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14 mag 2024 · Simpson died on April 24, 1986, of bronchial pneumonia. She was 89 years old. As The Guardian noted in an obituary, she did not have any close family members by her side in her final years. Wallis Simpson, wife of Edward VIII, faced tragedy as a child.
28 mag 2024 · The duke of Windsor died in Paris on May 28, 1972, and the duchess continued to live at her Paris home in declining health and increasing isolation. At her death in 1986, according to her husband’s request, she was buried beside him in the royal cemetery at Frogmore, near Windsor Castle.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
17 mag 2024 · La scomparsa della Duchessa di Windsor ha lasciato un vuoto nella storia e nella cultura britannica. Wallis Simpson, donna controversa e fuori dagli schemi, ha conquistato il cuore del futuro Re d’Inghilterra, Edoardo VIII, costringendolo ad abdicare al trono per il loro amore.
28 mag 2024 · Chi era Wallis Simpson, la donna americana che fece abdicare Edoardo VIII (Di martedì 28 maggio 2024) Per diversi decenni il nome di Wallis Simpson non è stato nemmeno bisbigliato tra gli ampi...
24 mag 2024 · Edward VIII, prince of Wales (1911–36) and king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and emperor of India from January 20 to December 10, 1936, when he abdicated to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson. Edward VIII was the only British sovereign to voluntarily resign the crown.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
20 mag 2024 · Accused of Fascist sympathies, having Nazi lovers and learning bizarre sexual techniques in China, she was the subject of widespread gossip and fascination that has only increased with the years. In death, the Duchess became a symbol of empowerment and a style icon, a woman whose unequivocal aim was to win in the game of life.
3 giorni fa · Lot 140 details: Alan Fisher’s manuscript notes and typed draft recording his time spent serving the Duke of Windsor [Edward VIII, 1894-1972] and Duchess of Windsor [Wallis Simpson, 1896-1986] together with a colour-printed equestrian portrait of Edward as Prince of Wales [after Sir Alfred J. Munnings, the original of which was in the French villa, and a copy of which sits above the ...
