The Heartbreak Behind The Marriage of King Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson | Secret Letters | Timeline

It has been impossible for me to carry the heavy burden of responsibility. This is a love story, but it's not the love story we always thought it was. Wallis Simpson. The Duchess of Windsor was a sensation for some. The Scarlet Woman who attracted Edward VIII. his throne to others half of the greatest romance of the 20th century, a woman and a man who sacrificed everything for each other, but hidden in an English attic, an extraordinary and revealing cache of

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and diaries has been discovered that transforms the story of Wallace and his loves I wake up at some point in the night and I hear your footsteps coming down the hallway of the apartment and there you are with the Evening Standard under your arm this surprising discovery shows that just before the abdication of Edward Wallace Simpson was desperate to avoid marrying him and plotting to escape I have decided to leave perhaps forever I can't tell Jim, this proves that the divorce that allowed Edward to finally marry Wallace was illegal collusion.

I'm going to let Wallace divorce me of course, please destroy this and reveal that Wallace is done. Spending his life with the wrong man and wal

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to two years after marrying Edward, what can I say when I stand at the grave of all that was us? ? I can only cry as I say goodbye and squeeze your hand very tightly and pray to God Wallace. This long-hidden trove of newly discovered documents by Wallace Simpson and Sieber's latest biographer contains an incomparable find. 15 intimate letters written by Wallace herself at the time of the event that shocked Great Britain on December 10, 1936 one of the most momentous days in the history of England a few hours ago I fulfilled my last duty as

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and emperor this package of 15 Letters took my breath away when I first read them.

That they were written was extraordinary, it was truly mind-blowing. The first of Wallace's new letters was written 46 days before his abdication. Okay, so it says Felixstowe on the 25th October postmark, so it's two days ahead of schedule. She appears at Ipswich Assizes for her divorce from Ernest Simpson on Sunday 25 October 1936. A middle-aged woman returns to a house she rents in Felixstowe, not far from Ipswich, in a car belonging to Edward VIII. She has been the king's mistress for the past two years. She should be relishing the prospect of divorcing her husband and marrying the king who loves her so desperately, but she is not.

Wallis Simpson is scared and alone and she would do anything to get out of it. At this moment, she takes the pen from her and chooses the most unlikely possible shoulder to cry on and here she is writing to Ernest Simpson, the man she is divorcing. I really can't concentrate I really can't concentrate on anything right now dear, I have had a lot of problems and complications with everyone, me too. I'm terrified of court etc. I feel small and licked by all this. I can't imagine what kind of mess I'm leaving behind. I feel sorry for myself.

I feel sorry for the king. I hate stuffy British minds and last but not least I don't understand what the cause of all the misery is, give me courage 2:15 Tuesday, love Wallis, I'm so alone, my God, your loneliness screams at me because, of course Of course, she was terrified and who does she turn to? In all of this, she turns to Ernest, the man she is trying to divorce, of course she must not communicate with the man she must hate because of her adultery two days later, at 2:15 p.m. Wallace Simpson arrived at Ipswich Assizes for the divorce hearing.

He was so afraid that the divorce would spread in American and European newspapers. The British press remained silent, but those in the know felt a sensation in the air. It seemed like Edward was on his way to marrying an American Divorcee, I was seven years old, my father and mother were very involved in the whole application thing, you know, so I mean it was just a constant conversation from morning until the night, as I remember the day after the divorce hearing. Wallace returned from London to the house the king had rented him, from there he could only watch as events unfolded at a disconcerting pace on November 3.

Edward still before his people, the young and handsome monarch, just ten months into his reign, held the state opening of Parliament, but the only thing he could think about was getting married. Wallace was downright in love. I don't think anything crossed his mind except how wonderful she was, how beautiful she was, how much he loved her and how much he was perfectly sure that all the British people would love her. When they met her, her dream was to be crowned with Wallis Simpson at her side as Queen of Her, but to Edwards' Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, the prospect of Queen Wallace was abhorrent.

