Aunt Wallis’ Butler Included on Queen’s Annual Honors List
The French butler who served the Duchess of Windsor was named today in Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year honors list, along with novelist Iris Murdoch, playwright Alan Ayckbourn, six people who fought a fire in King Henry VIII’s Hampton Court Palace and scores of others.
The queen’s personal list of honors included an honorary Royal Victorian silver medal to Georges Sanegre, who served the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at their Paris mansion for 40 years and was holding the duchess’s hand when she died in April at age 89.
The duchess, American-born divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, was shunned by the Royal Family after King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 to marry her. He was given the title Duke of Windsor and died in 1972.
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