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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about their life was a fairytale other than the fact that they were very rich and lived in a fancy house? Seems kind of sad and devoid of intimacy (no close family, no children) to me.[/quote]

I wondered this, too.  He abdicated for her, which people thought was very romantic.  And then they ended up living in exile, alienated from family, dependent on an allowance, without children, and were Nazi sympathizers who got shunted off to the Bahamas (which they hated) during WWII because people didn't trust them.

The house itself isn't at all to my taste -- too cold, too fussy, too many portraits of her -- but I loved the note that you can get pug pillows like hers from Etsy!  Truly, elegance personified.  [/quote]

She cheated on him non-stop and didn't want to marry him.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-30-fg-simpson30-story.html
https://nypost.com/2018/02/10/wallis-simpsons-marriage-to-edward-viii-was-shockingly-miserable/[/quote]

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