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Wallis Simpson and her royal hubby left the high life to pretend to be ‘everyday people’ in America — sound familiar?

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UK noble led ‘modest’ life

European royalty stories brought memories back to my earliest news interview. Like me back with some long-gone journalistic op that left us when Coolidge was in kindergarten. My interviewee? Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, who had the warmth of an avalanche.

The suite? No. 25A. She and the Duke of Windsor roughed it in a six-room Waldorf palace. The silk couch? Covered with a giant-size leopard skin that once covered a giant-size live leopard. Said the duchess: “It’s ours. The duke himself shot it. We always take it with us.”

“The hotel once decorated specially for us and we’d ship furnishings back and forth, but it’s now getting too expensive. And that’s even though the hotel gives us a discount rate.”

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