She was a twice-divorced American outsider. Baldwin knew that from the point of view of the British people, she was acceptable to us, so he saw that this was going towards the impossible and that one way or another it had to be stopped. The Prime Minister and the King were on a collision course for the first time. The abdication was looming at the last moment. On November Day, the Crystal Palace, site of the triumphal Great Exhibition of 1851, burned down, perhaps in deference to the upcoming self-immolation of a king. That same day, new documents reveal a surprising second letter from Wallace Simpson to Ernest, the husband who had just been in court for a divorce showing that he was planning to escape the clutches of the Kings is Wallace writing with Wallace's signature on the side Monday Ernest dear I won't be able to see you after all, which I'm very sorry for, but I've decided to leave at some point this week.

I can't tell you a gem. I'm going because I know what would happen, so I'm really just telling you the old hat-hunting story. I'll stay away until after the coronation or maybe forever. She can't say it, so she's desperate to escape and get out of this and she knows the King won't let her, so she tells him that she's going to Paris to buy more hats in the hopes that he'll swallow them. That old story, she obviously used it before, rest assured that all the things in her house will be returned to her. The house she is referring to is a house that the king had rented to her and that had become a nightmarish prison for her because the photographers and the American press were camped outside and she couldn't even go out to get her hair done or her clothes done. nails; she had been denied the kind of routine that had become hers.

She now saw what trouble she had gotten herself into the next day before she could do it. make the story of the Wallace and Edwards affair leak finally appear in the British press the British people recoiled the double divorcee who got involved with the cake with the king and the Kings were going to try to get married I mean, an absolutely unbelievable horror Wallis was the rabbit on the Edward whisked her away to his retreat at Windsor Park and arranged for her to be taken to France. He assigned one of her staff to protect her. Wallace had wanted to escape herself, but now that he was in the King's hands he had lost control of her. final situation he could no longer choose where to go so it was a terrible moment the king was absolutely out of his mind losing Wallace there were tears in his eyes when he said goodbye to her it was his last very emotional dinner and I served it to him a madman he has to sympathize because There he was with the woman he loved leaving his life only temporarily as he was sure but still leaving leaving him abandoned surrounded by his enemies as he saw it in a hostile nation was for him a very dark moment, it was a hair-raising journey.

The King not only lent his Buick but also his chauffeur, and the chauffeur soon realized that he was actually being followed. Wallace was cowing him in the back with a blanket over her head waiting for her to do it. It is not recognized that I am in 1936, we do not think about the paparazzi, but that is exactly what happened two days later, on December 6. Wallace arrived at Villa Lu, yay, in the hills above his relatives, and in letters and phone calls he begged Edward to stay. King and not abdicate just to marry her, he refused to listen, he had to have her to know she was dead, no one was going to keep her and the only way to be sure in his mind was to get married, but Wallace was more desperate than ever.

To avoid marrying Edward, he made one last attempt to escape the executioner by drafting a note to the British government that simply stated with the deepest personal pain: Mrs. Simpson wishes to announce that she has abandoned any intention of marrying Her Majesty. . She tried very genuinely to get out of this situation but it was too late. The king was never going to let her out into the outside world. Wallace had gotten her her man, but for her the abdication was a disaster, she was facing a life sentence with Edward and even more unbearably during these weeks of turmoil, she had begun to understand that the only man she truly loved was the man whom she was divorcing, her husband Ernest, what the hell had Wallace done? such a monumental mistake now we all have the new king on December 10, 1936 King Edward's eighth mistress Wallis Simpson, now taking refuge in the south of France, listened to his abdication speech and cried not for him but for herself For the next four months, she and Edward were unable to be together, since, under 1930s law, that could be seen as evidence that they had illegally conspired in a divorce from Wallace.

Now Edward, the Duke of Windsor, took refuge in Austria, persecuted by the world's press. Wallace was isolated and scared, and like her newly discovered letters reveal that the person she chose to seek comfort from was the man she was divorcing and the person she blamed for her situation was the man she was now destined to be with. get married on Saturday in the bathroom VA Ernest none of this mess and this emptiness when you wake up is mine making it Peter Pan's new plan Peter Pan, of course, is the reference to the king that she and Ernest had between them and had obviously argued many times how the king was this child who would never grow up.

