![]() Yet during the course of my lengthy researches I talked to many surviving friends of the Windsors and the Donahues, and they all confirmed it was so. I could hardly believe such a thing to be true. ![]() She was almost paralyzed by the intensity of the relationship, and for four years it blinded her to the consequences of cuckolding the man who quit throne, country and empire for "the woman I love." Mired in a passionless marriage that lasted 35 years, this was her only infidelity, and when it was over, the name Jimmy Donahue was never mentioned again in the Windsor household. The duchess, I discovered, had had an affair with a homosexual New Yorker, Jimmy Donahue. It hardly seems possible that further examples of their epic glamour, failings and allure could be unearthed, yet in researching my book "Dancing With the Devil" I mined an extraordinary gem. The Windsors and their weaknesses have made elegant copy for writers over half a century. ![]() ![]() Author Christopher Wilson responds, in a fashion, to Peter Kurth's review of his book "Dancing With the Devil: The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue." Read the review. ![]()
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