In January 1931, Wallis Simpson, the American wife of a conventional London businessman, realized the daydream of every middle-class woman in England; in the course a weekend country house party in the English Midlands, she was introduced socially to the great idol of the day, Edward Prince of Wales.This book relates the most celebrated love story of modern times - that of Wallis Simpson (nee Warfield) of Baltimore, later the Duchess of Windsor, and Prince of Wales, Edward VIII of England to be.