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Article: `The woman I love' is dead
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 25, 1986
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PARIS Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson, "the woman I love" for
whom King Edward VIII gave up the British throne in 1936, died a
bedridden recluse yesterday. She never achieved what had become an
obsession with her: recognition as "her royal highness."
The duchess of Windsor was 89 and seldom had been seen outside
her home near Paris since her husband died in 1972.
Her death, attributed to bronchial pneumonia, was reported in
London by Buckingham Palace, which said she will be buried in Windsor
Castle's Frogmore Garden next to her husband. Queen Victoria and
Prince Albert also are buried there.
The palace announcement said a funeral is scheduled Tuesday at
the castle and will be ...