I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

" 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.