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The Jewels King Edward VIII Gave To Wallis Simpson That Weren't His To Give

In the final days before abdication, at Fort Belvedere in Windsor Great Park, Edward VIII fastened an emerald bracelet around Wallis Simpson's wrist—stones whose provenance would be disputed for decades. What followed was not simply a love story told in gemstones, but a forty-year battle over beauty, ownership, and the price of choosing desire over duty. From Queen Mary's carefully catalogued royal vaults to a record-breaking Sotheby's auction in 1987, these jewels witnessed everything: constitutional crisis, wartime exile, systematic redesign, and legal disputes that reached Paris courts. Some pieces now rest behind museum glass, others vanished into private collections, and a few may have quietly returned to the Royal vaults—their current locations officially unknown. The question persists: did Edward have the right to give what he gave, and does it matter now? Somewhere, in a vault or on a wrist, the emeralds continue catching light, carrying their scandal like a flaw inside the stone—invisible until you know to look for it. Based on Royal Collection archives, Sotheby's auction records, museum provenance documentation, and verified correspondence spanning 1910-1987.