#07 That Dress - Ep 1 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster' Podcast By cover art

#07 That Dress - Ep 1 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster'

#07 That Dress - Ep 1 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster'

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 2 May 1937. Cecil Beaton photographs for American Vogue the twice-divorced American heiress soon to marry the ex-King Edward VIII. Wallis Simpson wears a Schiaparelli ‘waltz dress’ with a Salvador Dali red lobster down her skirt. The setting is a French chateau belonging to the American businessman who a few months later will mastermind the Windsors’ honeymoon tour of Germany. But what – other than Wallis Simpson - connects all these people? (R)

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