How bizarre the wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson on 3rd June 1937 was.
There were almost no guests. A renegade priest hosted the ceremony. The Royal Family boycotted it.
And the man who hosted the lavish affair was a Nazi collaborator. He later asked for a Faustian deal with the Duke which would damn him for ever.
One of the few guests who attended, the Duke's fixer Walter Monckton, later said, ‘It was a strange wedding