‘There is no reason to suggest she was a lesbian. I merely mention it as a way of getting your attention’This is the untold yarn of the Duchess of Windsor. Providing you skip past the stories that have already been told many times over. Wallis Simpson is perhaps one of the most notorious and,I believe, most misunderstood women of the 20th century. She is credited with being the temptress that brought down a king. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed, or it is possible to see her as a saviour of the British monarchy; a heroine who nobly sacrificed herself by fitting King Edward VIII’s lover and,in being the main lady in his abdication, prevented Britain from having a Nazi appeaser as its monarch.
As a child in Baltimore, or Wallis Warfield was subject to many girlhood passions. She fell madly in esteem with two teachers and several schoolfriends and sent them letters describing them as “beautiful little partridges that might suggest she was a lesbian. However,there is no reason to believe that either of these relationships ever went beyond the bounds of normal adolescent behaviour or that she was in any way a lesbian and I merely mention them as a way of getting your attention.
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Source: guardian.co.uk