Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, was frantic with worry. On 16 October 1946, Wallis and her husband the Duke of Windsor – the former Edward VIII – had left Ednam Lodge in Berkshire ...

The Duchess of Windsor’s jewellery, ... which at £4.5m became the most expensive ... nobody knew — apart from the men who engraved them — that the jewels had been inscribed with this very ...

The Duchess’s collection of designer jewels was first offered at auction at a sale held along Lake Geneva in 1987, where bids soared, far exceeding pre-sale estimates.

Diamond bracelets that belonged to Marie Antoinette and a ruby and diamond bangle offered to the Duchess of Windsor by her husband on their first wedding anniversary will be on the auction block ...