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03/04/2014 GMT

The Windsors In Exile

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Windsors In Exile

Life in Paris for Duke and Duchess of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

After WW2, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - formerly King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson - settled in Paris.

After World War Two, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - formerly King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson - settled in Paris. Hear archive accounts of their life in effective royal exile, after the Duke gave up his crown to marry divorcee Simpson. Plus royal historian Hugo Vickers.

(Photo: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in June 1967. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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