I miss you and I worry about you, oh. Darling, wasn't life lovely and sweet and simple? While Wallace sat trapped in her French villa there was plenty of time to reflect on an extraordinary eight-year partnership with the husband she was leaving her with and too late to realize that she loved her, she met Ernest Simpson. Ten years earlier, in New York, he was half-American, half-English, and had fought for Britain in the First World War. He became every inch the officer and gentleman his family still remembers fondly. Well, he was just a good person to us as his great-nephews.

He was an extremely nice and kind guy, so we were worried that they would almost think Harry was Wallace's godfather, the fairy godfather arrived at just the right time, she was separated from her first husband, Spencer, an American naval aviator with whom She had married when she was only 19. The

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had seemed like an escape from her childhood home in Baltimore, where life had been hard. Her father died when she was a baby. She and her mother later became dependent on her wealthy in-laws. In life Wallace's mother became a paid hostess at a club it was really a very hard life and she was absolutely determined to have security and that for a woman in Wallace's position and time, of course, had to come Through a man, Ernest was also married, but Wallace used his tricks to get it. focused on someone intended to listen is eye contact partly is making a man feel like he is the most special person in the world Ernest and Wallace divorced their respective spouses and in 1928 they married Wallace wrote to his mother I am very Le I have love and he is kind.

I can't keep wandering around seriously for the rest of my life. Wallace had found the security she longed for. They moved to London, bought apartment number five in Bryanston Court and set out to rise through the ranks of society through a mutual fund. his friend Wallace knew a guaranteed ladder to the greatest lady Thelma Furness, Edward's mistress, Prince of Wales, Edward was still in popular opinion, a heroic figure, he was a handsome young prince, he was handsome, he was extremely well made for Being the monarch everyone assumed that he would even one day get married, settle down, have children and show the succession.

He was perfect in January 1931. Wallace and Ernest were invited by Thelma's sister to a party at a country house in Leicestershire. There the most handsome and desirable bachelor in the world was waiting for them. completely different from the rest of the family before him, I mean George V, for example, his father had, you know, absolutely rigid, majestic abs, all this and here's a kid in a peach-colored cap smoking, winking, You know, which was fine until my mid-30s, but then you know, at that point I was sure I wasn't as young as I used to be and the winks didn't come as easily as they used to.

At that moment, the people closest to him werebecoming a little more doubtful, it was quite clear. For them, but he was frivolous, irresponsible, not really prepared to do serious work. Edward liked Wallace and Cheyenne. Ernest became frequent guests at his weekend retreat at Fort Belvedere in Windsor Park and then, in January 1934, Thelma Furness had to go to America Wallace. had become very friendly with Velma Furness, they often had lunch at the Ritz and talked about all kinds of things and at one of these lunches Ferber Furness, then he unwisely suggested to his friend that one is Simpson, will you take care of the little man like Did you know him?

And she kept a very good eye on him and, of course, she writes to him about Bessie because it's so exciting to have the Prince of Wales stop by Branston Court. I think I enjoy it. I'm the comedy relief, but I always have Ernest hanging around my neck so everything is safe and when Thelma returned and we had another lunch together, she suddenly saw the Prince of Wales take a lettuce leaf from his plate and Simpson's sauce playfully busy she slapped his hand and everything was different. Thelma picked up. that she immediately with this gesture made her eyes meet the lady.

The Simpsons and clearly Wallace had become the princess that summer Edward invited Wallace to join his Christmas party in the south of France. One of the guests observed him following her like a dog when Wallace's whirlwind hit him. He was completely defenseless. He had nothing. To return to her inner self, at the end of that summer vacation, the Prince slipped a Cartier velvet bag containing a diamond and sapphire amulet into Wallace's hand, and over the years she amassed an astonishing fortune in precious stones and elegant objects that he laid down as his feet as a tribute to his supernatural powers, my mother and I believe that, like so many other people in society, he thought it was a girl digger that Ernest Simpson left in the London apartment he was haunted with Wallace's royalty because he joked that she had been to Peter Pan's Neverland kingdom.

