As the Abdication crisis reached boiling-point in the dying days of 1936, was Wallis Simpson ready and willing to be bought out of her forthcoming marriage to King Edward VIII?
He was as bitter as she was sweet. But nobody ever said a word against the Queen Mother s kid brother, David Bowes-Lyon, because she adored him so. Yet he was an unattractive figure.
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At first glance this silver trophy cup was just another commemoration for something that was deeply significant to someone once, and yet had become forgotten.