#390 | Edward VIII | The King Who Said No
English Learning for Curious Minds
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The Life and Times of Wallace Simpson
With her dark hair and bright red lipstick, Edward was immediately smitten. She got married young to a military pilot, but it was an unhappy marriage to an alcoholic and distant husband who was constantly abroad with the Air Force. It was during this marriage that she found love, but not with her husband. While living in China, where her husband was posted, she had an affair with a man who would become Mussolini's son-in-law. During this affair, she reportedly fell pregnant and had an abortion in an operation that sadly left her in fertile, unable to have children.
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