Inside Villa Windsor: Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII's Glamorous Palace in Exile

Описание: Inside Villa Windsor: The Scandalous Parisian Refuge of Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor

Hidden behind wrought-iron gates and tall stone walls at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne lies a house steeped in scandal, exile, and faded royal grandeur. Welcome to Villa Windsor — the Parisian sanctuary where the former King Edward VIII and the twice-divorced American woman for whom he gave up a throne, Wallis Simpson, lived out their controversial exile.

In today’s episode of Regal Chronicles, we step inside this storied villa at 4 Route du Champ-d’Entraînement and unravel its opulent, secretive history. From its 1929 origins as Château Le Bois for French politician Henri Lillaz, to its somber occupation by Nazi commander Hermann Göring, and then to the post-war residence of Charles de Gaulle, Villa Windsor has witnessed the darkest and most dazzling chapters of 20th-century European history.

But it was in 1953 that the villa found its most famous — and infamous — residents. When the City of Paris offered the long-abandoned property to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at a nominal rent, it became the couple’s luxurious prison of choice. Within those gilded rooms, Wallis Simpson created a home fit for a queen she would never be, filled with antique French furnishings, gleaming crystal, and her signature “Wallis blue” interiors — all orchestrated by the celebrated decorator Stéphane Boudin of Maison Jansen.

Behind closed doors, Wallis presided over a strict household, immaculate in every detail. The villa was a place of glittering dinner parties for select guests, yet also of loneliness and regret, as the Windsors remained shunned by the British royal family. Here, Edward and Wallis lived out their days surrounded by personal relics of a past the world had tried to forget — including the very desk where Edward signed his abdication.

This video delves deep into the villa’s scandalous history, from its Nazi past to its years as a royal exile’s retreat. We’ll explore the lavish interiors, the daily rituals of the Duchess of Windsor, and the intimate details of the couple’s life in Parisian exile. It’s a story of faded crowns, defiant love, and the high price of a kingdom forsaken.

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