The interview was recorded at the Windsors' Parisian home in 4 route du Champ d'Entraînement, in Bois de Boulogne in October 1969.
[6] The Radio Times wrote that Edward discussed "the Establishment, his father, golf, blood sports, and his great-niece" and Wallis "children and their parents, careers for women, loneliness, and the Duke's bad habits".
[1] Wallis wore a "yellow, chiffon dress, blue eyeshadow and a nervous grimace" according to Alice Hutton, with Edward wearing an "oversized grey suit".
[6] Edward stated that he would have liked to have reigned longer "... but I was going to do it under my own conditions, so I do not have any regrets, but I take a great interest in my country ... which is Britain, your land and mine, and I wish it well".
[6] He recalled reading in a newspaper article "two or three years ago" that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was not really part of the Establishment as "he goes out very much on his own" and that "nor was the Duke of Windsor" which Edward regarded as "... very true" feeling that his father, George V, and his brother, George VI, were part of the Establishment, but that "I was independent".
[6][10] Edward felt that "young people today" behaved "extremely well" with Wallis feeling that they were "much more independent mentally" than in her youth.
[6] In a conversation about careers and jobs, Wallis said that she had wished to be the "head of an advertising agency" with Edward saying that he had had no reply after he had offered his services following his time spent as Governor of the Bahamas.
[4] Vickers noted "one especially telling moment" when at one point Wallis announces "We're very happy" and describes Edward as looking "suddenly relieved ... and fumbles uncomfortably for her hand, which he then holds".
Writing in The Independent, Sean O'Grady wrote that Edward and Wallis's interview was "mostly harmless anecdotes" and their love story was "a bit of a Megxit prototype ... American divorcee comes over here, whirlwind romance, steals our dashing royal, takes him into exile, argues with his brother about money and titles, stripped of much of a role ... you get the idea".
[8] Hutton felt that "What is striking ... is just how boring the sit down is" and noted that Wallis was "asked an extraordinary succession of questions about whether women, in 1970, were destroying their sex if they wanted to work".
Harris asked Wallis if she "[didn't] think that women have suffered somewhat over the last 30-years by being too competitive with men, that they've lost something of their essential character and charm?"