What to make of Baltimore's Wallis Simpson, better known as the Duchess of Windsor? Well, if you happen to be Diana Mosley (née Mitford, yes, one of those Mitfords), there's very much to make of her indeed. Spectacularly Delicious concerns ourselves today with one of the Duchess's signature dishes, Shrimp and Corn pie, via a circuitous route through Windsor and Milford history.
First, a little about this authorized biographer of The Duchess of Windsor. Diana Freeman-Mitford (1910-2003). Diana was considered the beauty of the six Mitford sisters which surely helped her land husband #1, Bryan Walter Guinness, heir to the barony of Moyne and all that beer money to boot. After quickly producing producing two perfectly lovely children Diana bolted for the true lasting love of her life, Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet of Ancoast and leader of the British Union of Fascists.
Diana and Oswald's Fascist credentials are impeccable: married in the home of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler was guest of honor and by some accounts, best man. Charming, right? Diana left us in 2003, regretting nothing. In her opinion Adolf got a bad rap because he look so fierce in photos when really he was quite a charmer. Diana wasn't ever much of a fan of the Jews so that wasn't an issue for her.
But she was quite a fan of the Duchess of Windsor, who had plenty of detractors herself. You'll recall our Duchess's "dook" infamously quit his day job as England's King Edward VIII to marry this twice-divorced American charmer. Turned out to be a bad career move. (See: Academy Award-winning The King's Speech.)
Contemporary accounts copiously document the ill-will the former Mrs. Simpson engendered. Subsequent history has not been kind either. A Google search of "Duchess of Windsor + Despised" turns up more than two million results.
But her BFF Diana Mosley aimed to set the record straight in her authorized biography published in 1980 maintains HRH the Duchess of Windsor was beautiful, kind, generous, loving,and in the end, a wonderfully positive influence on the monarchy. Diana's take on the abdication scandal: "The royal family is as popular as ever, members of it can marry anyone they fancy and nobody minds when a marriage ends, or begins, with a divorce." Duchess of Windsor, pioneer of marriage rights!
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Still, no one disputes the Duchess loved herself a good party. For brevity's sake, allow me to lift a few phrases about dinner parties chez Windsor: "..the prettiest, most cheerful place imaginable…footmen on vigilant door-duty so not a second was lost as guest arrived… dinner jackets, evening dresses and the Duke in his tartan kilt… cocktails and whiskies and hot savouries in silver dishes…the table was very pretty and gay with many candles and flowers."
Had you been lucky enough to secure an invitation to dinner your table mates might have included the likes of Elsie de Wolfe, Cecil Beaton, Evelyn Waugh and Jimmy Donahue (look him up for a good read).
The Duchess's table wasn't all grouse and puddings and filet of barbu in rich sauces Mrs. Mosley remembers better. She mixed things up from time to time with recipes from her mother's boarding house back in Baltimore. Gail Monaghan's lavishly illustrated book The Entrées shares one of the Warfield family's celebrated recipes, Shrimp and Corn Pie. This glorified corn pudding is enriched with shrimp and topped with delicate chive biscuits. It also calls for onion juice, something I've never encountered in a recipe before, but your ginger scraper does a great job doing this.
A modest recipe perhaps, but the Duchess was a modest woman. Just ask Diana Mitford.
Click here for the recipe for The Duchess of Windsor's Shrimp and Corn Pie.