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Ernest Aldrich Simpson (6 May 1897 – 30 November 1958) was an American-born British shipbroker, who was the second husband of Wallis Simpson, later the wife of the former King Edward VIII. Simpson served as an officer in the Coldstream Guards before becoming a shipbroker in the family firm of SSY .
Feb 10, 2012 · Having found this new material, this extraordinary archive of letters form Wallis to [second ex-husband] Ernest Simpson makes it clear that Ernest was really the deep love of her life. I don’t ...
Apr 3, 2014 · By then, Wallis had met Ernest Aldrich Simpson, an English-American shipping executive. They married in London in 1928 and moved into a large flat with several servants.
May 3, 2021 · Wallis and Ernest Aldrich Simpson had met sometime in 1926 as she waited out her divorce from Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. through friends of hers, Mary (née Kirk) and her husband, Jacques Raffray. Ernest was then still married to Dorothea Webb Dechert, with whom he had a daughter named Audrey (born in 1924).
Feb 21, 2020 · Wallis Simpson's hard lessons for Harry and Meghan. 21 February 2020. By Jude Sheerin,BBC, Washington. Getty Images. A popular, playful prince falls in love with a strong-willed US divorcee,...
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...
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer and then Simpson; June 19, 1896 – 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 .
