Although I have never heard that the two couples were especially close, King Leopold and his wife did go golfing with the Windsors in France. Here is a clip of such a tourney in Cannes.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
A Note from Cuba
Although I have never heard that the two couples were especially close, King Leopold and his wife did go golfing with the Windsors in France. Here is a clip of such a tourney in Cannes.
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The two couples may have been close during the late 1940's. I remember reading this in Philip Ziegler's Edward VIII, William Collins Sons and Co., 1990.
“Among the exiled monarchs, the only one whom the Windsors saw with some regularity was Leopold of the Belgians, who had married his former mistress, the Princess de Rethy.”page 528.
Queen Mary writes in a letter to George VI, “I was grieved that Leopold of the Belgians and his wife saw quite a lot of her (the Duchess of Windsor) in the South of France lately...” page 531.
There is no mention in the book of the King and the Princess after they returned to Belgium.
That's interesting. Leopold's sister Marie-José, by the way, met with the Windsors at one point and remembered Wallis as an intelligent conversationalist, and Edward as totally under her spell.
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