The day that Wallis Simpson lost £1.3m of jewellery in an utterly mysterious Home Counties heist. But did the hard-up Duchess of Windsor steal her OWN jewels for the insurance cash, asks historian ALEXANDER LARMAN?

Edward later wrote to his brother, King George VI , saying he had discovered 'the bitter and costly way that Great Britain is no longer the secure and law-abiding country it used to be.'

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