The abdicated King waited impatiently in Austria for Wallis’ divorce to become final, which it finally did on 3 May 1937. On 14 April, Edward wrote to Wallis, “This is just a line to say I love you more and more my own sweetheart and praying that the next eighteen days and nights won’t drag [read more]
Read part one here. Something surely had changed. The Prince began visiting her home several times a week, and Ernest was surprisingly tolerant of the entire situation. He found ways to excuse himself as Wallis and the Prince talked until the small hours. Ernest soon realised that they were growing apart, and by 1935 Wallis [read more]
On 3 May 1937, Wallis was granted her decree absolute, and she was now officially divorced from Ernest Simpson – they had been married for almost nine years. What had Wallis’ life been like as Mrs Simpson? Wallis and Ernest Aldrich Simpson had met sometime in 1926 as she waited out her divorce from Earl [read more]
From 1980, Wallis spent most of her days alone in a wheelchair. She was taken care of by nurses, who bathed her and put her hair in a bun. She often had to be spoon-fed, and periods of lucidity came and went. Eventually, the Countess of Romanones was allowed to visit her, though another friend [read more]
Mary, Princess Royal was the sister of King Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, and as such was the sister-in-law of the Duchess of Windsor. Mary and Edward were close in childhood, and she would be the first royal to visit the former King in exile. Mary continued to correspond with her [read more]
The Duchess of Windsor was widowed at the age of 76, and from then on, everything in their home at Bois de Boulogne reminded her of him. She remained behind with servants and a few friends. Her family in the United States was scattered, and any contact had long since evaporated. Several servants left her [read more]
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