One link between the Williams is that they both attended Eton College.
He worked for the Commonwealth Office and lived overseas, first in Lagos and then in Tokyo.
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Upon their second meeting, he called her “Cinderella” and asked her to dance.
Starkloff said, “It came as no shock to me.
I was seven years older than William, for a start, divorced, and of a different religion.
I knew it was doomed.”
Queen Elizabeth II was reportedly worried about scandal, similar toEdward VIII’s relationship with Wallis Simpson.
He still brought Starkloff to Scotland to meet his parents and an uncle.
The two didn’t marry (and William never married at all), but Starkloff never forgot him.
William’s health wasn’t stellar, either.
“Flying is my great relaxation,” William said, according toThe New York Times.
William’s death on August 28, 1972, wasa tragedy that shook the royal family.
According to Starkloff’s Daily Mail interview, she wore her ring from William on a necklace.
He had a version of the ring, too.
“The eerie thing is that he wrote me a letter just before he died,” Starkloff said.
He wanted us to be together."
She thought he would propose and added, “He died wearing my ring.
And I still think about him every day.”
