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828: 404: 1447:'s short story "The Darkness of Wallis Simpson" (2006), which depicts her more sympathetically in her final years of ill health. Hearsay and conjecture have clouded assessment of Wallis's life, not helped by her own manipulation of the truth. But, in the opinion of her biographers, there is no document that proves directly that she was anything other than a victim of her own ambition, who lived out a great romance that became a great tragedy. In the words of one, "she experienced the ultimate fairy tale, becoming the adored favorite of the most glamorous bachelor of his time. The idyll went wrong when, ignoring her pleas, he threw up his position to spend the rest of his life with her." Wallis herself is reported to have summed up her life in a sentence: "You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance." 54: 452: 731: 1400: 1456: 426:), the fifth and youngest son of Henry Mactier Warfield, a prominent merchant, described as "one of the best known and personally one of the most popular citizens of Baltimore", who ran for mayor in 1875. Her mother was Alice Montague, a daughter of stockbroker William Latane Montague. Wallis was named in honor of her father (who was known as Wallis) and her mother's elder sister, Bessie (Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman), and was called Bessie Wallis until, at some time in her youth, the name Bessie was dropped. 4183: 1028: 279: 663: 1167: 919: 697:, he introduced her to his mother; his father was outraged, primarily on account of her marital history, as divorced people were generally excluded from court. Edward showered Wallis with money and jewels, and in February 1935, and again later in the year, he holidayed with her in Europe. His courtiers became increasingly alarmed as the affair began to interfere with his official duties. 1133:'s final place of exile, and sarcastically commenting on the government surveillance. She was heavily criticized in the British press for her extravagant shopping in the United States, undertaken when Britain was enduring privations such as rationing and blackout. She referred to the local population as "lazy, thriving niggers" in letters to her aunt, which reflected her upbringing in 1005:, who wrote that she "never said anything nasty about the Duchess of Windsor, except to say she really hadn't got a clue what she was dealing with." Elizabeth was said to have referred to Wallis as "that woman", while Wallis referred to Queen Elizabeth as "Mrs. Temple" and "Cookie", alluding to her solid figure and fondness for food, and to her daughter Princess Elizabeth (later 487:." Wallis was always immaculately dressed and pushed herself hard to do well. A later biographer wrote of her, "Though Wallis's jaw was too heavy for her to be counted beautiful, her fine violet-blue eyes and petite figure, quick wits, vitality, and capacity for total concentration on her interlocutor ensured that she had many admirers." 840:, who relied on an interview with the stepdaughter-in-law of Herman Rogers conducted 80 years later, Simpson confessed during the writing of her memoirs that Rogers was the love of her life. However, at her instruction, the ghostwriter omitted this revelation from the final memoirs. At her hideaway, Wallis was pressured by 546:, visited San Diego, but he and Wallis did not meet. Later that year, Spencer left his wife for a period of four months, but in the spring of 1921 they were reunited in Washington, D.C., where Spencer had been posted. They soon separated again, and in 1922, when Spencer was posted to the Far East as commander of the 496: 835:
Wallis's relationship with Edward had become public knowledge in the United Kingdom by early December. She decided to flee the country as the scandal broke, and was driven to the south of France in a dramatic race to outrun the press. For the next three months, she was under siege by the media at the
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of December 13, 1966: "In a roundabout way encouraged me to infer that Red Russia was the only enemy and that it was in Britain's interest and in Europe's too, that Germany be encouraged to strike east and smash Communism forever ... I confess frankly that he took me in. ... I thought the rest
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disapproved of, and would not perform, the remarriage of divorced people if their former spouse was still alive. Constitutionally, the King was required to be in communion with the Church of England, but his proposed marriage conflicted with the Church's teachings. Additionally, at the time both the
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In 1901, Wallis's aunt Bessie Merryman was widowed, and the following year Alice and Wallis moved into her four-bedroom house on West Chase Street, Baltimore, where they lived for at least a year until they settled in an apartment, and then a house, of their own. In 1908, Wallis's mother married her
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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
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on November 20, 1895, Wallis's parents were married by C. Ernest Smith at Baltimore's Saint Michael and All Angels' Protestant Episcopal Church on November 19, 1895, which suggests she was conceived out of wedlock. Wallis said that her parents were married in June 1895. Her father died of
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Church and English law only recognized adultery as a legitimate ground for divorce. Since she had divorced her first husband on grounds of "mutual incompatibility", there was a possibility that her second marriage, as well as her prospective marriage to Edward, would be considered
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By the end of 1934, Edward was irretrievably besotted with Wallis, finding her domineering manner and abrasive irreverence toward his position appealing; in the words of his official biographer, he became "slavishly dependent" on her. According to Wallis, it was during a cruise on
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to the British throne. Between 1931 and 1934, he met the Simpsons at various house parties, and Wallis was presented at court. Ernest was beginning to encounter financial difficulties, as the Simpsons were living beyond their means, and they had to fire a succession of staff.
