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Wallis Simpson

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle photographed for Time100 Talks in 2020

What’s driving Prince Harry to follow in Edward VIII’s ill-fated footsteps? Because, like the shamed monarch, the Duke of Sussex was adored before he gave up royal duty and married an American divorcee, writes CHRISTOPHER WILSON

What’s driving Prince Harry to increasingly follow in the Duke of Windsor’s…
The front page of the Daily Mail in October 1946 after the robbery had taken place

The day that Wallis Simpson lost £1.3m of jewellery in an utterly mysterious Home Counties heist. But did the hard-up Duchess of Windsor steal her OWN jewels for the insurance cash, asks historian ALEXANDER LARMAN?

Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, was frantic with worry.  On 16…
Leeds Castle in Kent - dubbed 'the loveliest castle in the world' by historian Lord Conway - is opening its doors to overnight guests this summer

You can now spend the night in Leeds Castle in Kent and stay in regal bedrooms that have hosted Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor and Charlie Chaplin

It has all the ingredients for a royally good getaway. Leeds Castle…
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…