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Auction: 316 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1201

Simpson, Wallace & the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII. On the tenth of December, 1936, Edward VIII abdicated the British throne to marry the American socialite Wallis Simpson, who was once divorced and at the time separated from her second husband. Addressing the public in a radio broadcast the next day, Edward said: "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love." Simpson´s divorce was finalized in May, and the couple was married at the Château de Candé in France, June 3, 1937. A pair of B&W Photos of the couple, 7x9 and 4 ¾ x 6 1/5. The first, shows the couple outside by a palm-lined balustrade with a large group; the second depicts Wallis and Edward on a bench beneath a palm conversing with two men. It is possibly the photos were taken in Portugal, where the couple stayed after fleeing their Paris apartment following the German advance into France. Both prints are clean and problem free, Very Fine.

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