Wallis Simpson
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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, was an American socialite and the wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor. Their intention to marry and her status as a divorcée caused a constitutional crisis that led to E
Simpson, c. 1934
A six-month-old Wallis with her mother, Alice Warfield
Wallis as a ten-year-old schoolgirl
Wallis and her first husband, Earl W. Spencer, 1918
Ernest Simpson
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Ernest Aldrich Simpson was an American-born British shipbroker and former captain in the Coldstream Guards. He was the second husband of Wallis Simpson, who later married the former King Edward VIII f
Wallis Simpson
…States Navy officer Win Spencer, was punctuated by periods of separation and eventually ended in divorce. In 1931, while married to her second husband Ernest Simpson, she met Edward, the heir apparent to the British throne. Five years later, after Edward's accession as King of the United Kingdom, Wallis divorced…
Ernest Simpson in 1937
Mary Kirk Raffray, 1937