Joan Collins is to play Wallis Simpson in a biopic about the American socialite whose relationship with the British King led to his abdication.

Famous for a British king abdicating to wed her, Simpson spent a year in China tainted by vicious rumours. Paul French has a ...

After marrying in June 1937, Edward and Wallis, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, lived the rest of their lives in exile in France, with Edward dying in May 1972. The duchess died in Paris in 1986 ...

“I’ve always been fascinated by Wallis, because I think she was unfairly treated,” Collins said of the woman who sparked King Edward VIII’s abdication Stuart C. Wilson/Getty; Wolfgang Kuhn ...