The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1966. Wallis was acutely aware of his family's unwillingness to accept her The Duke did not heed that advice. Bitterness came easily to him and, since he had nothing to do, he had time to mull it all over. Years later, he told the biographer Kenneth Rose: 'Twenty years I worked for my country and they kicked me out on my ass.' The social historian Cleveland Amory, who helped ghost the Windsors' autobiographies, wrote: 'Almost every conversat