THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR; WALLIS SIMPSON ON ROMANCE, CLOTHES AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.(Interview)

WWD | September 13, 1999| | Copyright

Today, at the venerable age of anywhere from 78 to 82 (depending on which report you believe) and having generated enough excitement in her life to keep her name in print for 50 years, Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, is not a woman to be critically reviewed. Simply to announce her is sufficient.

Interviewing a legend is a risky, disconcerting business. It's much easier, and more comfortable, to rely on the stories and the research and the pretty pictures of the past than to cope with the genuine article -- age, good temper or bad, warts and ...

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