Her ghost-written memoirs, The Heart Has Its Reasons, were published in 1956. Author Charles Higham says of the book, “facts were remorselessly rearranged in what amounted to a self-performed face-lift … reflecting in abundance its author’s politically misguided but winning and desirable personality.” He describes the Duchess as “charismatic, electric and compulsively ambitious”.[136] Hearsay and conjecture have clouded assessment of the Duchess of Windsor’s life, not helped by her own manipulation of the truth. But there is no document which proves directly that she was anything other than a victim of her own ambition, who lived out a great romance that became a great tragedy. In the opinion of her biographers, “she experienced the ultimate fairy tale, becoming the adored favourite of the most glamorous bachelor of his time. The idyll went wrong when, ignoring her pleas, he threw up his position to spend the rest of his life with her.”
— Wallis Simpson’s Wikipedia article