Unseen photos of Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII with her ex-husband Ernest Simpson are to be auctioned
Taken during a visit by her Ernest to the couple s French home in the 1950s, 20 years after the abdication
Wallis and second husband Ernest divorced in 1937 but remained close - as these photographs reveal
Photos show Wallis and Ernest sharing a light-hearted moment over lunch, possibly taken by Edward
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor are pictured above in 1937, after his abdication
When they were first published in 1967, the diaries of MP Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon enthralled and appalled the nation in equal measure.
Malicious and delicious, the diaries skewered some of the grandest names in society and politics.
What no one realised was that the diaries had been heavily censored. Now, they are being published for the first time in their full, outrageous glory.
American-born Chips, as he was known, settled in Britain after graduating from Oxford and became a social climber on a grand scale, becoming friendly with the future Edward VIII the then Prince of Wales in 1920.
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Across an abyss of time that turns out to be less than four years ago, Theresa May stood up in the House of Commons as prime minister to lecture
MPs on a point borrowed from the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Language is not passive: it can shape the events it is used to describe. “I prefer not to use the term of divorce from the European Union,” she said, “because very often when people get divorced they don’t have a very good relationship afterwards.”
Those guys took her tip. Jacob Rees-Mogg started talking about surrender, slave states and King John’s agreement to recognise French suzerainty over the continental lands of the Angevin Empire. David Davis referred to appeasement before the second world war. Boris Johnson, much of whose career has involved riding a metaphor towards an oncoming deadline, didn’t need to be told. He was already urging the