Browsing Tag

King Edward VIII

2 posts
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor pose for a portrait after their wedding at the Chateau de Cande, in Monts, France, on June 3, 1937

Inside the miserable wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson

Held in a French chateau that was more used to wealth than…
Wallis Simpson was so ill in her final years that one of her closest friends was 'delighted' when told the news of her passing, only wishing it had come sooner. Above: The Duchess of Windsor at home in the Bois de Bologne in 1974, the year before she became seriously unwell

Wallis Simpson spent her final years desperate and alone in a grand Paris house that became a 'slum'

She was so ill in her final years that one of her…