The Paris home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will be turned into a museum, and it will also have a cafe. A heritage trust has been given the task of turning the run-down villa in the Bois de Boulogne into a permanent museum. The mansion includes 14 rooms and two-acre gardens. After the [read more]
Read part one here. When it finally came to planning a wedding, Edward assumed that at least some of his family would attend. A date was arranged by Louis Mountbatten, who later wrote, “I succeeded in fixing a date for your wedding that suited Bertie, George, etc.” But then “other people stepped in.” In the [read more]
Besides her future husband, it was probably Prince George, Duke of Kent and later also his wife Princess Marina, who had the most contact with Wallis, as members of the royal family. Prince George was King George V’s fourth son, and he first met Wallis in 1931 at the same time his brother did – [read more]
Upon King Edward VIII’s abdication, he immediately became a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with the qualification of Royal Highness. On 5 February 1864, Queen Victoria had issued Letters Patent saying, “that besides the Children of Sovereigns of these Realms, the Children of the Sons of any Sovereign of Great [read more]
By September 1936, Wallis’s marriage to Ernest had completely broken down, and Ernest was living with Mary Raffray, whom he would later marry. Wallis’s divorce had been set in motion, the King had settled a very generous sum of money on her, and he was determined to marry her. Wallis began to panic, wondering how [read more]
“Any woman who has been loved as I have been loved, and who, too, has loved, has experienced life in its fullness. To this I must add one qualification, one continuing regret: I have never known the joy of having children of my own.” The childlessness of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor has led [read more]
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