Tag Archives: Wallis Simpson

By Ephraim Hardcastle for the Daily Mail Published: 18:49 EDT, 25 April 2024 | Updated: 19:16 EDT, 25 April 2024 Harry insists that the US is now his residence but specialist expatriate law firm Blevins Franks warns of the pitfalls: ‘HMRC will look for any indication that you see Britain …

The Royal Family is no stranger to a crisis. It has been been rocked by scandals, extra-marital affairs and what felt in the mid-1990s like a never-ending stream of divorces that all but shattered the fairy-tale ideal of the modern royal marriage.  Despite these upheavals, however, royal life, as a …

When finally he’s crowned King William V, most people assume, the current Prince of Wales will be titled after the four British kings previously bearing that name.  Not so – his choice of name comes from a little-known British prince who died in a plane crash 51 years ago. Prince …

Meghan isn’t really in my consciousness says Dame Joan Collins but Kate ‘never puts a foot wrong: Dame reveals what she really thinks of the royals as she prepares to play Wallis Simpson in biopic By Jo Macfarlane Published: 11:19 EDT, 16 September 2023 | Updated: 11:26 EDT, 16 September …

A few weeks ago, I wrote in The Mail’s new Royal’s section about the problems I’ve had as a historian and biographer in trying to access historical royal records. Time after time, I have found myself banned from looking into even the most mundane files, including records which have been …

A new reign is a chance to assess the past and see how things might be done differently. Will King Charles seize the moment? I am not convinced. It is true that Charles has agreed for royal links to slavery to be probed, which might seem brave of him. This, …

This week in royal history was an eventful one, kicking off with the death of Wallis Simpson, on April 24, 1986.  By then, at the age of 89, the widow of the former King Edward VIII had been bedbound for the best part of a decade.  And yesterday marked not …