On a special episode of Palace Confidential, host Luke Blackall sits down with esteemed royal author Hugo Vickers to discuss his 2011 book on Wallis Simpson, which has inspired a new feature film.
As author of Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor, Vickers was brought in as historical consultant on the film My Duchess, starring Dame Joan Collins, Isabella Rossellini and Charles Dance. The film has no set release date.
The movie follows the lonely final years of Wallis, still in effective exile in France, between the death of her husband, the former King Edward VIII,
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