The love affair between the Duchess of Windsor and a gay American playboy is to be turned into a film starring Faye Dunaway. <\/P><\/p>\n
The STG5 million ($A13.63 million) British movie will tell the story of her illicit relationship with Jimmy Donahue, heir to the Woolworths fortune. <\/P><\/p>\n
Dunaway will star as the Duchess while British actor Michael York will play the Duke of Windsor in the film, The Bahama Triangle. <\/P><\/p>\n
The country was rocked in 1936 when King Edward VIII announced his abdication in order to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. <\/P><\/p>\n
In 1950, at the age of 54, the Duchess embarked on an affair with Donahue, grandson of FW Woolworth, founder of the High Street chain, almost 20 years her junior and openly homosexual. <\/P>
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\n<\/P>Much of their affair, which lasted four years, was played out in and around the Bahamas, giving the film its name. <\/P><\/p>\n
The relationship came to light in a book published three years ago, which claimed the cuckolded Duke knew all about his wife’s infidelity but was powerless to stop it. <\/P><\/p>\n
Last month papers released by the Public Records Office revealed that in 1935 the Duchess also secretly two-timed Edward, then the Prince of Wales, with car salesman Guy Trundle. <\/P><\/p>\n
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