![]() ![]() But, believing that Wallis has deliberately chosen to forget her "role in history", Blum is determined to force her to remember this vital bit of the past, before she dies. ![]() ![]() A lawyer friend, Maitre Suzanne Blum has taken charge of her care. She lies bedridden in her house in Paris. Other moments in her life she can vividly recall, but the world-shaking events at the heart of it are lost to her - apparently forever. Her entire part in what an American journalist once called "the greatest story since the Resurrection" has completely gone from her mind. The play pivots upon a single dramatic conceit: that Wallis, now entering the darkness of approaching death, has forgotten every single thing about Edward. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, has forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her.īBC's description: A play imagining the last days of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, the woman for whom King Edward VIII gave up the throne of England in 1936. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Description: Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward Vlll abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat. ![]()
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