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- In 1926, as Wallis waited out her divorce from Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., known as Win, she was invited by her old friend Mary Kirk to spend Christmas with her and her husband Jacques Raffray in New York. She and Mary got on well together and spent many days shopping and sightseeing. It was Mary who introduced Wallis to Mr and Mrs Ernest Simpson.
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Jul 21, 2021 · It was Mary who introduced Wallis to Mr and Mrs Ernest Simpson. Ernest had been born in New York to an English father and an American mother, and he eventually became a British subject. He had married Dorothea Dechert in 1923, and they had one daughter – Audrey – together.
In 1931, during her second marriage, to Ernest Simpson, she met Edward, then Prince of Wales. Five years later, after Edward's accession as King of the United Kingdom, Wallis divorced Ernest to marry Edward.
Apr 20, 2024 · After living for a time in Warrenton, Virginia, she traveled to England, where she met Ernest A. Simpson, an American-born British subject. They were married in 1928 and lived near London. Wallis Simpson met Edward, then the prince of Wales, while moving in fashionable British society.
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Sep 21, 2023 · On May 3, 1937, Wallis and Ernest Simpson were granted a divorce. In the wake of this high-profile separation, many people assumed that Wallis would soon be walking down the aisle with King Edward VIII.
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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...
Mar 29, 2021 · Within the year, Wallis had been introduced to Edward’s mother, Queen Mary, which was seen as an outrage – divorcees were still very much shunned in aristocratic circles, and there was the small matter of Wallis still actually being married to her second husband Ernest.
Like Lady Furness, Mrs Simpson was born in America, and was already once divorced. In 1928 she made a second marriage to Ernest Simpson, a native of New York who had served in the Coldstream Guards and become a naturalised British citizen.
