![]() ![]() As Jimmy had planned, the royal couple became obsessed with him. Together with the Duke, they became an inseparable trio, the closest of friends. A burgeoning sexual relationship – a perverse sort of love – was formed between Jimmy and the Duchess. The Duchess was fifty-four, and despite the difference in age, there was an instant attraction. He was thirty-five when he was befriended by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1950. ![]() Though press agents arranged for him to be seen with female escorts, his pursuits, until he met the Duchess of Windsor, were exclusively homosexual. Gay at a time when the homosexual act was still illegal, Jimmy was notorious within America’s upper class, and loved to shock. ![]() Instead, he set about carving for himself a career of mischief. Woolworth, Jimmy knew he would never need to work. People loved him for his wit, charm and personality. ![]() He could fly a plane, speak several languages, play the piano, and tell marvelous jokes. Very few people suspected, and even fewer actually knew, that the Duchess cuckolded him-and almost gave him up-for a gay playboy twenty years her junior.īlond and slender, Jimmy Donahue was the archetypal post-war playboy. The story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor is one of the most romantic of all time: Edward VIII abdicated his throne and gave up an empire so that he could marry the woman he loved, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |