The controversy surrounding Wallis Simpsons' affair with Guy Trundle has gathered momentum after further revelations about the handsome car salesman.
It was reported on Wednesday that Wallis was involved with Guy while she was romancing Edward VIII and still married to her husband Ernest Aldrich Simpson.
Secret police files also disclose that her lover Guy Trundle, who was himself a married man, was in turn keeping a mistress, Eileen Fearnley-Whittingstall. Eileen too was married.
The web of romance and deception has provoked a storm of controversy and questions over how the protagonists managed to keep it secret for so long. Trundle, a former World War I pilot, never mentioned his affair with Wallis to anyone – not even his closest friends and loved-ones. He kept their relationship absolutely secret right up until his death in 1958.
His silence has prompted speculation that he was working for the intelligence services in a bid to test Wallis' character. "Knowing Guy as I did, I simply refuse to believe he entered into an affair with Wallis Simpson for its own sake," said his old Air Force pal Captain Val Bailey. "She was absolutely the kind of woman he was not interested in," continued the 82-year-old.
"I know it may sound very John Le Carre-ish, but I can't help feeling Guy may have been put up to it by the security people so they could test how vulnerable Wallis might be to this sort of thing…he wasn't a blabber, but it defies belief that he didn't mention at some time that he had known the Duchess in the Thirties."
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