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Winifred May Mones, Marquesa de Casa Maury (née Birkin, formerly Dudley Ward; 28 July 1894 – 16 March 1983), commonly known by her first married name as Freda Dudley Ward, was an English socialite. She was best known for being a married paramour of Edward, Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VIII.
Knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim, 12 November 1923 [175] Collar of the Order of Carol I, 1924 [174] ... Edward to Mrs Freda Dudley Ward 1918–1921.
The then-Prince of Wales wrote the four-page letter to his mistress Freda Dudley Ward in 1919. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
Dudley Ward may refer to: Freda Dudley Ward (1894–1983), mistress of the Prince of Wales from 1918 to 1923. General Sir Alfred Dudley Ward (1905–1991), Governor of Gibraltar; Dudley Ward (judge) (1827–1913), New Zealand judge and politician; Viscounts Dudley and Ward, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; M. Dudley Ward (1873–1958 ...
The letter to his mistress Freda Dudley Ward was written when he was the Prince of Wales in 1919. Edward VIII’s love letter fetches more than £7,000 at auction Skip to main content
Ward was born Mary Meynell in Derbyshire to Emma Maria Wilmot and Godfrey Franceys Meynell in April 1873. [1] [2] She became a vegetarian in her youth out of disgust of slaughterhouses. [3] In 1910, she married John Dudley Ward. [2] She was honorary secretary of the Paddington and North Kensington Anti-Vivisection Society.
Rose's society debut is in 1923, when Cora presents her before King George V, Queen Mary, and Edward, Prince of Wales. Rose befriends the prince's mistress, Freda Dudley Ward, who comes to her when a letter from the prince is stolen by Terence Sampson, a greedy acquaintance from Robert's club. The Crawleys and Rose succeed in retrieving the ...
Among them were mostly married women like Freda Dudley Ward and Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness. [citation needed] He was introduced to Wallis Simpson in January 1931 by Lady Furness, and they became lovers in 1934. When he ascended the throne in 1936 she had divorced her first husband and was in the process of divorcing her second husband ...