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In April 1916, Wal­lis met Earl Win­field Spencer Jr., a US Navy avi­a­tor, in Pen­sacola, Florida, while vis­it­ing her cousin Corinne Mustin. It was at this time that Wal­lis wit­nessed two air­plane crashes about two weeks apart, re­sult­ing in a life­long fear of flying. The cou­ple mar­ried on No­vem­ber 8, 1916, at Christ Epis­co­pal Church i...

By the time her mar­riage to Spencer was dis­solved, Wal­lis had be­come in­volved with Ernest Aldrich Simp­son, an An­glo-Amer­i­can ship­ping ex­ec­u­tive and for­mer of­fi­cer in the Cold­stream Guards. He di­vorced his first wife, Dorothea (by whom he had a daugh­ter, Au­drey), to marry Wal­lis on July 21, 1928, at the Reg­is­ter Of­fice in Che...

In Jan­u­ary 1934, while Lady Fur­ness was away in New York City, Wal­lis al­legedly be­came Ed­ward's mistress. Ed­ward de­nied this to his fa­ther, de­spite his staff see­ing them in bed to­gether as well as "ev­i­dence of a phys­i­cal sex­ual act". Wal­lis soon ousted Fur­ness, and Ed­ward dis­tanced him­self from a for­mer lover and con­fi­dant...

On Jan­u­ary 20, 1936, George V died at San­dring­ham and Ed­ward as­cended the throne as Ed­ward VIII. The next day, he broke royal pro­to­col by watch­ing the procla­ma­tion of his ac­ces­sion from a win­dow of St James's Palace, in the com­pany of the still-mar­ried Wallis. It was be­com­ing ap­par­ent to court and gov­ern­ment cir­cles that the...

Wal­lis and Ed­ward mar­ried one month later on June 3, 1937, at the Château de Candé, lent to them by French mil­lion­aire Charles Be­daux. The date would have been King George V's 72nd birth­day; Queen Mary thought the wed­ding had been sched­uled for then as a de­lib­er­ate slight. No mem­ber of Ed­ward's fam­ily at­tended. Wal­lis wore a "Wal­l...

As the Ger­man troops ad­vanced, the Wind­sors fled south from their Paris home, first to Biar­ritz then to Spain in June. Wal­lis told United States am­bas­sador to Spain Alexan­der W. Wed­dell that France had lost be­cause it was "in­ter­nally diseased". The cou­ple moved to Por­tu­gal in July. They stayed in Cas­cais, at Casa de Santa Maria, the...

In 1946, when Wal­lis was stay­ing at Ednam Lodge, the home of the Earl of Dud­ley, some of her jew­els were stolen. There were ru­mors that the theft had been mas­ter­minded by the royal fam­ily as an at­tempt to re­gain jew­els taken from the Royal Col­lec­tion by Ed­ward, or by the Wind­sors them­selves as part of an in­sur­ance fraud—they made ...

Upon Ed­ward's death from throat can­cer in 1972, Wal­lis trav­eled to the United King­dom to at­tend his fu­neral, stay­ing at Buck­ing­ham Palace dur­ing her visit. Wal­lis be­came in­creas­ingly frail and even­tu­ally suc­cumbed to de­men­tia, liv­ing the final years of her life as a recluse, sup­ported by both her hus­band's es­tate and an al­l...

Wal­lis died on April 24, 1986, at her home in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, at the age of 89 from bronchial pneu­mo­nia. Her fu­neral was held on April 29 at St George's Chapel, Wind­sor Cas­tle, at­tended by her two sur­viv­ing sis­ters-in-law – Queen Eliz­a­beth The Queen Mother and Princess Alice, Duchess of Glouces­ter – and other mem­bers of t...