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London - Watch out, Kate Middleton. Another royal consort is in the limelight as the royal wedding approaches.
Wallis Simpson, the American divorcée who scandalised Britain and brought down a king in the 1930s, is back in style.
She appears as a character in the Oscar-winning film "The King's Speech" - as the interloper who lures Edward VIII away from royal duties, thrusting his stammering younger brother George onto the throne.
She turns up trailing glamour and menace in recent British TV series Upstairs Downstairs and Any Human Heart.
She is the subject of two new biographies, and is the central character in W.E., a forthcoming movie directed by Madonna - one powerful woman examining another.
Her striking sense of style continues to inspire designers well after her death in 1986.
Her jewellery sold for £8m at a Sotheby's auction and now fans are even buying her lingerie.
One of her scarlet chiffon nightdresses with a cape sold for more than £6 500 at auction on Thursday and her Louis Vuitton vanity case went for £48 000 pounds.
It's still possible to feel a frisson of the scandal Simpson caused in 1930s Britain. The divorcée from Baltimore was still married to her second husband when she took up with Edward, then the heir to the British throne.
Meanwhile a revealing dress worn by Kate at a 2002 charity event attended by Prince William when they were university students has sold for £65 000.
The black see-through dress with a blue trim was bought by an unidentified buyer in London on Thursday.
It was initially intended to be worn as a skirt, but Middleton wore it as a short dress with black lingerie underneath.
Wallis Simpson, the American divorcée who scandalised Britain and brought down a king in the 1930s, is back in style.
She appears as a character in the Oscar-winning film "The King's Speech" - as the interloper who lures Edward VIII away from royal duties, thrusting his stammering younger brother George onto the throne.
She turns up trailing glamour and menace in recent British TV series Upstairs Downstairs and Any Human Heart.
She is the subject of two new biographies, and is the central character in W.E., a forthcoming movie directed by Madonna - one powerful woman examining another.
Her striking sense of style continues to inspire designers well after her death in 1986.
Her jewellery sold for £8m at a Sotheby's auction and now fans are even buying her lingerie.
One of her scarlet chiffon nightdresses with a cape sold for more than £6 500 at auction on Thursday and her Louis Vuitton vanity case went for £48 000 pounds.
It's still possible to feel a frisson of the scandal Simpson caused in 1930s Britain. The divorcée from Baltimore was still married to her second husband when she took up with Edward, then the heir to the British throne.
Meanwhile a revealing dress worn by Kate at a 2002 charity event attended by Prince William when they were university students has sold for £65 000.
The black see-through dress with a blue trim was bought by an unidentified buyer in London on Thursday.
It was initially intended to be worn as a skirt, but Middleton wore it as a short dress with black lingerie underneath.
