She was so ill in her final years that her death was seen as a blessing. Wallis Simpson became the Duchess of Windsor, after marrying the man who chose love over duty.
It sounds immediately like the stuff of intrigue. This month, a report stating that the National Archives had sealed up some royal household correspondence over the will of Elizabeth II’s aunt, Princess Mary (who died in 1965), turned the spotlight on the subject of royal wills. Was there something mysterious going on with our late Queen’s finances?
The belatedly published book on which it’s based was written (in 1980) by Lady Caroline Blackwood, a wealthy alcoholic aristocrat who was married first