The morning after her wedding to the man who had proven his devotion to her by giving up the throne, the Duchess of Windsor woke up to find her husband 'standing beside the bed with this innocent smile, saying, 'And now what do we do?'As she later told the American writer Gore Vidal: 'My heart sank. Here was someone whose every day had been arranged for him all his life and now I was the one who was going to take the place of the entire , trying to think up things for him to do.'The day before, at the Duke and Duchess's wedding in in 1937, friends had noticed how cold her behaviour was towards him. So it is perhaps not surprising that she soon began her first post-marital affair.
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