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| Portrait of Wallis Simpson, 1936 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Who could
possibly be more qualified to kick off our profiles of SRBs, who we heart,
heart, heart, than the woman who said, “You can never be too rich, or too
thin?” We are talking about none
other than Wallis Simpson, a poor girl from Pennsylvania – savvy enough to
ditch her given name Bessie at some point in her youth – who would rise through
the social ranks and, as if to back up her point, get a king to abdicate his
throne for her, to become the Duchess of Windsor.
Why we love
her?
For
starters, there’s the royal thing.
How cool is that? Not fake,
self-anointed, but genuine British royalty. So her new rellies snubbed her. So what? That’s
we’re talking about. Her attitude,
bitches… and take-no-prisoners ambition.
Even if she
wasn’t a queen, she lived like a queen and was most definitely festooned with
bling fit for a queen. After her
death, her collection of jewelry sold for a nifty $12.5 million. Not bad for a few Cartier baubles.
With her
unswervingly simple and immaculate take on fashion, she became a style icon who
was constantly re-inventing her image.
Could Wallis be where Madge got her inspiration, since Her Madgeness was
inspired enough to make a movie about the couple’s love affair. Titled W.E. –
after Wallis and Edward, duh – the film won some awards, for Best
Costumes. We would hope so!
The Duchess
was heard to have said, “I would rather shop than eat.”
In her
earlier years in China, married to her first, minor-diplomat husband (Eddie was
husband number three’s a charm), she was renowned for brilliant conversation and
smart enough to learn the one singularly most important phrase in Mandarin,
“Boy, pass me the champagne.” Cheers!
Tomes have
been written about her and to this day, she’s still an enigma.
But the kicker? After meeting her, Hitler said, “She
would have made a great queen.”
Kudos indeed from one of the very baddest boys ever to go down in
history.
We salute
you Wallis Simpson. You’ll always
be a queen in our eyes.
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