The Windsors In Exile

Witness History: Archive 2014 - A podcast by BBC World Service

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After World War Two, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - formerly King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson - settled in Paris. Hear archive accounts of their life in effective royal exile, after the Duke gave up his crown to marry divorcee Simpson. Plus royal historian Hugo Vickers.(Photo: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in June 1967. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)