Welcome to a whole spider of a series – Wallis, Duchess of Windsor!
We know her story, or we think we do. In this first episode, we meet Bessie Wallis Warfield, just a tiny girl making her way in the world surrounded by a whole lot of family drama, on both sides. Between her mother Alice and her uncle Sol, it is no wonder Wallis wants to break free to see a different world than the one she knows.
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Sources
Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson by Paul French (Amazon)
The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson by Anna Pasternak (Amazon)
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba (Amazon)
Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor by Andrew Lownie (Amazon)
The Duchess of Windsor by Greg King (Amazon)
The Windsor Story by J. Bryan III and Charles J.V. Murphy (Amazon)
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy by Andrew Morton (Amazon)
King Edward VIII: A Biography by Philip Ziegler (Amazon)
Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII by Jane Marguerite Tippett (Amazon)
The Heart Has Its Reasons by Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (Amazon)
The Duchess of Windsor: Memoirs of a Friend by Diana Mosley (Amazon)
Dancing with the Devil: The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue by Christopher Wilson (Amazon)
The Prince, The Princess and the Perfect Murder by Andrew Rose (Amazon)
Before Wallis: Edward VIII’s Other Women by Rachel Trethewey (Amazon)