especially on this day "I pray to God that my eldest son will never marry and have children, and that nothing will come between Bertie and Lilibet and the throne."
The photo was seriously airbrushed - the photoshop of the day...Wallis Simpson who stole King Edward VIII's heart's mementos to be auctioned | Daily Mail Online
I don't think I have seen the first photo before she looks stunning I never thought of her being good looking before
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