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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Why Magazine passion not so grand after All by Edith  associated press t he i. Ove letters of the Duke a Duchess of Windsor Lake a lot of the magic out of oni of the great romances of the 20thcentury British psychologists and Media commentators say the sex King comes across As an immature weakling one the american Divorcee he gave up the British throne for As a Strong willed social climber who was As much a Mother As a wife. The Duchess who died at her Paris Home april 24 at the age of 89. Wanted their love tellers published to Appeal whal she saw As the unfair verdict of history that she seduced a King into abandoning his july and giving up his throne. The looters show that King Edward Voltl was obsessed by Wallis War lied Simpson i hot he ignored her pleas to end their relationship pushed her into a divorce and refused a final plea not to abdicate. London s daily mail newspaper which paid h reported $750,000 Lor the serialization rights to the letters is polling its readers on whether they believe she was an adventuress or a  others have already reached a verdict. To a Dally Mirror said the one thing the world was t prepared Lor in the letters was the embarrassing ordinariness of this historic  the Duke shows himself to be a helpless wearing with a Mother fixation. And Walls emerges As a rather empty mixed up social climber " the tabloid said. No longer can their affair be seen As the grand passion that nearly brought Down the monarchy. In future they Wilt be viewed As two spoiled kids who could t Bear to have their sweets taken away the paper said. She was 41 and he was 13 when they married on junes 1937 six months alter his abdication. But in their tellers they refer to each other As the girl and the  at on Point tie describes missing his sweetheart and feeling alone and scared in a spooky room. She refers to his Boyish passion and accuses him in one Leyte of nol growing  five psychologists interviewed in the London press generally Echo the daily Mirror assessment. The letters reveal Wallis Simpson As an adventuress and social climber wrote or. Peler Hildebrand. Chief psychologist at the Tailstock clinic in London in the his tellers give the impression they be been written by an infatuated Schoolboy. He obviously place her in the role of an adored parental Ligure or Tony will head consultant psychologist at Bevendean Hospital in Brighton said he was sure particularly sexually and she says so in Al Duke Anil do Chest of Windsor after their 1937 wadding in France six Maltbt after he a ditled Leas one of her tellers. This immaturity certainly gives the appearance of latent homosexuality.,she was domineering and sell shy ambitious always dictating and expecting everyone else to conform to whal she wanted both were sell entered concerned Only Ullh themselves. People around them were playthings. In the end she lost control because she was trapped either marry and stay or vanish into obscurity and relative poverty. He too lost the game. He had to abdicate and accept All that  Whitehead wrote in the Dally express. For several comme Talon Edward s abdication was a Blessing. Under the headline Edward the Unready the economist Magazine said his abdication was the Best thing that could have happened Lor his country. But anybody who had said this Ihen would have seemed  commentator John amass writing in the daily express said we might easily have ended up with a dynasty founded by a lounge Lizard and an  nonetheless there was sympathy for the Duke and Duchess because of the Way they were treated by Britain s Royal lamely which ostracized them and left them in virtual exile a sore Point discussed Al length in the letters. God. How 1 hate and despise the Tot. I Hope one Day to end i mean to get Back Al those Swine and at least make them realize How disgustingly and unsporting by they have  the sex King wrote in March 1937. The Duchess was burled at Windsor Castle beside her husband who died in 1972. But Queen Elizabelh ii refused 10 Grant the Duke s last wish and give her the title her Royal highness which she wrote would be the Only thing to bring me Back in the eyes of the  the Queen and members of the Royal family attended the funeral. But there was no Eulogy. The economist said Britain s Royal lamely owed her some apologies Lor  the letters Are being published in Book form in Britain by Welde Leld and Nicolson with the title Wallis and Edward. Letters 1931-37, edited by Michael Bloch the author of two previous books on the Duke of Windsor. Friday May 16, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 13  
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