Had the Duke of Windsor wished to portray himself as a king-in-exile, he could not have done so more ostentatiously than at La Croe, the chateau in the south of which he and his wife had moved to following his abdication.With a staff of 28 and guests of the calibre of Noel Coward and Winston Churchill, they indulged in self-aggrandising theatricality, as if in compensation for all that he who ruled so briefly as King Edward VIII had given up to marry , the American divorcee who was now the Duchess.'A tiny little white table for us four was set on the huge lawn,' recalled one visitor. 'There were rows of footmen… the night was furiously hot but the Duke was in full Scottish regalia. I thought he was staging a production of some sort.'
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