Above and below, Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson pictured at various phases of their storied life and marriage

Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor, was also the King who abdicated his crown for the woman he loved. The woman he loved, the twice American divorcee, was Wallis Simpson, later the Duchess of Windsor.

Despite the complicated, controversial story and history of this two, they each had more chic and style in their little fingers than many an over-and-under-dressed fashionable “celebs” of today.