She was also doing very well in the royal connection story. The story is that the Prince of Wales had a tweed specially woven for him from which he made the Innova mermaid fall and my great-uncle Ernest Simpson told him. I admired it a lot and Prince said well, dear friend, you know there's some tweed left, you can have it and it's dead, it's never given up, so you could have a look at it in due time, which is exactly the same. one who went to the war in Wales and of course there is the slightly rude analyst Horace who says that he actually changed his wife Renee and became rather more useful.

Edward opened the door for Ernest to join his Masonic Lodge with admission to his wealthy friends. Wallace and Ernest were playing. as a team for their own enjoyment and benefit, the royal mistress game had a clear set of rules that required Ernest's participation. Okay, having affairs with gentlemen, having affairs with married ladies, not girls, just married ladies, look, she wouldn't have asked Wallace herself. I don't think she would have always had to have her husband with people who knew she was having an affair with someone, you know, they would put them in the next room, since there was a country house on the weekends and that kind of things.

Well, but it was simply the way things looked, it was the outward spectacle that counted and appearances had to be kept up. I imagine people did exactly the same with Camilla Wallace, she understood the nature of the game better than anyone and assured her Aunt Bessie that it will all continue. The same as before, that is, the three of us are the best of friends. I'll try to be smart enough to keep them both. She was completely convinced, but a younger model would appear and the prince would get tired of her and then she would need her. ernest as his safety net and ernest was only too happy to play along meanwhile, wallace and ernest went out to make hay, the royals opened up unimaginable delights among the cache of new documents found by wallace

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's biographer and sieber is an eye-opening collection from Letters written by Ernest to his mother in America recording the good times on April 16, 1935.

My dear and only mother, the Prince, took other married couples and ourselves to the Grand National Steeplechase near Liverpool . She had a special car on the train and so did we. We were greeted by a fleet of engines, had a large lunch with Lord Sefton, the owner of the course had a splendid view from his private stand, it was great fun, lots of love, joined by Wallace and a big warmly sincere hug, but on this era a small The shadow began to float over the happy triangle. Edward was showing an intensity of passion that was alarming.

He began writing Wallace extraordinary love letters expressed in private, childish language. Most of us, if our first love letters were revealed to the public, would feel sadly ashamed. an exceptionally virulent case that repelled the childish nation of correspondence speaks of a boy and a girl speaks of them in the third person a boy loves a girl more and more speaks of when we will be one with his initials being Wallace and Edward and, therefore Of course, there's a play on words with Royal that we're involved in as well. Wallace, although she responds and writes as if she is in love with her, is not the same type of passionate outpouring seen in her letters to Edwards' obsession with Wallace. it had become overwhelming why it has long been a mysterious love I mean no one has ever explained love you fall in love he did in spades you can talk about love being crazy love was an obsession for him and he was blinded by it love thought she was Helen of Troy, no one else wanted to say, she had a face like an old boot, we thought, and she was very, very austere and Lampton George, and even at the age of 23, when she didn't turn me on much, she didn't always say. having learned one or two little tricks while she was in China, which greased the wheels quite dramatically, but did not awaken her manhood.

I mean, he had had many girlfriends before she was funny, she was much smarter. he was she was extremely witty it was a kind of American one-liner, you know, I think what really attracted me was that she lectured him with a disrespect, almost a contempt that no English girl could have done, no matter how independent she was. . she is still the future king madam. Simpson didn't give a damn about the fact that he was a future king, she was absurd and Akron ISM and treated him like trash and he deserved it, it was almost like the worse he behaved the more he needed her and could feel.

It gave him a sort of license to behave really badly, but he wanted her more and more. I suppose if one seeks to explain this, there is something in their relationship that he craved forgiveness, so the moment of forgiveness was actually sublime. This relationship went easily. visible when in 1935 Edward again invited Wallace to join him on a summer holiday in the south of France, she only had to lift a finger and he would do exactly what she said, you know it was too easy, boy, Wallace led the house, organized the menus and sent bossy little notes to Edward or David, as she and her family called him, he took it from David.

