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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 .
Royal London Wax Museum - Wallis Simpson & the Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII) Royal London Wax Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Date: 19 September 2010, 12:02: Source: Victoria, BC: Author: Herb Neufeld
The wedding of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis Simpson took place on Thursday 3 June 1937 at Château de Candé in France. The bride was a twice-divorced American socialite whose relationship with the groom, formerly King Edward VIII, caused a constitutional crisis which led to his abdication in December 1936.
See photos of Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII together: According to People, Simpson had reportedly also told a longtime friend, Herman Rogers, that she loved him. Though she met him as her ...
The funeral of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer, later Simpson), took place on April 29, 1986. Wallis was the widow of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, who had been King of the United Kingdom from January 20 to December 11, 1936, reigning as Edward VIII before his abdication to marry Wallis, an American ...
The two were married from 1937 until the end of Edward’s life in 1972; Simpson died in 1986 at age 89. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Portrait of Wallis Simpson, 1936
Edward with his father George, grandfather Edward, and great-grandmother Victoria. Edward was born on 23 June 1894 at White Lodge, Richmond Park, on the outskirts of London during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria. [2] He was the eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George V and Queen Mary).
Nearly 80 years after King Edward VIII abdicated the British royal throne to marry American socialite Wallis Simpson, the couple's London love nest is on sale for millions. In 1936, King George V ...