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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer and then Simpson; June 19, 1896 [a] – April 24, 1986) was an American socialite and wife of former king Edward VIII. Their intention to marry and her status as a divorcée caused a constitutional crisis that led to Edward's abdication . Wallis grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.
Mar 17, 2021 · Formerly unseen photographs of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor and Ernest up for sale with Chiswick Auctions this month have revealed that the former couple stayed close, even years on from the turbulent events. The MailOnline reports that the photographs were captured during a trip Ernest made to visit Wallis and the Duke of Windsor in France in ...
Feb 17, 2012 · 02/17/2012 11:35 AM EST. The story of Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII, the man who was known, for the latter part of his life, as Edward, Duke of Windsor, is one of those tales that, even though it ...
May 3, 2021 · Embed from Getty Images. Ernest remarried twice after his divorce from Wallis, but they continued to write (infrequently) to each other. His third wife was Mary Raffray, and they were married until her death in 1941. They had a son together, who was born in 1939.
Feb 21, 2020 · Continuing that theme, Simpson's childhood friend, Mary Kirk, who married the royal consort's cuckolded second husband, Ernest Simpson, wrote in a diary of her erstwhile love rival: "I think of ...
Aug 21, 2011 · Wallis Simpson turned to her ex-husband Ernest for support Credit: Photo: HULTON/GETTY I remember how my heart leapt. It was a routine interview with someone who had insisted they had nothing to ...
Feb 25, 2023 · Her second husband, Ernest Simpson, was a Harvard man and former Coldstream guard. His father had been born in England, and, in 1928, he and Wallis settled in London so he could take up work in ...