I didn't see any green vegetables on the menu. I'm sorry to bother you, but I like that everyone thinks you do things well, maybe I'm quite I appreciate you David, I think it would be nice to be able to choose drinks on the porch outside the lounge. I also think you're a very nice guy. This summer vacation was Wallace's longest period of separation yet from her husband Ernest. Bessie Wallace wrote in advance to her aunt Ernest that she will give you a summary of our life in London since the royals arrived. He thinks it's a big joke, so Wallace doesn't know Ernest's joke. was beginning to run out of steam at the beginning of the year, Wallace had invited an old school friend, Mary Kirk, to London to keep Ernest company while she cavorted with Edward.

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was falling apart and she was at a loose end, so Wallace thinks I already know I'll ask. Mary and Muriel entertain Ernest, that will keep Ernest happy. Mary and Ernest got along well now in New York, met again and began an affair. Wallace didn't know anything about that. Ernest remained the lord. trustworthy just before his return from America he wrote to Aunt Bessie I will be glad to see that angelic Ernest again here all the same and too many invitations appear what a blow I will be when a young beauty appears and removes my tracks anyway I am ready, but storm clouds were gathering over Wallace in a way she could never have predicted.

It wasn't just Maria's entrance. There was about to be a seismic change in Edward's life just before midnight on January 20, 1936. George V died. Edward Prince. of Wales was now King Edward the Eighth. He was also head of the Church of England, which not only disapproved of divorce but did not allow divorced people to remarry in the church. He knew why he should marry his Simpson. He knew what he was destined to be king with. He had not been able to put those two things together. Suddenly his father died. He was on the throne. Every time two things were together he had to decide how to play it and take immediate action on something that until then had been deferred to more deferred Wallis Simpson, the lover of Edward assumed that his duties and status as monarch would soon overshadow their relationship.

She couldn't have been more wrong. Surprisingly, her need for Wallace increases. Wallace finds it a suffocating necessity. In fact, he is almost paralyzed as a king, almost unable to do so. do anything without her there from the beginning, even when a newsreel camera accidentally caught Wallace and Edward together watching his Proclamation as King, he wanted her by his side, she wrote to him, they're not busy, I had to be available of the new King. and to say that he is lonely he needs company and affection, otherwise he is wrong Ernest, of course, you have been wonderful about it here is the composition of a saint and too good for people like me in the spring of 1936 Edward was more obsessed than Never with Wallace and determined to marry her, her adoration put Wallace at the top of society.

The hostesses believe that if they get Wallace they will have access to the king, so this is a very exciting moment for her at the same time as the husband. of Wallace, Ernest Simpson, was getting tired. being the Wallflower, she asked Edward man to man if he intended to marry Wallis. Edward responded: Do you really think he would be crowned without Wallace at my side? That night I sincerely agreed to make way for Edward and divorce Wallace and then, in May 1936, Mary. Kirk Wallace's oldest friend with whom Ernest had begun an affair was invited to stay in Branston.

Court matters came to a head, there was an ugly scene in Simpson's apartment. Wallace was absolutely furious and accused Mary of seducing Ernest. I mean, that's rich since she had set all this up and Mary immediately packs her bags, leaves Branson Square and never speaks to Wallace again, that's the end at this point Wallace made his fateful decision, he would submit to the lawsuit of Edwards to divorce Ernest and take more risks. life, you see, I'm 40 years old and I feel like I should follow my own instincts when it comes to my life and I'm quite willing to pay for a mistake.

She firmly believes that this is her last chance to achieve something and maybe she just might be queen. Wallace and that everyone would actually pay attention to her and life would be fantastic and she would have achieved the unthinkable. Ernest accepted the usual way of getting a divorce, he would be caught staying in a hotel with another woman to present evidence of adultery since then. That woman has been known as Miss Buttercup Kennedy, but among the cache of new documents is a secret diary of Mary Kirk that shows it was her. Mary wrote that she was Wallace's scapegoat.

Wallace really was a manipulator and from reading Mary Kirk's diary it is clear that Wallace was now on a slippery slope this is the Faustian pact that Wallace had made she was really using people he did things like invite Mary to the opera and then , at the last minute, Wallace didn't show up and he was telling people that he sees, the mayor is having an affair with my husband, she's going to the opera with him and I can't go, so he wasn't really just manipulating He was absolutely using them for his own purposes, although Mary blamed it all on Wallis.

One of the newly discovered letters to her mother made it clear that Edward, and not Wallace, had destroyed his marriage. It's a great shame as we were really so nice and never had an unhappy moment together until the mess started. I'm going to let Wallace divorce me. Of course, and the case will probably be heard in October. Wallace, of course, is not asking for any alimony. Please destroy this. There were many reasons to destroy the letter. It would have shown that those involved had colluded in the divorce, which was illegal. There was a riskgenuine. that someone would try to present evidence of complicity that would, in effect, throw out the divorce.

Wallace was away on his third summer vacation with Edward sailing along the Dalmatian coast, but the fun was almost over. Nollan's cruise would take a devastating turn in On the way home, Wallace stopped in Paris waiting for her. There were sensational American press clippings and photographs sent by Don't Bessie show her intimacy with the king? It suddenly occurred to her that she was getting carried away by how huge Catlin was going to be. being and how her whole life was going to change and then she writes Edward a very eloquent letter that I really need to get back to in earnest for so many reasons that please be patient and read the first one, that they were so terribly nice and understood how to move on. . together very well, which is truly an art in marriage.

I'm sure you and I would just create a mess together. I want you to be happy. I'm sure I can't make you be, and honestly, I don't think you can. Goodbye, us. everyone says that Wallace the effect on Edward ates was dramatic he responded by threatening to cut his throat if Wallace left him he made it quite clear that he could not contemplate the instantaneous possibility of a separation he said he would commit suicide well of course Wallace recognized that there was no way he could have blood on his hands there was no turning back in October wallace moved into his rented house in Felixstowe to await his divorce hearing ernest moved out of his flat in Branston Court and went to live at the Guards Club in Mayfair from there he wrote to him to Wallace a letter that, despite his affair with Mary, showed where his heart really was.

I think something in me quietly died when I closed the apartment door for the last time tonight. I have no tears left to shed. I know. Somewhere in your heart there is a small flame burning for me, guard my love carefully and do not let it go out, if only in memory of the sacred and beautiful things that have once been. I pray God revives her again and brings me back You answered me from Felixstowe Wallace answered me with the divorce hearing flashing in front of her like a knife, give me courage.2:15 Tuesday, I love Wallace, I feel so alone.

Wallace was stuck in the countdown to abdication and a lifetime burdened to Edward was underway and to fulfill my duties as king Edward the 8th had abdicated, but the decree absolute for Wallace Simpson's divorce was still months away. It could happen and they could be together. Wallace was hiding in the south of France, but as his newly discovered letters show, it was not her future husband Edward that she wanted to be with but Ernest, the husband she was divorcing. Worry about you Wallace while Wallace was so lost Ernest Ernest was now coming to terms with the separation from her he wrote to Wallace that she had gone too far with Edward to come back I want you to believe, but I do believe that you did everything in your power. power to prevent the final catastrophe and you can be sure that no one has felt more deeply for you than me and your life would have been the same if you had broken it, I mean could you have gone back to the old life? and forgotten the fairyland through which you passed, my daughter, I do not believe it.

Ernest understood better than anyone Wallace's turmoil and the empty future he faced with the exiled king. He wrote to his mother. I don't see much happiness ahead for those two poor people who have made this mess, what will their life be like while Wallace waited for that afterlife? She wrote again to Ernest. Perhaps it is the most moving letter of all. The first on February 16. Ernest. Dear Ernest, Dear life. There is colossal boredom here. I don't go places. and I think it is more dignified to be silent, one hopes that the name does not appear in the newspapers, but even doing nothing is not protection against there every ten.

I wake up in the night at some point and think that I must be lying on that strange J for a long time and listening to your Footsteps are heard down the hallway of the flat and there you are the Evening Standard under your arm. I can't believe something like this happened to people who got along so well at least it should never have been the way it is now, write to me. times please and above all make your life again carefully you are so good and sweet my dearest love to you Wallace but for Ernest everything was over, he knew that completing the divorce was the only answer and as he told his mother, he couldn't .

