"He's not going to introduce a wealth tax, is he?"

Invitation to the Duke and Dukes of Windsor, after prior submission of the list of questions for the interview and agreement on the fee. It is the spring of 1966, the little Renaissance chateau in the Bois de Boulogne that the city of Paris leases to them is – as historical as it is – a pastiche. It was not until around 1900 that a boastful department store king built it. This abdicated British king, Edward VIII, also comes across as a bit of a fake. How could it have been the idolized young Prince of Wales who, as heir to the throne, loved to socialize with the common people? Disappointed impression that the only original thing about this elegantly slim dandy was the checkered suit, which was far too conspicuous.

Enter the Duchess, the ambitious, twice-divorced American Mrs. Simpson. For the sake of which Prime Minister Baldwin once forced the young King Edward VIII to abdicate.

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