The Duke had sacked several nurses, but seemed to like Julie because she hailed from his wife’s hometown.Apart from her, he had no other company in the evenings apart from his pug dog, Black Diamond.During the two weeks Julie was with the former King, he was never once visited by his wife, whose quarters were on the same floor of their home, but separated by what Wallis liked to call ‘the boudoir’. Although mortally ill, Edward could not resist raising, for the last time, the possibility of Wallis being given the appellation ‘Her Royal Highness’. The Duke had become such a bore that guests would inwardly shudder if they were seated next to him at dinner.They had a rigid daily routine: their 11.30 morning meeting, her lunch with friends, his afternoon golf, his 7pm date with a bottle of 25-year-old malt, her 7:30 hairdresser appointment, their dinner party at 9.If they went to a restaurant and their conversation faltered, the Duchess insisted that they recite the alphabet to one another so that other diners would see their animation.No one really cared about them any more; international society was turning to new darlings such as Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Aristotle and Jacqueline Onassis.In 1972, by which time the 78-year-old Duke had cancer of the throat, the Queen and Prince Philip paid him a courtesy call during an official visit to France. your own Pins on Pinterest Such was Wallis’s respect for Donahue’s taste that he was the first male outsider to be invited to look over an 18th century mill house near Paris, which the Windsors bought in 1952.Tongues wagged as her friendship with him intensified. Wallis Simpson bekam zeitlebens keine Kinder Jahrhunderts – eher die größte Lüge? So they were styled the duke and duchess of Windsor, and lived in exile in Bois de Boulogne in Paris until both their deaths his in 1972 hers in 1986. When asked about the rift between him and the Windsors, he quipped: ‘I’ve abdicated.’Wallis didn’t seem too perturbed by her loss: her next project was to ‘write’ her autobiography, with the help of a ghostwriter.The first candidate, however, soon dropped out after discovering that the Duchess had only a passing acquaintance with the truth, changing her story at whim.The second, Boston-born Cleveland Amory, who spent six months talking to the Duke and Duchess and their friends, was shocked at how gratuitously vicious Wallis could be to her husband, often leaving him in tears.She’d allow her pug dogs into the sitting-room, but keep the Duke’s dogs out, much to his distress.Or she’d be furious when he kept singing jingles from adverts he’d seen on television, or used Americanisms such as ‘I guess’ or ‘making a buck’.‘The Duchess was a complicated person — cold, mean-spirited, a bully and a sadist,’ says Amory’s stepdaughter Dr Gaea Leinhardt. Demnach wurde sie mit einem XY Chromosom geboren und wäre dadurch – rein genetisch – ein Mann gewesen. LIebe zu Wallis Simpson: Ein Herz und keine Krone. 237, 242Letter from Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 21 May 1937, Royal Archives, QEQM/PRIV/RF, quoted in When telling a story of how Wallis complained about blacks being allowed on Sebba, pp. ‘Get out.’ They never saw him again. Sie war die Frau, die König Edward VIII. Wallis Simpson und ihr Edward hatten keine Kinder. The kick was so hard that it left her bleeding and the Duke had to help her to a sofa.This was a lese-majesty too far. One had the impression she was either drugged or drunk.‘She spent all her time with effeminate young men, staying in nightclubs until dawn and sending the Duke home early: “Buzz off, mosquito.”'Wallis knew, of course, that the abdication had made divorce from the Duke of Windsor unthinkable'The beginning of the dalliance with Donahue marked not only a new coolness between Wallis and Herman, but also a step change in her treatment of Edward.She’d always been sarcastic and sharp-tongued — ‘I wasn’t castle-born like you,’ was a frequent retort — and now she became increasingly cruel.‘Will I be going to bed in tears tonight?’ was the Duke’s abject refrain when she was being particularly unpleasant.Yet he seems to have taken a lifelong delight in this degradation.As veteran courtier Ulick Alexander observed, the former King enjoyed the ‘sexual perversion of self-abasement’.Donahue was ever-present, joining the Windsors for dinner, late-night cabarets and parties.