Wallis Simpson's Marriage Was Even More DISTURBING Than You Think

In a house in the Bois de Boulogne, the most famous bride of the twentieth century lay unable to speak, fed through a tube, while her lawyer turned old friends away at the gate. The story everyone knows is that she won — a king gave up an empire for her. Yet on the seventh of December 1936, Wallis Simpson publicly offered to withdraw from a situation she called unhappy and untenable. Days before her wedding, a legal document stripped her of the title her husband would demand for thirty-five years. Not one royal attended. Why she stayed begins in Leicestershire.