The Tip Sheet braved the five-hour time difference to speak with Sebba in London. What is it about Wallis Simpson that continues to captivate,

It was Edward, known to his intimate circle as David, who abdicated in 1936 to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. In exile they became the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Freda never once spoke about her 16-year relationship with ''your little...

Jumping between the 1930′s and modern day Manhattan is not such a large leap after all. Both the Duchess of Windsor (Andrea Riseborough) and the dreamy, wounded modern woman (Abbie Cornish) are very wealthy and privileged, with their clothes and decor...

The story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, a romantic tale in which a king gives up a throne to marry a commoner, is almost too well known, and recently capsulized in the 2010 Academy Award winner “The King’s Speech” (another Weinstein release,...

You haven't heard of Wally, because she's fictional, and very much so: Wally is a young woman in 1998 Manhattan who's married to a brute (Richard Coyle) and who spends her copious free time hanging out at Sotheby's, where a collection of the Duke and...

When Wally visits Sotheby's for the 1998 auction of the belongings of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, first the objects speak to her. Then, the late duchess materializes to advise and to commiserate. The objects - Windsor table linens, the Duchess'...