A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

" Later that year they were offered the use of a house by the Paris municipal authorities. Wallis Simpson predicted to society hostess Sibyl Colefax 'two people will suffer' because of 'the workings of a system' . Ancestors


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Edward married Wallis six months later after which Wallis Simpson was formally known as the Duchess of Windsor without the style "Her Royal Highness". Two years later after Edward's accession as king Wallis divorced her second husband and Edward proposed to her. She was instead styled as "Her Grace" a style normally reserved only for non-royal dukes and duchesses.