247. Duchess Fever | The Jewelry Auction of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this very last Wallis episode, we bring our man Dominick Dunne, who attended and breathlessly reported on the 1987 auction of her jewelry at Sotheby’s in Geneva. This story is packed with so many spiderwebs – all kinds of folks attended this event, and the layers of spiderwebs included are incredible. You know our man Nick was going to report on this auction to end all auctions, and not a detail is missed.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things, Dominic Dunn. |
| 0:07.9 | Thank you for joining me today as we take a trip with Dominic Dunn to April, 1987, to close out our summer series. |
| 0:18.5 | It is our very final Wallace, Duchess of Windsor episode. Where was our man, Nick, |
| 0:24.2 | in April of 1987? Why Geneva, Switzerland for the jewelry auction to end all jewelry auctions. On offer, |
| 0:35.4 | the jewelry pieces of Wallace, Duchess of Windsor. |
| 0:40.1 | The Duke of Windsor showered his love on Wallace with all kinds of jewelry through their time together. |
| 0:48.0 | What happens to those pieces after her death? |
| 0:51.8 | Our man Nick is going to report in for us in only the way he can. |
| 0:58.6 | This event really was the sale of the century. Before we begin our story today, I do have so many |
| 1:05.9 | fine folks to thank, sending all the huge gratitude, love, thanks, and praise to our most recent supporters on Patreon. |
| 1:13.9 | Dana W., Catherine, Jane M., Marcella J., Lou Annie, Melissa S., just Sam, Shawna W., Bev Y, and Shannon T. |
| 1:26.4 | Thank you, thank you. Y'all are amazing. Huge love to our new patrons, |
| 1:31.6 | and as always, huge love to our sustaining patrons as well. Early and ad-free episodes are only |
| 1:38.3 | one of the perks coming your way at patreon.com slash done and done. I am bringing not done yet bonuses pretty much weekly to you |
| 1:47.5 | and we have officially begun our Dominic Dunn covers the OJ Simpson trial and Hollywood third act world |
| 1:57.7 | episodes. I'm taking all of his reporting from 1995 for his return to Hollywood |
| 2:04.5 | for this apex of Dominic Dunn's third act. It is quite a ride 1995. Today, though, we are all |
| 2:14.9 | taken a ride to Geneva, going back in time to the jewelry auction to end all jewelry auctions. |
| 2:22.6 | Let's investigate. I am a sucker for shiny things, and it was early April, 1987 at Sotheby's in Geneva, a grand day in shiny things history. |
| 2:53.2 | David, the Duke of Windsor, did like to gift bobbles to Wallace, from the beginning of their |
| 2:59.5 | romance and all the way through their marriage. A gal can collect quite a lot of shiny things |
| 3:06.1 | in that amount of time. |
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