Background: 沃利斯-辛普森，这位曾让英国国王爱德华八世为她放弃了大英帝国王位的女人，可能还爱着她的前夫，恩斯特-辛普森。在多封沃利斯写给恩斯特的、没有被曝光过的书信中，沃利斯透露了当年她自己的孤独感，和自己对于这场婚姻的不确定性。

The popular image is that of a rather cold,

scheming

woman who

wormed her way into

the affections of Britain's future king. But previously unseen letters suggest that Wallis Simpson was an

insecure

woman who

felt trapped

by her relationship with Edward. The letters have been

uncovered

by Anne Sebba. She says they show that Wallis Simpson might still have been in love with her second husband Ernest Simpson.

Additional extracts reveal the extent of Mrs Simpson's continued love for her former husband, even writing to him while on her honeymoon with Edward. Anne Sebba says that as an American, Mrs Simpson loved the access to the highest levels of English society,

to be showered with

expensive jewellery, to be the mistress of the future king. But she expected the eventual fate of most mistresses, which is

to be dumped

.

But he didn't dump her, causing the biggest

constitutional crisis

for centuries. Despite the

widespread criticism

of his relationship with the American divorcee, Edward VIII