SYND 10-4-74 DUCHESS OF WINDSOR INTERVIEW IN NEW YORK
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- (9 Apr 1974) The Duchess Of Windsor, the former Wallis Simpson visits New York For the first time in three years and gives an interview.
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I loved the "My what??" She totally caught the reporter off guard and made him stumble. Love her quick wit.
The way they spoke in those days. Love it
Same! Transatlantic
I cannot dislike this woman. She was very interesting.
The one thing that many people don't know is that in the 1960's the duke and Duchess had a lot of contact with the younger members of the royal family who visited them regularly in Paris. All of them called the Duchess Aunt Wallis and she was very fond of her nephews and nieces. They also kept in touch with her after the Duke's death.
Not for too long I don't think. The lawyer Suzanne Blum obtained power of attorney over Wallis in 1973 and gradually took over her life, even stopping friends from visiting, upkeep to the home etc. The woman was pure evil. Wallis had a terrible and isolated time in the last few years of her life.
What a load of bullshit you have written here. Stop dreaming up pure rubbish.
If only that were true. After the Duke's death, Wallis' own health began to fail and she was ripe for exploitation by French lawyer Suzanne Blum (Huge Vickers wrote a book about this - the increasingly frail and confused Wallis was kept sedated and housebound, while Blum robbed her blind).
Without family of her own, and having cultivated no real friends, Wallis was very vulnerable without the Duke's protection. Her husband really should have foreseen this and made plans with her for a new life, once she was widowed.
Lord Louis Mountbatten tried to help Wallis, writing to her and visiting before and after the Duke's death. He had looked at her finances, and worked out if she gave up the rented villa, she could enjoy a lavish lifestyle as a permanent resident of a suite at a top New York hotel.
Wallis could have had a comfortable widowhood as the toast of the Big Apple, where her fame and royal status would have been lapped up by the New York establishment. I can just see her as a regular at Studio 54 in the 'seventies, arriving on the arm of Andy Warhol or David Bowie! And the hotel lifestyle would surely have suited her, with her every need catered to with just a phone call.
But it was not to be. Once dementia - and crucially, Blum - got a grip, letters and callers were intercepted and stopped. Mountbatten was soon frozen out, told, like everyone else who tried to contact Wallis, she was too ill to see him.
Her last years as an emaciated and bed-bound prisoner in the increasingly shabby and neglected French villa, tended to by paid nurses who cared nothing for her, were bleak. The once powerful, rich and feted Duchess became a tiny, powerless, pitiful shadow of her former self. In the final analysis, her King let her down terribly.
I’ve tried so hard to dislike this lady, but each time I see her in interview, I can’t help but absolutely adore her. She is endlessly charming...Not at all boring, stuffy, or unapproachable as one might expect. I, unlike most, do indeed see what Edward VIII loved so much about her. Rest In Peace, lovely Wallis...You’ll always be HRH to me!
Why have you tried hard to dislike this lady? That seems a rather strange thing to attempt to do.
I've actually always find her a far more likeable person than HIM...at interview anyway.
Rhys Hoffman ...Well perhaps I’m rather strange...lol...but then again, strange isn’t necessarily a word for wrong, now is it?
She deserved a prince only I feel
She was quite fond of nazis so try again to like her
She was treated very cruelly when it was actually the Duke of Windsor who made the bad decisions.
she must have had nerves of steel
Both Wallis and the new Queen consort had a lot in common. Both were so hated yet they overcame it and went beyond it
I love that woman. She was warm-hearted and charming. That is the way to go through life (in any class). If your are warm-hearted and love people, you are a rich person.
If you read more about her you'll realize how awful she was with Edward and how she treated him and humilate him infront of people also when he was sick she didn't even check on him and he died while the nurse embraced him
@@dhaliazaid4479 I understand you were witnessing the scene live at the time. Interesting anecdote
@@compro8111 no there's books and articles I would never accuse someone of anything just because but if you want you can read her letters to her second husband and how much she didn't like marrying Edward
I will. The woman is most interesting but Edward is the most intriguing
@@compro8111 indeed he's you can find a lot on UA-cam I hope you enjoy watching
What a nice interview!
Her jewels are magnificent!
U can tell why Edward fell in love with her. She's quick intelligent and witty w/ great since of humor
She is humorous and wittiful~! Smart charming woman
wittiful??! No such word - it's 'witty'.
She was very quick witted ☺️
She personified elegance and style and set a high bar for future couture and aristocrats.
Tilly Divine OMG, you KNEW her???!
