A boy is holding a girl so very tight

Just an eanum blog about our Wallis and David and the dear romance.

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Ode to Memory

(by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

My friend, with you to live alone, Were how much better than to own A crown, a sceptre, and a throne! O strengthen, enlighten me! I faint in this obscurity, Thou dewy dawn of memory.

(Above: After six months of separation, the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield reunited at Château de Candé on May 4, 1937.) The poem above (more specifically the lines in bold though slightly paraphrased) was mentioned in the movie The Woman He Loved, where David wrote the same words to Wallis before the abdication.

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A box containing a piece of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s wedding cake.

The box is inscribed ‘A piece of our wedding cake’ with the date ‘3-VI-37’. The couple have both signed it ‘WE’ (Wallis & Edward).

The cake sold at Sotheby’s Windsor auction in 1998, fetching US$29,900 - making it the world’s most expensive slice of wedding cake. The auction brought in over $23 million and generated much publicity; there was even a Seinfeld episode about the cake!

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"A king shall reign — a king shall fall. It means but little — love means all."

- On a banner at a decorated house in London to celebrate the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

89 years ago today, a man with teary eyes put a ring on the finger of the woman whom he gave up an empire for.

June 3, 1937

That date would mark the beginning of a life of unstoppable profound love and the bittersweet "what could've been"s. While it wasn't definitely a " they lived happily ever after", both were adamant in being contented with each other. If there's a song that could summarize the life they lead, it was definitely none other the theme of The Woman He Loved.

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Lethal.

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Lol not me getting only 2 hours of sleep because I slept late preparing what I'd post for WE's anniversary and couldn't get to sleep enough from then on😅 I think this is what I get from sneaking behind my mom's back when she's clearly getting mad at my sleep schedule

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reading about WE in Daily Mail is like performing self-torture 🥲

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June is the month of WE 💓

I'm excited for June 3!

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Making this post at 1:55 AM to remind me in the morning of my sudden urge now to make a tiktok account dedicated to WE (creating a tiktok account now is a bit of a work since im literally hiding under a blanket to not get caught still using my phone at this hour)

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David had all THIS to himself btw😉 worth all the jewels and the EMPIRE in my opinion😛

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and given that wallis didn't even know her letters (even the ones for aunt b) would get published, she gave them to her secretary to be burned

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The whole point of historians and biographers existing is to shed light on the private life of a prominent figure, to humanize them, to find answers why they were like that, to understand their circumstances and the norms, laws, and course of events of the time that ultimately lead to their action that contributed to history. Misogyny, homophobia, racism and many other factors that root from prejudice and close mindedness diminishes significance and compresses historical figures into one dimensional characters printed in biased materials.

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someone commented under a video about WE that "Wallis always seemed exasperated, uninterested in photos that she was with Edward", others go along with that bs too. Well not only that I can show that person a load of WE pics that Wallis was smiling or laughing with David (and ones even David was the one expressionless), here is another pinterest whisper I made.

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planning to create more images like these so ill get to post them on pinterest too

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May 28, 1972 - 54 years ago today, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David who reigned as Edward VIII and later known as HRH The Duke of Windsor has passed away.

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As I learned more and more about WE and did some bit of reflection, I do just now begin to deeply appreciate their dynamic. Before, I was just into it because of the "obsession" thing (I grew up reading wattpad okay) but as I learned about the gravity of the abdication crisis, the more they leaned on to each other, their struggles, the pain, and how David actually loved Wallis beyond the "in dire need of maternal-like love" and how Wallis genuinely cared about and for him, it pinches my heart really.

IT IS THE GREATEST LOVE STORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY but yall need to distinguish it from "the greatest fairy tale romance of the 20th century"

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I change my mind about Wallis and Edward (2005) was my favorite, it definitely is The Woman He Loved (1988) It's so heart wrenching omg. Go. listen. to. the. theme. now.

When I rewatched this movie, I just realized how it perfectly captured how bittersweet what Wallis and David went through and the poignant life they lived.

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amazing how you can find so many rare WE pics at ebay and other auction sites