On April 24, 1986, Wallis Simpson died aged 89. More than six decades earlier, on April 26, 1923, the future Queen Mother and King George VI tied the knot at Westminster Abbey.
Known for his shyness, the young Duke of York would have been forgiven had he looked elsewhere when Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon rejected his first marriage proposal. Yet he asked twice more.!
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