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Edward and Wallis were married at the Chateau de Cande on 3rd June 1937, and today the Chateau remains as a shrine to their wedding day:
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| Wedding Photograph at the Chateau. |
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| Another wedding photograph at the Chateau |
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| The original photograph - Wallis and Edward |
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| Wallis' wedding dress at the Chateau. This is, in fact, a copy - the original is in the US but undisplayable, as the specially dyed "Wallis blue" colour has faded over time to .... brown. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity. |
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| The Library of the Chateau set for the wedding guests. Through the doorway is the wedding altar. |
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| Wallis at the altar. |
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| The wedding lunch. In the centre, an outsize wedding cake with Prince of Wales' feathers. |
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| The wedding lunch in progress, "Fruity" Metcalfe right foreground. |
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| The wedding certificate on display at the Chateau. "Fruity" rather grandly signs himself simply "Metcalfe" (in rather larger writing than the happy couple, too) |
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| Signature close up. This is the first public document signed by Edward as Duke of Windsor (in the French style, too) and the first document ever signed by Walls as "Duchess of Windsor". |
(1). For those resisting the urge to visit the Chateau de Cande in the immediate future, You Tube is (as ever) your friend. A very professionally done video tour of the entirety of the Chateau is available on YouTube here
(2). Charles Bedaux, the owner of the Chateau de Cande in June 1937, died far from France and in mysterious circumstances in Dade County Prison, Miami, Florida, on 18th February 1944. His interesting Wiki Bio is HERE.
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