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The pen is mightier! Prince Harry might be the latest royal to tell all in a memoir, but he’s hardly the first.

Prince Harry isn’t the first royal to step back from duties and later write a tell-all. His great-great-uncle, Edward, Duke of Windsor, produced a ghost-written biography titled "A King’s Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor" in 1951.

When Meghan Markle became engaged to Prince Harry, the former Hollywood actress was instantly compared to another American divorcee who married a British royal. And while it’s easy to find similarities between the women, one royal author insisted they couldn’t be more different.

Seeing double! Fans were quick to call out that Meghan Markle’s dress choice for her CBS tell-all interview bears a striking resemblance to one worn by Wallis Simpson​​​, the American actress who sparked royal controversy.

READ MORE: Death in Paradise: How will Sara Martins return?Grace Verdinikov is played by British actor Lia Williams in episodes five and six. She is one of the suspects in a murder enquiry as well as being good friends with Catherine Bordey.

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Page Six. And by doing so, she made history, becoming the first known British royal to vote in a U.S.

When Edward VIII passed away in 1972 at age 77, he seemingly left behind an epic love story of a British king who gave up the throne to marry the American woman he loved -- but in reality, it was far from a fairy tale. The relationship between Edward and socialite Wallis Simpson is explored in Smithsonian Channel’s docuseries titled “Private Lives of the Monarchs,” which aims to uncover the “illicit affairs and secret scandals” hidden behind palace doors.

All eyes are on Meghan Markle right now as she and Prince Harry step back from their royal duties, and begin their new lives with baby Archie in California. But not too long ago, tabloids were filled with headlines about another American duchess: Wallis Simpson.

By Mike Fleming Jr