Solicitor Robert Egerton’s familiarity with the hotel at the heart of the divorce case made his wife suspicious, recalls Hugo VickersI can add a curious postscript to Robert Egerton’s involvement with the Hotel de Paris at Bray (How a posh hotel nearly ruined Wallis Simpson’s divorce plans, 23 December). I used to know his first wife, Sheila, and she told me that when they married, he took her to that hotel for the first night of their honeymoon. He explained that when dealing with the Simpson divorce case, he had been so taken by the hotel that he decided that when he married he would take his bride there. Hugo VickersLondon• Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com• Read more Guardian letters – click here to visit gu.com/letters• Do you have a photo you’d like to share with Guardian readers? Click here to upload it and we’ll publish the best submissions in the letters spread of our print edition

Source: The Guardian December 27, 2019 17:03 UTC