Its very unfair the Duchess was treated badly by the Royal family and the public, while it was Edward who made the decision to abdicate. Such a shame that she lived her whole with him in such a sad manner..both of them did.
But she was a cheater. She continued to write to her ex after getting married to Edward. She didn't spend time with Edward when he was dying.
Also, a n*zi sympathizer
I totally agree with you!👍
The British RF are a cold-hearted institution. Diana and Fergie found that the hard way. Now Meghan did as well.
@@jcruby2328 Don’t compare the Duchess of Windsor and Meghan , the Duchess of Windsor had dignity and class, she could have said so much, but didn’t, in many ways she is to be admired.
@@jenylogan1 a woman like Wallis with her adulterous behavior had more dignity, much less class? Your standards are the lowest.
The Duke of Windsor would be so proud to read these lovely comments about the Duchess
You would have to be very old, to know what she was really like. Don't believe what the media says. They need to sell papers!!
This is exactly what I was thinking about just yesterday!🤗
There was something in her that’s fascinating to her ex Men... I still remember my History teacher in High school in 1969 when she told us about a King who gave up his thrown for Love!!! I was already overwhelmed by that account!!!❤️👑👍
It’s not true. He didn’t give up the throne for love. He was forced to give it up because if the public ever found out about his allegiances to Hitler there would have been social outcry and the royals would have been thrown out. They quickly got him out before anyone could find out.
thrown???!
@@glamdolly30 A throne thrown away from love must then become "a thrown." 🤷🏾♀
She aged so beautifully. Some women are prettier when they're older. Lots of diet and exercise I guess!
The only king strong enough to reject the ballast of tradition in favour of the woman he loved. Great!
he knew he was too weak to be King and used that woman as an excuse to indulge in his childishness, Wallis actually referred to him as Peter Pan
You can hate her but what she accomplished on just her skills as a “social climber” alone are incredible looking at where she came to get there; all the way up to ending up married to a former king. It’s insane.
Just to say, she didn't have to climb that high as she had a good pedigree herself. I loved her...colourful, genteel, witty and chic!
You know nothing. She "came from" very prominent old Maryland/Virginia families on both sides.
She was very happily married to prosperous well-respected Anglo-American Ernest Simpson in London.
The Simpsons were in the social circle of Edward. She didnt want to marry Edward, but he was besotted.
@@TedATL1 'She didn't want to marry Edward'. What rot you talk!
That myth sold a few books, but it's plainly sentimental garbage. Wallis couldn't wait to marry Edward, for all the glittering prizes he threw at her feet. The kind, though unexciting Ernest Simpson, couldn't possibly compete with the former King's riches and royal status!
She believed the Duke's promise to make her his Queen - and when that didn't materialise, to at least share equal status with her as HRH. When that honour was withheld from her on their wedding day, meaning in protocol terms she was actually supposed to curtsy to her husband, she was incandescent with rage - and she never forgave him or the royal family.
However her anger over the HRH slur gave her a useful stick to beat her spineless husband with to the end of his days. Wallis never loved the Duke - she wouldn't even visit him on his death bed, where nurses frequently saw him crying out for her in vain, like a lost lamb seeking its mother.
It was a very cynical and toxic marriage of two shallow hedonists. In the final analysis, David and Wallis deserved each other!
charming.. There is a film made about her called W.E its pretty good.
The brilliant duchess best babysitter ever
Lol she did babysit the duke
Brilliant answer to a very intrusive question....
I'm not a fan of this woman, but I must say she handled those questions with great aplomb and good humour!
Good answer good for Wallis Simpson,
What a woman. She tried to get out of the impending marriage with King Edwards VIII. Too late. He gave up,the throne because of LOVE. They were together 36. Years of marriage with the king who abdicated. . She died at the age of 89. MAdonna priced a movie about her. Yes, a divorcee American who got a King to give up all of the power, all, for LOVE. Isn't that we are all striving for?
She and Edward VIII had no children, she didn't have children from her previous marriages either.
Love?..there was no love....hunger for royalty..
Sanius Lucius Your response is so boring and typical. Very common.
Max Wilson Are you following me on UA-cam?..give me a break!...
A truly great woman treated along with her husband so badly.
Treated badly. They lived a lavished life.
Good answer at the end good for her!!
I think if it is today's world. Wallis will definitely be allowed to get married to him. She is well-educated, poised and intelligent lady.
“I have no plans for writing it’s the most dreadful thing to do.” Prince Harry sweetie, you should have listened to your great-great aunt.
