#wallis simpson

"The duke believed this to be timely and deserved, and again attacked his brother’s actions as an ‘unwarranted step... taken... when any action calculated to build up the King’s position was considered justifi able, even to the extent of hitting at me where I was most vulnerable, which was to insult the lady who had consented to become my wife’".

Even though I don't like Larman's trilogy (he hates WE with the same strength I adore them), I think about this letter A LOT. Just imagine, you're 48 y.o. FORMER KING who abdicated the throne to marry the woman you loved and basically gave up all your previous life for this marriage. And after 5 years of marriage, in the letter to the PRIME MINISTER you don't write "duchess" or "wife" or "Wallis" or at least "the lady whom I married/who married me". No, you write "the lady who HAD CONSENTED TO BECOME MY WIFE".