This week, we progress in our journey to the last lover of the Prince of Wales, before Wallis, that is. Thelma Furness enters the picture. Thelma comes with her own legend, being one of the Magical Morgan Twins, along with her sister Gloria. Thelma thinks she can trust her good friend Wallis to keep an eye on “her little man” when she is needed to support her sister, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, back in the United States, who is stuck right in the middle of the “trial of the century,” concerning the custody status of little Gloria Vanderbilt.
How history does turn on such things…it does not work out great for Thelma, at least when it comes to David.
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Sources
Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson by Paul French (Amazon)
The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson by Anna Pasternak (Amazon)
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba (Amazon)
Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor by Andrew Lownie (Amazon)
The Duchess of Windsor by Greg King (Amazon)
The Windsor Story by J. Bryan III and Charles J.V. Murphy (Amazon)
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy by Andrew Morton (Amazon)
King Edward VIII: A Biography by Philip Ziegler (Amazon)
Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII by Jane Marguerite Tippett (Amazon)
The Heart Has Its Reasons by Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (Amazon)
The Duchess of Windsor: Memoirs of a Friend by Diana Mosley (Amazon)
Dancing with the Devil: The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue by Christopher Wilson (Amazon)
The Prince, The Princess and the Perfect Murder by Andrew Rose (Amazon)
Before Wallis: Edward VIII’s Other Women by Rachel Trethewey (Amazon)
