Styled as the romance of the century, the wedding day and
the honeymoon of Duke of Windsor - King of England from 20th January to 11th December 1936 - did not live to
its expectations.
It started off with an unexpectedly quiet wedding as the
majority of guests declined the invitation to attend.
The honeymoon was even quieter.
After an obligatory tour of Venice and Milan, the couple
settled for three months in the
Carinthian Mountains, in Austria.
Their honeymoon home was Castle
Wasserloenburg, a fifteenth century castle reportedly inhabited by the restless
spirit of the ‘Bluebeard Duchess’. Not to be confused with the French fairytale
‘Blue Beard’ by Charles Perault, and the Hungarian one-act opera ‘Bluebeard's Castle’ by Bartok, apparently
in this castle it was the lady who kept track of disobedient husbands.
As the honeymoon consisted of walking or hiking the new wife
seems to soon tire of it. She spent hours writing letters. Quite
a few to her ex husband. What could she have said? ‘Wish you were here’?
Taken from my book
'Honeymoon! A Sizzle or a Fizzle?'
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