![]() ![]() ![]() I took out my notebook and, glued to the sofa where I was sitting, immediately started transcribing. ![]() Edward Vlll had been King for just a few months and there was turmoil in Europe as Fascists and Nazis seized control where they could. The letters were still in their original envelopes so the postmarks -19 from various destinations – told me this was Wallis in the midst of her scandalous divorce from Ernest Simpson, a divorce that led to the abdication of the British monarch and nearly broke up the Empire. After a polite chat, describing my work and my findings thus far, my host went out and brought back a packet of blue letters, tied up with ribbon, saying:Īlmost immediately, as I struggled to decipher the familiar large round handwriting of Wallis Simpson, I realised I was holding dynamite. It was a routine interview with someone who had insisted they had nothing to tell me – a name to be ticked off my list. ![]()
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