author Rachel Trethewey tells the story of the women Edward V111 loved before Mrs Simpson came to dominate his life, beginning with Rosemary Leveson-Gower, a perfect aristocratic partner, then there was Freda Dudley Ward, the great love of Edward’s early life, and finally Thelma Furness, the twice married American divorcee, shedding light on those ladies’ romances with the heir to the throne and what happened to them after the end of their affairs