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did not accept Wallis and would not receive her formally, although the former king sometimes met his mother and siblings after his abdication. Some biographers have suggested that Wallis's sister-in-law Queen Elizabeth remained bitter towards her for her role in bringing
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the following year. However, in 1960, career criminal Richard Dunphie confessed to the crime. The stolen pieces were only a small portion of the Windsor jewels, which were either bought privately, inherited by the Duke, or given to Edward when he was Prince of Wales.
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retreat. After the visit, Hitler said of Wallis, "she would have made a good queen". The visit tended to corroborate the strong suspicions of many in government and society that Wallis was a German agent, a claim that she ridiculed in her letters to Edward. US
1013:. Wallis bitterly resented the denial of the royal title and the refusal of Edward's relatives to accept her as part of the family. Within the household of the Duke and Duchess, the style "Her Royal Highness" was used by those who were close to the couple. 419:. A summer resort close to the Maryland–Pennsylvania border, Blue Ridge Summit was popular with Baltimoreans escaping the season's heat, and Monterey Inn, which had a central building, as well as individual wooden cottages, was the town's largest hotel. 583:, denied it. The existence of an official "China dossier" (detailing the supposed sexual and criminal exploits of Wallis in China) is denied by historians and biographers. Wallis spent over a year in China, during which time—according to the socialite 1382:
tried to purchase the jewels for a "rock bottom price". Al-Fayed bought much of the non-financial estate, including the lease of the Paris mansion. An auction of his collection was announced in July 1997 for later that year in New York. Delayed by
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VI. On December 11, Edward said in a radio broadcast, "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do, without the help and support of the woman I love."
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wrote that her suspected anti-British activities were motivated by a desire for revenge against a country that rejected her as its queen. The couple returned to France and retirement after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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VI to the throne (which she may have seen as a factor in his early death) and for prematurely behaving as Edward's consort when she was his mistress. These claims were denied by Elizabeth's close friends, such as the
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client was ready to do anything to ease the situation but the other end of the wicket was determined." This seemingly indicated that Edward had decided he had no option but to abdicate if he wished to marry Wallis.
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auction in Geneva, in April 1987, Wallis's jewelry collection raised $ 45 million for the institute, approximately seven times its pre-sale estimate. Blum later claimed that Egyptian entrepreneur
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medical research foundation, on the instructions of Suzanne Blum. The decision took the royal family and Wallis's friends by surprise, as she had shown little interest in charity during her life.
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The British and Dominion governments believed that a twice-divorced woman was politically, socially, and morally unsuitable as a prospective consort. Wallis was perceived by many in the
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Wallis toured China, and while in Beijing stayed with Katherine and Herman Rogers, who were to remain her longterm friends. According to the wife of one of Win's fellow officers, Mrs.
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in 1972, Wallis lived in seclusion and was rarely seen in public. Her private life has been a source of much speculation, and she remains a controversial figure in British history.
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An only child, Bessie Wallis (sometimes written "Bessiewallis") Warfield was born on June 19, 1896, in Square Cottage at Monterey Inn, a hotel directly across the road from the
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and Diana Mosley. Years later, Diana Mosley said that Wallis and Edward shared her and her husband's views that Hitler should have been given a free hand to destroy Communism.
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said that "facts were remorselessly rearranged in what amounted to a self-performed face-lift". He describes Wallis as "charismatic, electric and compulsively ambitious".
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had been lovers in London. There were even rather improbable reports during the Second World War that she kept a signed photograph of Ribbentrop on her bedside table.
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Villa Lou Viei, near Cannes, the home of her close friends Herman and Katherine Rogers, whom she later thanked effusively in her ghost-written memoirs. According to
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In 1980, Wallis lost her ability to speak. Towards the end of her life, she was bedridden and did not receive any visitors, apart from her doctor and nurses.
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mount in yellow gold set with diamonds, and the sentence "We are ours now" was engraved on it. While the Church of England refused to sanction the wedding,
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Wallis had already filed for divorce from her second husband on the grounds that he had committed adultery with her childhood friend Mary Kirk and the
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fortune, said he had a liaison with her in the 1950s, but Donahue was notorious for his inventive pranks and rumor-mongering. Wallis's memoir
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on November 15, 1896. For her first few years, Wallis and her mother were dependent upon the charity of her father's wealthy bachelor brother
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Blue Ridge Summit referred to as "a fashionable summer resort ... then greatly patronized by Baltimoreans" in Francis F. Bierne (1984),
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The King's desire to marry a woman who had two living ex-husbands threatened to cause a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom and the
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In recognition of the help France gave to the Windsors in providing them with a home, and in lieu of death duties, Wallis's collection of
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On April 17, 1910, Wallis was confirmed at Christ Episcopal Church, Baltimore, and between 1912 and 1914 her uncle paid for her to attend
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Edward sued one author, Geoffrey Dennis, who said that Wallis and Edward were lovers before their marriage, and won (King, p. 119).
