Description: "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love"

King Edward VIII, from his famous abdication speech of 1936.

A lucite box in the shape of heart formerly property of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The heavy heart shaped lucite slider is a relic of one of the most scandalous romances of the 20th Century and property from the Villa Windsor in the Bois de Boulogne, decorated by Maison Jansen and dispersed by Sothebys in the 1990s.