Wallis Simpson's Death
While the world wonders where Kate Middleton went, a similar mystery surrounded the Duchess of Windsor during the last years of her life. When Wallis Simpson’s death was announced on April 28, 1986, she hadn’t been seen in public for over a decade and most people thought she was already dead. She was alive but not well and she hadn’t been for some time. She was bedridden in her house in France, unable to speak, her life ruled by her iron fisted lawyer Suzanne Blum, who I briefly mention in my upcoming novel The Windsor Conspiracy.
Mary Raffray, Wallis’ childhood friend who she stabbed in the back, and who married Ernest Simpson after Wallis divorced him, somewhat predicted Wallis’s sad ending. She wrote in her diary before her death in 1941 “If I believed in that sort of thing, I might say that my getting cancer again was a judgement on me because I once wished that when Wallis came to die she’d be fully conscious and know it because she is the most arrant coward I ever knew and terrified of dying. I had hoped she knows it is to pay her back for all the wicked things she’s done in her life…”