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The Crown's Real Villain: The Scandals and Secrets of Wallis Simpson

In December 1936, King Edward VIII gave up the throne of the British Empire—the largest empire in human history—for Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American commoner. The establishment reviled her. The Queen Mother never forgave her. Churchill called her "a woman of limitless ambition." During World War 2, while Britain burned under the Blitz, Wallis and Edward were exiled to the Bahamas as Governor and his wife—kept far from London because MI5 suspected Nazi sympathies. She wanted to be Queen. She got a minor Caribbean posting and eternal exclusion. When she died in 1986, she was buried at Windsor—but the Royal Family barely attended, and her name remained poison for decades.