The upcoming marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton is rekindling interest in another nontitled outsider who married British royalty.
Twenty-five years after her death, there are two new biographies of Wallis Simpson. Madonna is making a movie about her. And historians are taking a second look at the woman who cost a king his throne.
In the words of one writer, the notorious Simpson was "too ambitious, too sexual, too divorced, too pro-German and too American."
Yet, faced with the choice of marrying his twice-divorced mistress or keeping his throne, King Edward VIII famously chose Simpson.
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