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strenuously objected in 1941 when she and her husband planned to tour the Caribbean aboard a yacht belonging to Swedish magnate
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finalized Edward's abdication the following day, or in Ireland's case one day later. The Duke of York then became King George
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that also claimed the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, the sale raised more than ÂŁ14 million for charity in 1998.
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Wallis and Edward married one month later on June 3, 1937, at the Château de CandÊ, lent to them by French millionaire
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VI's firm view that the Duchess should not be given a royal title was shared by his mother, Queen Mary, and his wife,
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by Edward, or by the Windsors themselves as part of an insurance fraud—they made a large deposit of loose stones at
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called Blum a "Satanic figure ... wearing the mantle of good intention to disguise her inner malevolence".
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that France had lost because it was "internally diseased". The couple moved to Portugal in July. They stayed in
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In 1952, the Windsors were offered the use of a house by the Paris municipal authorities. The couple lived at
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V, before her divorce from her second husband, Wallis reportedly said, "Soon I shall be Queen of England ."
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As the German troops advanced into France in 1940, the Windsors fled south from their Paris home, first to
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VIII. The next day, he broke royal protocol by watching the proclamation of his accession from a window of
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II in the 1960s, Wallis and Edward had previously planned for a burial in a purchased cemetery plot at
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Crown, cloak, and dagger: the British monarchy and secret intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II
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meant to marry her. Edward's behaviour and his relationship with Wallis made him unpopular with the
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that Wallis was also having an affair with Guy Marcus Trundle, who was "said to be employed by the
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Letter from Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, May 21, 1937, Royal Archives, QEQM/PRIV/RF, quoted in
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Wallis died on April 24, 1986, at her home in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, at the age of 89 from
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as a woman of "limitless ambition" who was pursuing the King because of his wealth and position.
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Upon Edward's death from throat cancer in 1972, Wallis traveled to the United Kingdom to attend
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Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
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near Windsor Castle, as "Wallis, Duchess of Windsor". Prior to an agreement with Elizabeth
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on December 10, 1936, in the presence of his three surviving brothers, the Dukes of York,
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King, pp. 68–70; Sebba, pp. 62–64; Vickers, pp. 267–269; Duchess of Windsor, pp. 125, 131
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I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales
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King, pp. 62–64; Sebba, pp. 45–53; Vickers, p. 263; Duchess of Windsor, pp. 112–113
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By the time her marriage to Spencer was dissolved, Wallis had become involved with
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In 1965, the Duke and Duchess visited London as Edward required eye surgery for a
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Herman and Katherine Rogers (left) with Wallis and Lord Brownlow in France, 1936
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The Simpsons temporarily set up home in a furnished house with four servants in
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to Wallis Warfield, resuming her maiden name. The couple were reunited at the
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Rasmussen, Frederick (April 29, 1986), "Windsors had a plot at Green Mount",
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King, p. 38; Sebba, pp. 20–21; Vickers, p. 257; Duchess of Windsor, pp. 59–60
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Wallis and Edward lived in France in the pre-war years. In 1937, they made a
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When telling a story of how Wallis complained about blacks being allowed on
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Maher, Catherine (October 31, 1943), "Madame Wellington Koo's Life Story",
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II to commemorate the centenary of Queen Mary's birth. The couple spoke to
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of us could be fence-sitters while the Nazis and the Reds slogged it out."
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According to 1900 census returns, she was born in June 1895, which author
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was granted on October 27, 1936. In November, the King consulted with the
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King, pp. 51–52; Sebba, p. 36; Vickers, p. 260; Duchess of Windsor, p. 85
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in August 1934 that she fell in love with Edward. At an evening party in
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Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold, Story of the Duchess of Windsor
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Carroll, vol. 3, pp. 24–43; King, pp. 14–15; Duchess of Windsor, p. 20
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The Queen's Speech: An Intimate Portrat of the Queen in Her Own Words
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King, pp. 47–52; Vickers, pp. 258, 261; Duchess of Windsor, pp. 79–85
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In August 1940, the Duke and Duchess traveled by commercial liner to
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then to Spain in June. Wallis told United States ambassador to Spain
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The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in conversation with Kenneth Harris
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Duke of Windsor
Duchess of Windsor
more
A photo of Wallis
Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania
Paris
Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore
Berkshire
Earl Winfield Spencer Jr.
Ernest Simpson
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor
House
Windsor
Wallis Simpson's signature
socialite
Edward VIII
constitutional crisis
Edward's abdication
Baltimore
United States Navy
Win Spencer
Ernest Simpson
Prince of Wales
King of the United Kingdom
Dominions
Duke of Windsor
George VI
style
Royal Highness
Second World War

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