It's not too soon, frankly, I'm not in any way eager to see the divorce altered. I don't see how I could live with Wallace again. All good things go to waste and I don't want to be tied for life to someone I know. I Can't Live Alone Two days later, news came that decree nisi for Wallace and Ernest's divorce would be granted. Wallace moved from his family to a new base, the Chateau de coeur in Nile Valley. Edward was finally allowed to join on 12 May 1937. the coronation not of Edward VIII but of George VI on this great day from his place of exile the man Wallace chose to write to was Ernest Dear Ernest how exciting London must be today if you only started with two brushes in a bucket Wallace three weeks later on June 3, Edward and Wallace were married, no member of the royal family attended, he thought at least his brothers would come, he thought at least Lord Mountbatten would come, the godfather, and one by one it became clear and none of them.

They were coming and Blair became sadder when even his closest friend, a man who had escorted Mississip to France, Brando said he finally realized that he was incompatible with his role, as there were not enough tenants to come, so that in the end he was left with a handful of his family in considerable parasites and I am a depressing little ceremony, it was a sad moment for someone who was only a few months old or to be king of England, Wallace had always hoped there would be an element of an alternative . coronation but it wasn't like that at all Constance Spry had gone out to make incredible flowers, too amazing for the small number of people who were there.

Cecil Beaton had taken some beautiful photographs, but there is a chilling emptiness to the entire wedding. Yes, Wallace looked. beautiful in her Boucher Wallace man suit incredibly thin hips this type of halo hat that is the defining image of this great romance but there is a coldness to the whole thing with only a few people there a handful of people there in November 1937 Ernest married Mary Wallace continued to miss him more than two years after her marriage to Edward. She wrote to him again admitting that her pride, as she put it, had pushed her over the edge.

You can be sure that a day never goes by without a few hours thought about you and for you and again in my listing Prayers at Night with Love Wallace and this seems to be the last card in the series and there really is no other card. after this in 1938, where Wallace writes to her in vain, she is closing this chapter. Ernest and Wallace embarked on their new, separate lives. Ernests would bring early sadness. Mary was diagnosed with cancer and she died at age 45. Ernest remarried and his fourth marriage lasted. Happily until Her Death Wallace and Edwards' marriage lasted until Edward's death in 1972.

She did her best to project an image of her and Edward as the happiest couple in the world. She was a good guide. You sat next to her, which I did much later. my life several times in Paris after the war she was good company if you found yourself sitting next to him which thank goodness she rarely did it was a nightmare he had absolutely no conversation and he just had an incredibly amazing life Bored, she sacrificed a lot. who from time to time must have wondered about our sacrifice and as he walked wistfully behind her three feet behind him, quite disconsolate as she went from shop to shop, I would think he was completely bored, well, dad seemed like a pretty Garson's life, but I think that even though Garcé was a nice life, his life without her would have been a cigar look and he was happy in his kind of slavery in a way that would have seemed inconceivable to anyone who knew the path he he could still be playing in London, Wallace lived.

Until the age of 89 there was much talk of duty in the story of Wallace and Edward, in the end he did not fulfill his duty to his nation, but Wallace, by staying with him until the day he died, fulfilled hers. I think it is a lesson in be careful what you wish for, I think what is recognized is that this was a situation that she would have to live with and for the next 36 years she lived with a certain nobility, one can admire her for that twenty years Afterwards, he was totally in love. and it depended on her, if she was at a table having dinner and they ever left her, he would rush in two minutes to find out what was happening.

He was obsessed with her. Wallace was never obsessed with him. She did have a love. in her life, but it wasn't Edward. I think what the new letters show is that what has been perceived for so long as the most romantic love story of the century is actually not the love story we think it is, it's the true love story. What is revealed in these letters is Wallace's love for a serious man who could really offer him not only security, but security, happiness and well-being, which he finally realized was a calmer, deeper kind of love and worth a lot. more than the empty life and boredom, although briefly the excitement of jewelry and fabulous clothes, but having to live with a man whom she ridiculed in private on Saturday, October 30, sincerely dear, what can I say when I am standing next to the grave of all that we were?

Oh, my dearest dear Ernest, I can Just cry as I say goodbye and squeeze your hand very tight and pray to God Wallace.