In 1965, the Duke and Duchess visited London as Edward required eye surgery for a detached retina; Edward's niece Queen ElizabethII and sister-in-law Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, visited them. Edward's sister, the Princess Royal, also visited them just 10 days before her death. Wallis and Edward attended her memorial service in Westminster Abbey.Vickers, p. 360 Later, in 1967, they joined the royal family in London for the unveiling of a plaque by ElizabethII to commemorate the centenary of Queen Mary's birth.King, pp. 455–459; Vickers, p. 362 The couple spoke to Kenneth Harris for an extensive BBC television interview in 1970. Both Queen Elizabeth II and her son Charles, Prince of Wales, visited the Windsors in Paris in Edward's later years, the Queen's visit being shortly before Edward's death.Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, p. 299; Vickers; pp. 15–16, 367 For much of their later lives, Wallis and Edward were served by their valet and footman Sydney Johnson.
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