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20 apr 2024 · Wallis Simpson (born June 19, 1896, Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died April 24, 1986, Paris, France) was an American socialite who became the wife of Prince Edward, duke of Windsor ( Edward VIII ), after the latter had abdicated the British throne in order to marry her. The duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) and duchess of ...
25 apr 1986 · The woman, whose name was never mentioned in the speech, was Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson. After their marriage six months later, she was to be known throughout the world for almost 50 ...
13 nov 2022 · In 1972, as the Duke of Windsor's health continued to worsen, he and the Duchess of Windsor—the woman formerly known as Wallis Simpson, for whom he'd abdicated the throne—were living in their ...
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21 feb 2019 · Wallis Simpson published her memoirs in 1956, reportedly editing and rewriting her own history to portray herself in a more flattering light. Later Life and Death The Duke of Windsor died of cancer in 1972, and Wallis reportedly had a breakdown at his funeral.
9 nov 2023 · At one time, Wallis Simpson was probably the most talked-about woman in the world. And if not the world, her name was on everyone's lips in Britain and America in the 1930s. The long-time mistress of King Edward VIII, she was described by him as ‘the woman I love’ when he declared on BBC radio to the world that he was renouncing his throne ...
29 April. The Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, has been laid to rest alongside her husband, the abdicated King Edward VIII, at Frogmore in Windsor. She was buried in an English oak coffin, marked with a silver plate inscribed simply "Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, 1896-1986". The funeral service, at St George's Chapel, was marked by its simplicity.
25 gen 2022 · But the greatest love crisis in the history of Britain was in 1936 when Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry "the woman [he] love[s]," the twice-divorced Baltimore heiress, Wallis Simpson. Unpopular in Britain and despised by her royal in-laws, Simpson, the first and last Duchess of Windsor, lived lavishly in the Bois de Boulogne outside Paris with her husband.
