When Edward VIII (then the Prince of Wales) met Wallis Simpson back in 1931, it was the start of a royal romance that changed the…
When Edward VIII met Wallis Simpson back in 1931, it was the start of a royal romance that changed the course of history — it was also the beginning of a very impressive jewelry collection.
On April 3, 1987, those jewels made history, going under the hammer at Sotheby’s in Geneva, fetching over $50 million — a world record for a single-owner jewelry collection and six times the expected figure.You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. The vast collection, which included over 200 pieces of stunning jewelry, were gifts the Duke of Windsor had lavished on Simpson over the course of their lives together. The collection also included a 19-karat emerald and diamond ring commemorating their secret engagement in 1936, inscribed with the words “We Are Ours Now.” It sold for $1.98 million.The then-King Edward VIII gave up the throne to controversially marry Wallis, who hailed from Baltimore, Maryland, in the U.S.
As requested on her death in 1986 , all proceeds were left to the Pasteur Institute in Paris, a medical research foundation which specializing in AIDS and cancer research.
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