Dancg wh the Devil , by Christopher Wilson. St. Mart's Prs, 288 pag, $;s have a ank exchange about the DeandDuchsofWdsorand his/her/their gay lover, Jimmy Donahue.
Contents:
- THE NIGHT THAT EDWARD NONTED WALLIS OVER HER GAY LOVER: AFTER 60 YEARS, SECRET NOT REVEAL TTH ABOUT PLAYBOY PAL
- THE EXILED PRCE, HIS 'SECRET CHILDREN' AND MOURS OF GAY LOVERS
- EDWARD VIII LOVE WALLIS SIMPSON AFFAIR GAY LNAIRE JIMMY DONAHUE PRIVATE LIV OF MONARCHS
- HIS CROWNG HUIATN: HOW EDWARD ENDURED A LIFE OF TORMENT AT WALLIS'S HANDS AND WAS EVEN SUBJECTED TO A JOKE RONATN BY HER GAY IEND A NEW YORK NIGHTCLUB
THE NIGHT THAT EDWARD NONTED WALLIS OVER HER GAY LOVER: AFTER 60 YEARS, SECRET NOT REVEAL TTH ABOUT PLAYBOY PAL
In a scene that unrm the myth that the marriage was ‘the greatt love affair the world’, the former Edward VIII tearfully told Wallis Simpson, the divorcee for whom he gave up the throne 1936, to break off her relatnship wh a wealthy private notebooks of Anne Seagrim, which she kept secretly durg her service wh the royal uple, offer further evince that after 13 years of marriage, the Duchs had beme bored wh her hband, leadg to an affair wh a young Amerin 19 years her junr, Jimmy Donahue, who until then had been a promiscuo homosexual. Although mours often swirled about the Duchs’s relatnship wh Donahue, his prevly homosexual love-life led observers to believe that there was no sexual attractn between them. "Many of the Wdsors' iends were gay.
However, of the De is said never to have appeared particularly fortable when the pany of gay once told the Amerin novelist and screenwrer Tman Capote, who was openly gay: "The De, however well he pretends not to hate me, he do, though. " Trendg In a 2004 edn of his bgraphy of Wallis, thor Charl Higham revealed that the De's former equerry Sir Dudley Forwood had told him that Edward "Fy" Metlfe, an Indian army officer and close iend of Edward, "was an active homosexual and that he had a physil affair wh the Prce of Wal".
"The De was also the honorary print of the Atrian Sports and Shootg Club, which German police fil suggt was a ver for homosexual activi, " not of the De's lovers was supposedly Walter Chrysler Jr, son of the founr of the Chrysler Corporatn. He was 19 years younger than Wallis and till he met her, he had only had homosexual relatnships.
THE EXILED PRCE, HIS 'SECRET CHILDREN' AND MOURS OF GAY LOVERS
Until he met Wallis, Jimmy’s romantic pursus were exclively homosexual. He was a gay man livg at a time when homosexual activy was still illegal, so, as arranged by prs agents, he was often seen wh female claimed he had a four-year affair wh Wallis, an assertn that was verified by Lady Pamela Hicks, the dghter of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a of the De of Wdsor. It was a relatnship that baffled and mystified their iends, and entertaed their enemi, not least bee the object of her affectn was gay.
Gay at a time when the homosexual act was still illegal, Jimmy was notor wh Ameri’s upper strata, and loved to shock. Though prs agents arranged for him to be seen wh female rts, his pursus, until he met the Duchs of Wdsor, were exclively homosexual. He has intified at least two illegimate children probably fathered by the de when he was Prce of Wal, and fds that the de was bisexual, takg part gay i Hollywood.
For her part, the duchs had a long affair wh a homosexual man and may have had another wh Hler’s Foreign Mister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, when he was ambassador to Bra.
EDWARD VIII LOVE WALLIS SIMPSON AFFAIR GAY LNAIRE JIMMY DONAHUE PRIVATE LIV OF MONARCHS
She wanted to be portrayed as “eternally youthful––eternally gay…” Wallis, Duchs of Wdsor (1896-1986) and the De of Wdsor (1894-1972) outsi Goverment Hoe Nass, the Bahamas, cir 1942. Crics noticed the duchs’s light touch, though they seem to have missed the unrcurrent of pathos unrneath her gay words.
Herman alone, who was aware of Jimmy’s reputatn as an outrageo homosexual, cled to acpany the next four years, she went overboard for the much younger Jimmy Donahue, spendg all her time wh his part, he showered Wallis wh jewels —cludg a magnificent sapphire rg — furs, flowers, chartered yachts, billets-doux and, above all else, unplited was a very public relatnship that shocked and surprised even the most sophistited. Much to the light of the De, who had a thick streak of parsimony, his wife’s admirer always picked up the cln of a gay man their ner circle was nothg unual, though the De had a well-known disda for homosexualy. On one ocsn, when they were havg an argument about their gay iends, Wallis spat: ‘You should listen to them — they are much brighter than you.
HIS CROWNG HUIATN: HOW EDWARD ENDURED A LIFE OF TORMENT AT WALLIS'S HANDS AND WAS EVEN SUBJECTED TO A JOKE RONATN BY HER GAY IEND A NEW YORK NIGHTCLUB
’Unlike other gay men the Wdsor circle, however, Donahue loved to shock.
He was gay, all sens of the word: a fizzy antidote to her suffotg hband and a jolly pann to help share the onero burn of perpetually entertag the De. Let’s have a ank exchange about the DeandDuchsofWdsorand his/her/their gay lover, Jimmy Donahue. Qutn: Was the Prce of Wal/Kg Edward VIII/De of Wdsor hetero-, homo- or bisexual?