S29E5: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Edward’s Early Loves

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

Comedy, History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s exciting episode of our Wallis, Duchess of Windsor series, we change the focus to the Prince of Wales. With a complicated childhood without a whole lot of family love, you can see how it would be easy for David to be swayed by romance. He does this romance dance quite a lot – sometimes with suitable girls, sometimes not. In this episode, we will explore a few of David’s first loves, including Marion Coke, Lady Sybil Cadogan, Marguerite Alibert, and Rosemary Leveson-Gower. No gal is going to ever be good enough for David at this time, at least according to his royal family. Also, there is a little blackmail and murder thrown into the mix too. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you are as obsessed with Hollywood celebrities, awards, and gossip as we are, we'd like to recommend a podcast from Vanity Fair called Little Gold Men.
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1:09.7	Music Welcome one, welcome all to you,
1:13.2	Episode 5 of Wallace, Duchess of Windsor.
1:15.6	We're going to turn the tables a little bit this week.
1:17.5	Oh, I'm excited.
1:20.3	And not actually talk that much about Wallace Simpson, I believe.
1:22.0	Not so much, not so much.
1:23.8	We've given Wallace a pretty good setup. Her childhood, her roaring 20s, her lotus year, she's happily married. Paul
1:30.2	Hollywood has reached across the aisle. She's the star hostess in London. We're going to go back in
1:37.2	time and switch the view this week to the other side of this ultimate love equation and talk about
1:43.8	Edwards' early loves. As we know, Wallace Simpson
1:48.3	was the woman who ultimately won the heart of the supremely eligible and sought after Prince of Wales,
1:55.2	but Wallace was certainly not his first love. In fact, the prince had a few very serious relationships before her, as well as many short-lived
2:06.9	flings.
2:08.4	When it came to getting serious, though, David, the future Edward the 8th, as I mentioned
2:13.8	at the end of the last episode, definitely had a type.
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