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Sep 21, 2023 · Thus, in 1937, Ernest hatched a plan to leave his marriage without drawing further attention to Wallis' shenanigans. As explained in Anna Sebba's "That Woman: The Life Of Wallis Simpson, Duchess Of Windsor," Ernest booked a hotel room with another woman. This allowed Wallis to claim that she was divorcing Ernest for his infidelity.
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).
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.
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.
May 13, 2022 · Wallis was in the middle of divorcing Spencer when she met Ernest Aldrich Simpson. Ernest was a big step up from her first husband, his father was a co-founder of a successful shipping business ...
Aug 21, 2011 · Wallis Simpson's secret letters to her ex-husband. A newly uncovered cache of notes to Ernest Simpson reveals the anguish she was suffering at the start of her tumultuous royal affair with Edward ...
