Reduced from $8,500.00- King Edward VIII- Duke & Duchess of Windsor- RARE 1937

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Reduced from $8,500.00- King Edward VIII- Duke & Duchess of Windsor- RARE 1937:
$5500.00

I paid $15,000.00 for this letter more than 30 years ago.
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COMES WITH ORIGINAL 1936 PHOTOGRAPH OF WALLIS SIMPSON
INCREDIBLE LETTER FROM THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR WRITTEN 8 MONTHS AFTER THE 1936 ABDICATION
This incredibly RARE 78 year old hand written letter from the Duchess of Windsor is dated August 29, 1937 a mere 8 months after King Edward VIII gave up the throne to marry her. In this letter she writes,
Dear George,I appreciate you thought of me lost. He calls here even though the flowers went astray.It was a time where one hopes one\'s old friends were thinking a little bit about me. It wasall so horrible and such a strain. We had a lovely summer resting from those months andnow look forward to starting our lives afresh.Hoping we meet someday and that you are well and happyI am yours ever,Wallis
This one page, double sided letter comes with the original, hand written, postmarked envelope .
This letter is more personal than anything sold at the now famous \"Duke and Duchess of Windsor sale.
Edward nearly 42-years-old and a bachelor, made known his desire to marry an Wallis Warfield Simpson (later the Duchess of Windsor), whom he had known since 1931. He sought the approval of his family, the Church of England, and the political establishment to marry, but met with strong opposition. She had been married twice and her second divorce was still pending. This love affair and possible royal marriage resulted in sensational newspaper headlines around the world and created a storm of controversy, but did not sway Edward. On December 10, 1936, King Edward VIII submitted his abdication and it was endorsed by Parliament the next day. He thus became the only British monarch ever to resign voluntarily.
The following is printed from Yahoo Royal Watch, January 30, 2003. Reuters | Ananova | Sky News | Photos Thursday January 30, 07:17 AM
Queen Mother demanded ban on Edward\'s return. The Queen Mother was instrumental in preventing the Duke and Duchess of Windsor from returning to England in the wake of the 1936 Abdication Crisis. Previously top-secret files show she told her husband, King George VI, she had no wish to meet the Duchess, formerly Wallis Simpson.
Edward VIII gave up his throne and moved to France to be with her. In a hand-written letter, dated December 14, 1938, to the then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, George VI said: \"I think you know that neither the Queen (Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother) nor Queen Mary (George V\'s widow) have any desire to meet the Duchess of Windsor, and therefore any visit made for the purpose of introducing her to members of the Royal Family obviously becomes impossible.\" In an angry letter to Chamberlain, the Duke, who abdicated on December 11, 1936, complained he was being condemned to exile. Writing from Cannes in the south of France on December 22, 1937, the Duke said: \"When I decided to give up the Throne last December, I realized that the only dignified and sensible course for me to follow was to leave the country for a period, the length of which was naturally to be determined by a number of considerations. \"But I never intended, nor would I ever have agreed, to renounce my native land or my right to return to it for all time.\" \"It is hardly necessary for me to repeat to you my loyalty to my brother as King; nor as a patriotic Englishman could I countenance any disruptive action in others. \"But I cannot refrain from saying, with the frankness you would expect of me, that the treatment which has been meted out to my wife and myself since last December, both by the Royal Family and by the Government, has caused us acute pain.\"
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