I saw a documentary about Wallis Simpson that was rather interesting. They said in it she was not in love with him but was rather playing a game...along with her then husband who was happy with her philandering with the future king. She eventually got her “King”, but then no throne. By then her ex-husband, whom she did truly love, was done with her, and had moved on and she was forever entrapped with this man that she didn’t actually love. She created her own prison.
If you want to see what that romance was like to those nearby, pick up the first two volumes of the the Chips Channon Diaries. I enjoy that period of British history (1910-1945) and have read other diaries of the era. Chips was a wealthy American bounder who married the Guinness heiress, was a part time fag, an MP and the biggest social climber in the British royal circles.
It is out with a great job of editing and he has an abundance of vile opinions.