Wallis Simpson’s House Was Much NASTIER Than You Thought

In 1936, a King gave up his throne for Wallis Simpson. In 1953, the city of Paris lent the couple a house at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne for a token rent, and inside its gates the Duchess of Windsor was treated as the royal her husband's family had refused to make her. This documentary follows that house from the Windsors' small court of the 1950s and 60s, through the Queen's visit to the dying Duke in May 1972, to the fourteen years the Duchess spent there alone after his death. Those years were the nastiest part of her story. Her lawyer, Maître Suzanne Blum, took power of attorney, and historians and writers have described burned papers, changed locks, friends turned away and a woman who could no longer speak. After her death in 1986 came the sales, a new tenant in Mohamed Al Fayed, and one last royal visitor on 30 August 1997. Accounts of Blum's role are disputed, and this video sets out what is documented, what is alleged and who said it.