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Article: Love story that rocked world // The Duchess of Windsor: A friend's intimate portrait
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 4, 1986
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ABOVE: The duke in 1953. RIGHT: The grieving duchess before the
duke's funeral. ABOVE: "I could find no reason why this most
glamorous of men should be seriously attracted to me," Wallis Simpson
wrote. LEFT: English citizens took to the streets in protest.
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The death of the American born Duchess of Windsor marks the end
of a sensational love story that once rocked the world. In this
excerpt of The Duchess of Windsor, English author Diana Mosley traces
the extraordinary history of Bessie Wallis Warfield, her first two
husbands, her subsequent divorces, and the stormy controversy that
led King Edward VIII to renounce his throne rather than be ...