Who can say for sure what will happen to the Duke of Sussex? It seems to me that he is in a state of absolute misery,” Vickers said. The backdrop of Wallis Simpson makes the term all the more harsh.
Simpson became a deeply despised member of the royal family when she urged Edward VIII to abdicate and escape to France with her.
Simpson was even stripped of the title of HRH by the Queen Mother, who had a deep-seated grudge against her.
“The significance of not making Wallace HRH was that nobody would curtsey to Wallace if they came back to England,” stated Simpson historian Anna Sebba, as reported by the Express. On many ways, this was an outright snub and an embarrassment.
Edward was the one who always opposed it. “If people aren’t going to curtsey to her, there’s no way I can bring my wonderful wife back to England to be humiliated,” he reasoned.
