Held in a French chateau that was more used to wealth than royalty, it was a low-key ceremony that was boycotted by the and all respectable priests.With eyes that were described by royal photographer Cecil Beaton as 'essentially sad', the former King Edward VIII, 42, tied the knot with , 40, on June 3, 1937.Soon afterwards, Wallis - the woman whom the Duke had given up the Crown for in December 1936 - would embark on her first post-marital affair and did not even love her husband, according to royal biographers.
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