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Article: DUKE OF WINDSOR'S DESK ON BLOCK CHARITY AUCTION WILL FEATURE PIECE ON WHICH HE SIGNED AWAY THRONE TO MARRY A DIVORCEE.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- July 8, 1997
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Byline: Verena Dobnik Associated Press
NEW YORK -- The desk at which the Duke of Windsor signed away his throne for the woman he loved will be auctioned off in September along with more than 40,000 objects from the couple's home in Paris.
For nine days in New York, Sotheby's will offer mementos of one of the great love stories of our time, the auction house said Monday.
The highlights include the ``Abdication Desk'' at which the duke, having reigned as King Edward VII for less than a year, signed his abdication in 1936 to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. As king, and head of the Church of England, he could not marry a divorced woman.
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