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Wallis Simpson. Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (* 19. Juni 1896 in Blue Ridge Summit, USA; † 24. April 1986 in Paris; Geburtsname: Bessie Wallis Warfield) war Gattin des vormaligen britischen Königs Eduard VIII. Sie war der formelle Grund für die Abdankung Eduards VIII. im Jahr 1936.
17 de feb. de 2023 · Wallis Simpson, born Bessie Wallis Warfield, grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and both of her parents came from wealthy families who had supported the Confederacy. It was whispered that her father, Teackle Wallis Warfield, and mother, Alice Montague, had conceived Simpson out of wedlock, notes ThoughtCo.
Bessie Wallis Warfield was born at a resort in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, on June 19, 1895, or June 19, 1896, to Teckle Warfield, a bank teller for the Continental Trust, and Alice Montague. There is much controversy about Bessie Wallis's actual birth year, which some say was obscured to protect her parents from the social stigma attached to having a child out of wedlock.
Wife of Duke of Windsor Born Bessie Wallis Warfield in Pennsylvania, she married Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr in 1916. Divorced in 1927, she married Ernest Simpson in 1928. They met Edward, Prince of Wales in London in 1931. When the Prince became king, his insistence on marrying the twice-divorced American precipitated a constitutional crisis that led to his abdication in 1936. He was created ...
21 de feb. de 2019 · Her father, Teackle Wallis Warfield, was the son of a wealthy Baltimore flour merchant, and her mother, Alice Montague, was a stockbroker’s daughter. Although Wallis always claimed her parents married in June 1895, parish records show that they weren’t married until November 1895—meaning that Wallis was conceived out of wedlock , considered a big scandal at the time.
TIME named Wallis Warfield Simpson the first Woman of the Year in 1936 When American socialite Wallis Warfield Simpson captured the heart of Edward, the Prince of Wales, the romance plunged Britain into a constitutional crisis and made Mrs. Simpson "the most-talked-about, written-about, headlined and interest-compelling person in the world," according to the TIME article naming her Woman of ...
21 de feb. de 2019 · Ihr Vater, Teackle Wallis Warfield, war der Sohn eines wohlhabenden Mehlhändlers aus Baltimore, und ihre Mutter, Alice Montague, war die Tochter eines Börsenmaklers. Obwohl Wallis immer behauptete, ihre Eltern hätten im Juni 1895 geheiratet, zeigen Kirchenbücher, dass sie erst im November 1895 verheiratet waren – was bedeutet, dass Wallis unehelich gezeugt wurde, was zu dieser Zeit als ...
