Dame Joan Collins will play Wallis Simpson in biopic
Dame Joan Collins is set to play Wallis Simpson in a new biopic. The 90-year-old actress revealed she is hoping to play the late Duchess of Windsor - who died in 1986 aged 89 - in 'In Bed with the Duchess', which will cover the last 15 years of the American divorcee's life. Joan said of Wallis - whose marriage to King Edward VIII caused him to abdicate - in an interview with The Sunday Times magazine: "I’ve read so much about her. She was feisty and she was peppy. She was extremely well dressed. She was great company. "She was never a b****, but people think of her as the worst woman who ever ...