Higham was right, we would not now be enjoying Dancing with the Devil, with its scholarly documentation of the oral sex enjoyed by Jimmy and Her Grace.įar more to the point than the Duke’s possible homo- or bisexuality is the likelihood that his sexuality was infantile and self-abasing. Higham also suggests that it was the Duke, not the Duchess, with whom Jimmy Donahue had his royal fling, although “it is impossible to corroborate this story.” Which is fortunate, since if Mr. Higham tells us, reveal that “on one occasion, sat on the head of the handsome Lord Claud Hamilton of the Grenadier Guards and stripped him naked,” but couldn’t that just have been royal high jinks? Mr. Higham, gossip also linked the Prince romantically with his cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten, although “such gossip cannot be substantiated today.” Lord Louis’ diaries, Mr. Higham’s, remind us that at Oxford the Prince was linked romantically with his tutor, Henry Peter Hansell (they were known around campus as “Hansel and Gretel”). Question: Was the Prince of Wales/King Edward VIII/Duke of Windsor hetero-, homo- or bisexual?Īnswer: further confusion. Wilson, having raised the issue, manfully acknowledges, “There is of course no direct evidence of this syndrome in the Duchess.” Well, we’ll never know, but my hunch is that the Duchess was in fact a woman. On the other hand, Charles Higham, in The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life, the fullest biography to date, is convincing on the subject of the many men (including her first two husbands) with whom she clearly did experience intercourse, to say nothing of the odd abortion. Wilson explains that the Duchess might have been suffering from Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, which not only leaves “women” unable to bear children but “often” unable to experience sexual intercourse.
She was a man.” You may question this fourth-hand opinion, but Mr. There’s no doubt of it, for I’ve heard the details from a colleague who examined her. John Randall, “consultant psychiatrist at the Charing Cross Hospital in London and an expert in the differences between men and women.” Randall to Bloch: “The Duchess was a man. Wilson quotes Windsor insider Michael Bloch, who in turn quotes Dr.
Question: What, actually, was the Duchess’ gender?Īnswer: Mr.
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