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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.
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.
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 ...
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1 de abr. de 1991 · WALLIS: THE NOVEL by Anne Edwards was originally published in 1991 (re-released in November of 2015) and is the story of Bessie Wallis Warfield, better known as Wallis Simpson. The book begins with her childhood and takes the reader on an interesting journey until we ultimately see her become Duchess of Windsor.
25 de abr. de 1986 · Bessie Wallis Warfield was born on June 19, 1896, at Monterey Inn, in the resort village of Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. Her parents, Teackle Wallis Warfield and Alice - later spelled Alys -Montagu ...
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 ...
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 ...
