Editing Wallis Simpson (section)

==Death==
{{main|Death and funeral of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor}}
Wallis died on April 24, 1986, at her home in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, at the age of 89 from [[bronchial pneumonia]].<ref name="weir"/><ref>{{cite news |title=The Duchess Of Windsor Dies at 89 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627223709/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/04/25/the-duchess-of-windsor-dies-at-89/527355f5-b283-441c-b892-a5d35c0a341f/ |archive-date=June 27, 2022 |url-status=live |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/04/25/the-duchess-of-windsor-dies-at-89/527355f5-b283-441c-b892-a5d35c0a341f/}}</ref> Her funeral was held on April 29 at [[St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]], attended by her two surviving sisters-in-law&nbsp;– Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and [[Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester]]&nbsp;– and other members of the royal family.<ref>Vickers, pp. 191–198</ref> The Queen and her husband, [[Prince Philip]], attended both the funeral ceremony and the burial, as did their son Charles and daughter-in-law [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Diana]].<ref name="bbc"/> Diana said afterwards that it was the only time she had seen the Queen weep.<ref>{{citation|page=98|title=The Queen's Speech: An Intimate Portrat of the Queen in Her Own Words|author=Ingrid Seward|year=2016|publisher=Simon & Schuster, Limited |isbn=9781471150982}}</ref>

Wallis was buried next to Edward in the [[Royal Burial Ground]] near Windsor Castle, as "Wallis, Duchess of Windsor".<ref name="bbc">{{citation |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/29/newsid_2500000/2500427.stm |publisher=BBC |title=Simple funeral rites for Duchess |date=April 29, 1998 |access-date=May 2, 2010}}</ref> Prior to an agreement with Elizabeth{{nbsp}}II in the 1960s, Wallis and Edward had previously planned for a burial in a purchased cemetery plot at [[Green Mount Cemetery]] in Baltimore, where Wallis's father was interred.<ref>{{citation |title=Windsors had a plot at Green Mount |last=Rasmussen |first=Frederick |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=April 29, 1986}}; Vickers, p. 245</ref>

In recognition of the help France gave to the Windsors in providing them with a home, and in lieu of death duties, Wallis's collection of [[Louis XVI style]] furniture, some [[porcelain]], and paintings were made over to the French state.<ref>King, p. 506; Menkes, pp. 198, 206 and 207</ref> The British royal family received no major bequests. Most of her estate went to the [[Pasteur Institute]] medical research foundation, on the instructions of Suzanne Blum. The decision took the royal family and Wallis's friends by surprise, as she had shown little interest in charity during her life.<ref>Menkes, p. 200</ref>

In a [[Sotheby's]] auction in Geneva, in April 1987, Wallis's jewelry collection raised $45&nbsp;million for the institute, approximately seven times its pre-sale estimate.<ref>Culme, p. 7</ref> Blum later said that Egyptian entrepreneur [[Mohamed Al-Fayed]] tried to purchase the jewels for a "rock bottom price".<ref>{{citation |author1=Wadler, Joyce |author2=Hauptfuhrer, Fred |date=January 8, 1990 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20116503,00.html |title=Egypt's Al Fayed Restores the House Fit for a Former King |work=[[People (American magazine)|People]] |volume=33 |issue=1}}</ref> Al-Fayed bought much of the non-financial estate, including the lease of the Paris mansion. An auction of his collection was announced in July 1997 for later that year in New York.<ref>Vickers, pp. 234–235</ref> Delayed by [[Dodi Fayed|his son]]'s death in [[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales|the car crash]] that also claimed the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, the sale raised more than £14&nbsp;million for charity in 1998.<ref name="bbc" />