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When Bessie Wallis Warfield was born on 19 July 1896, in Blue Ridge Summit, Washington Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Teackle Wallis Warfield, was 27 and her mother, Alice Mary Montague, was 26. She married Captain Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. on 8 November 1916, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Ironically, Wallis Warfield Simpson's genealogy gave her technically more English blood than members of the British royal family, who later shunned her. Until World War I, the House of Windsor had actually been called the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a line created by several intermarriages between English and German royal cousins.
Richard Warfield, founder of the Maryland family, settled on the banks of the Severn River in 1662. Later, other Warfields held important government and business positions. Wallis Warfield's mother became a widow twice. After the death of her second husband, she and Wallis lived simply in a three-story brick house at 212 East Biddle Street ...
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, a divorcée. She ...
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 ...
16 de feb. de 2020 · Bessie Wallis Warfield was born in Pennsylvania in 1896, and spent her formative years in Baltimore. In 1916, she married a pilot named Earl Winfield Spencer, a man whose work in the military ...
18 de may. de 2018 · After his abdication, he became Duke of Windsor and married Mrs. Simpson, who had changed her name by deed poll to Wallis Warfield, in a private ceremony on 3 June 1937. (Photo credit should read ...
