Editing Wallis Simpson (section)

==Later life==
[[File:Nixon and the Windsors.jpg|thumb|Wallis and Edward at the White House for dinner with President [[Richard Nixon]], 1970]]
In 1946, when Wallis was staying at Ednam Lodge, the home of the [[William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley|Earl of Dudley]], some of her jewels were stolen. There were rumors that the theft had been masterminded by the royal family as an attempt to regain jewels taken from the [[Royal Collection]] by Edward, or by the Windsors themselves as part of an insurance fraud—they made a large deposit of loose stones at [[Cartier SA|Cartier]] the following year. However, in 1960, career criminal Richard Dunphie confessed to the crime. The stolen pieces were only a small portion of the Windsor jewels, which were either bought privately, inherited by the Duke, or given to Edward when he was Prince of Wales.<ref>Menkes, pp. 192–193</ref>

In 1952, the Windsors were offered the use of a house by the Paris municipal authorities. The couple lived at [[4 route du Champ d'Entraînement]] in the [[Bois de Boulogne]], near [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], for most of the remainder of their lives, essentially living a life of easy retirement.<ref>Menkes, pp. 11–48</ref> They traveled frequently between Europe and America aboard [[ocean liners]]. They bought a second house in the country, ''Moulin de la Tuilerie'' or "The Mill" in [[Gif-sur-Yvette]], where they soon became close friends with their neighbors, [[Oswald Mosley|Oswald]] and Diana Mosley.<ref>Ziegler, p. 545</ref> Years later, Diana Mosley said that Wallis and Edward shared her and her husband's views that Hitler should have been given a free hand to destroy Communism.<ref>Higham, p. 450</ref>

In 1965, the Duke and Duchess visited London as Edward required eye surgery for a [[detached retina]]; Edward's niece Queen Elizabeth{{nbsp}}II and sister-in-law [[Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent]], visited them. Edward's sister, the [[Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood|Princess Royal]], also visited them just 10 days before her death. Wallis and Edward attended her memorial service in [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>Vickers, p. 360</ref> Later, in 1967, they joined the royal family in London for the unveiling of a plaque by Elizabeth{{nbsp}}II to commemorate the centenary of Queen Mary's birth.<ref>King, pp. 455–459; Vickers, p. 362</ref> The couple spoke to [[Kenneth Harris (journalist)|Kenneth Harris]] for an extensive [[The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in conversation with Kenneth Harris|BBC television interview in 1970]].<ref name="Times70">{{citation |title='Clash with the Establishment was inevitable' |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS168391214/TTDA?u=wes_ttda&sid=TTDA&xid=2e4e78c3 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |work=The Times |first=David |last=Wilsworth |issue=57767 |date=January 14, 1970 |page=10}}</ref> Both Queen Elizabeth&nbsp;II and her son [[Charles, Prince of Wales]], visited the Windsors in Paris in Edward's later years, the Queen's visit being shortly before Edward's death.<ref>Bloch, ''The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor'', p. 299; Vickers; pp. 15–16, 367</ref> For much of their later lives, Wallis and Edward were served by their valet and footman [[Sydney Johnson (servant)|Sydney Johnson]].<ref name="Pasternak">{{cite book |last=Anna |first=Pasternak |date=2020 |title=The American Duchess. The Real Wallis Simpson |publisher=Atria Books |page=246 |isbn=9781501198458}}</ref>