Look at the delicious collar on that outfit, proper haute couture
Why are they asking her these types of questions anyway?
Atta girl!
She was no fool.
Her voice is much of that of The Women Of the House of Windsor!
Love this channel. 🤍💙❤️💚💜
Puts Mehgan to shame ( not a fan either) but she is very sophisticated and witty.
Hay que reconocer que éstas fueron las primeras personas en la historia de la humanidad, en enfrentarse a medios de comunicación de la nueva era de la tecnología, televisión, radio, camaras. Y lo hicieron en muchos casos, bastante bien. Con mucha destreza a pesar de ser algo novedoso.
It was good to be the Duchess.
Really ? Why ? Married a man she never really loved no family of her own, ostracized by her husband's family, an alcoholic with I'll health, imprisoned by her lawyer, bedridden for years.
She had a way with words alright!
Said she had no plans to write a book and keep love affairs secret Take note MM
Keep your love affairs secret?
Absolutely, we don't want to hear about your roast chicken and such. 🐔🍗🐝
How sad to ask her a question like that. By this point in her life she was becoming increasingly senile and became confused very easily.
the old bag had many affairs, as did her husband ... with women and men !!
Indeed, it was a slimey question to ambush her with. The guy is a creep.
This was almost before the 2nd anniversary of Edward's death, and before Wallis's dementia imprisioned her.I feel bad for both of them more so for her she didn't want to marry Edward she wanted to stay married to Ernest (her second husband). Plus her sister in law the queen mother never forgave Wallis until Edward's death how tragic.
Correction, she did want to marry Edward - but she didn’t want him to abdicate. As she wrote to one of her friend Sibyl Colefax: “After a while my name will be forgotten by the people and only two people will suffer instead of a mass of people who aren’t interested anyway in individual feelings but only the workings of a system.” (Book “Wallis & Edward Letters: 1931-37. The intimate correspondence between the Duke and Duchess of Windsor” by Michael Bloch)
I wonder if the Queen Mum was paying back for Edward spurning her long ago.
@@hninzilwin3288 huh the Queen Mother wanted Edward? 😂.
A charming mystery. A mysterious charm.
KIng Edward fall inlove with her because her personality he choose her rather to become King of England we don't know what happen before .
Very rude waving them microphones in her face ! X
She is the reason why the former King Edward viii abdicated
What a glam woman
She deserved a prince
How sad that the true story never came out until a few years ago. Edward chased her, he was obsessed with her for some reason but she wasn't with him. From newly discovered correspondence it has been revealed that she was in love with her husband mr. Simpson, not in love with the king. She didn't want to break up her marriage, she was being forced to do so. The king said he would kill himself if she left him, she begged him not to give up the crown, but he did anyway. She did her duty by making the Kings life happy by the expense of her own happiness. She devoted her life to him. She paid a very high price for her mis judgement.
This is just a new spin put on an old story to sell a book! It's sentimental nonsense to say Wallis didn't want to marry into royalty and live a life of unimaginable wealth, status and privilege. She was raised by a single mother who drummed it into her - you must marry UP for security and money. And Wallis did just that - and by marriage Number Three she had fulfilled her Mother's wildest dreams for her, as you couldn't marry any higher UP than a King!
I agree! Wallis always received the worst end when in reality the royals are always the ones to blame. Hope they all burn in hell
@@glamdolly30 truth is normally stranger than fiction. Humans always prefer untruths. 🐝
As a historian myself, it was either Edward abdicate or the government at the time threatened to resign
@@glamdolly30
You know nothing. She was happily married to a prosperous, well-respected Anglo-American Ernest Simpson, and they were both already part of Edward's social circle in London. No "climbing" necessary.
She knew she would be hated for the abdication and wanted no part of it. Edward trapped her into it.
So witty
she has no time for writing...which was true, she didn't even write her own autobiography, it was ghostwritten
+bob nob "she has no time for writing...which was true, she didn't even write her own autobiography, it was ghostwritten"
Majority of celebrity books are ghostwritten. Also, she's old here. What old person wants to sit down and do typing (probably with arthritis in both hands) if they don't have to?
Yes, but she made out adamantly that she wrote her own autobiography
@@mehdontcare100 well in that interview she said she had no time for it. So which is it did she write it or didn't she? You can't have it both ways.
@@trinettemitchell3053 maybe what she meant was just that. That she had no time for those telling all in books. 📚🐝
What a crass man to ask the Duchess at that stage of her life about love affairs...She had lost the Duke and was suffering from the onset of dementia...People can be so cruel....Let sleeping dogs lie...
