Wallis's relationship with the King's eldest son took wing at a dinner at the Dorchester, when she showed sympathetic interest in his work. Soon, he was visiting her London flat.

Wallis's relationship with the King's eldest son took wing at a dinner at the Dorchester, when she showed sympathetic interest in his work. Soon, he was visiting her London flat.

For many of her final years, the Duchess of Windsor - the glamorous divorcee for whom a king abandoned his throne - lived a pathetic existence with few, if any, moments of…