Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries

Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters (2011x16)

: 24, 2011

Biographer Anne Sebba examines 15 letters by the American socialite, who was widely perceived to have lured Edward VIII away from the English throne. The documents, found among a newly discovered cache, were written around the time of the king's abdication in 1936 and indicate she was in love with another man - information that could change the historical profile of the American socialite.