Indeed. He was a complete creep.
I love the HRH Duchess of Windsor Wallis Windsor 💖
She had sad eyes .idk i liked her .
What impertinent questions.
Witty woman
Wall-E tu és era muito sapeca
And she had that voodoo poonanny!
Because she is not a Royal Blood they think she is golddigger but in heart is genuine and friendly of course she is twice divorce but look at now what happen to Prince Charles is karma to them.
Fantastic women - So Royal an modern!
Wallis Simpson had no children.
Do not make me laugh....royal?..she was acting all her life...lying herself too...
+Sanius Lucius "Do not make me laugh....royal?..she was acting all her life...lying herself too.."
You're the one who is ACTING! On here on a fake account with a fake avatar and username! Wallis used her own damn name, faced the public bravely, she didn't hide in the shadows talking with great authority about things she didn't know about, like YOU are doing here.
She was never Royal or member of the Royal family!
Bo Dahlin She caused the abdication crisis in 1937 lol.
she is so cute...
QUEL CHIC elle est superbe plus Royal que la Royautée
They should have asked her if she thought Meghan Markle was the 'new' her. :-)
SassyBratt1, if you mean by her being harassed, defamed and demeaned just as Wallis Simpson was? You might be right.
@Concerned4 USA Yeah I kind of like Wallace too..especially as she got older she looked so much better as well.
Concerned4 USA you mean "far more white". Just say it.
@@miriamhavard7621 You have a 'persecution complex" . Like Stacy Abrams who thinks she can dupe the world into believing that if she is not chosen as a vice president candidate it's because of racism. Grow up foolish one!
@@miriamhavard7621 meghan markle is unlikable, phony, insufferable, Narcissistic, immature, vulgar, of which wallis was none of these. It has nothing to with skin colour. It has everything to do with personality. She thinks she can escaoe just criticism by playing the race card. Many dont even know she has a black parent, and still even more do not care
So classy till the end...She would have made a marvelous Princess, I am disgusted that Windsor Castle waited until the death of Prince Edward, to make her enter England and placed him to rest there.... I know it was an estate funeral...how evil of the Queen Mary, even in the event of Princess Diana's death.... Horrible!
What garbled nonsense.... Queen Mary???? Queen Mary died in 1953 fyi....that's about 8 years before Diana was born. One therefore assumes you mean Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother...
+seerjc123 who cares they're all the same FYI!!!
+seerjc123 and the queen mother was a huge bitch to Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson FYI!!!!
I think she had a great sense of class too. Her crime of love and passion cannot be compared to the terrible crimes committed by previous monarchs......and they judged her? Edward's abdication demonstrated grace by stepping down from the thrown. He loved her dearly.
As same as Wallis was big bitch to other people, especially men...Classy?.... she was typical American woman...pifff...she was ambitious to enter in royal family....
Great lady!! Shame she married into such an evil, evil family. Although Eddie seemed to be a better apple out the cart.
Evil family? Wtf?!
Eddie the best apple what?? Read up him and nazism
@@rosehill9537 right? Wild. He only abdicated because he didn’t want to be king. Felt bad for her. He used her as an excuse. And he goes right on to Berlin. Like whaaaaa
@@Ashley_e 100% there is a historian who now claims the Duchess loved another that she saw as her soul mate but got caught in her own game and felt she must marry the King.
@@rosehill9537 she tried to leave and saying stop. Dont abdicate. Because the hoopla. He just didnt get it. I think that’s why Queen Mary was truly angry. He was bowing from his duty, and they knew he always was. Wouldnt shock me if he had suggested it pass to his brother before his dad died
I never did like her .
sputnic kk
Pure evil ! Nothing else and her harsh voice tops everything. 🤮
Yes, her voice is harsh, not charming & she comes actoss as cold & calculating. Poor Edward.
@@sk.n.9302 A very stylish voice, cold and harsh, hardly, she answered a crass question with style and dignity !
@@jenylogan1 I can tell from your sentence structure that you are not a native English speaker, but I'm impressed by your attempt to be fluent. Keep practicing by trolling here on UA-cam lol.
@@sk.n.9302
You know nothing. Everybody who knew her agreed she was charming, intelligent and witty. Rather more so
than any member of the Royal Family, I might say. She didnt want to marry Edward, she was already happily married to
the prosperous well-respected Ernest Simpson. She behaved impeccably for 50 years after marryinghim.