Article: Letters tell love of duchess and ex-king

LONDON (UPI) After abdicating the throne of England, the former King Edward VIII wrote to Baltimore socialite Wallis Warfield Simpson that she was all he had left in the world and was all that he wanted, according to love letters published yesterday.

"I hide my face but send you all love," the twice-divorced Simpson wrote back as she waited to marry the man who gave up his crown in 1936 for "the woman I love."

Simpson, who died a bedridden recluse in Paris last week at the age of 89, had asked that the letters be published after her death in an effort to shed new light on the century's most powerful love story, said the Daily Mail, which printed the letters.

In another letter the ...

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