Wallis Simpson's Marriage Was NEVER What We Thought

The love story of the century opened with a legal snub and an empty church. That contradiction runs beneath everything that comes next. The woman marrying into the world's most famous romance did not, by the weight of the surviving evidence, want the throne, want the abdication, or even want this wedding. She aimed at something smaller and safer, and she pursued it with such skill that it swallowed her whole. What Wallis Simpson constructed over twenty years of careful social climbing never resembled a fairy tale. She built a cell, and filed down the key herself.