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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.
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Mar 17, 2021 · Wallis Simpson’s enduring friendship with second husband brought to light in newly-unearthed photos. It sparked a national scandal – and the abdication crisis of 1936 – when King Edward VIII made known his intention to marry an American socialite and divorcée, Wallis Simpson.
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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.
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Feb 25, 2023 · The biggest mystery in the Simpson story is Ernest’s consent and even complicity in Wallis and David’s blooming liaison.
Feb 18, 2018 · Wallis then moved to England where she married Ernest Simpson. Though she was platonically attracted to Ernest, I also believe her account that the marriage was never consummated.
- John Crace
Jul 21, 2021 · On 10 December 1927, Wallis’s divorce from Win was finalised, and Wallis returned to live at the Warren Green Hotel. Once again, Ernest Simpson asked her to marry him, and Wallis now agreed. She wrote to her mother, “I am very fond of him, and he is kind, which will be a contrast…
Apr 3, 2014 · Celebrities. Famous British People. Wallis Simpson. American socialite Wallis Simpson became the mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales. Edward abdicated the British throne in 1936 to marry her....
