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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer and then Simpson; June 19, 1896 [a] – April 24, 1986) was an American socialite and wife of former king Edward VIII. Their intention to marry and her status as a divorcée caused a constitutional crisis that led to Edward's abdication. Wallis grew up in Baltimore, Maryland ...
Edward had abdicated as the British monarch in December 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson. The pair became the Duke and Duchess of Windsor following their marriage in 1937. It was the first major television appearance by the couple, though they had briefly appeared on Edward R. Murrow 's television interview show Person to Person in 1956.
In 1940, Edward VIII is restored to the throne with Wallis Simpson as his Queen and signs a treaty which establishes Great Britain as a protectorate of the Greater German Reich. In the Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures novel Players , the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown visit England in 1936 to investigate the interference of the Doctor's time ...
Joan Collins attends the "Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins' Story" U.K. Premiere at The Curzon Mayfair on July 1, 2021 in London, England and The Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, at her greenhouse ...
Joan Collins is to play Wallis Simpson in a biopic about the American socialite whose relationship with the British King led to his abdication.. The 91-year-old actress revealed that the cameras ...
Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, and the former King Edward VIII, who became Duke of Windsor after his 1936 abdication, seen here circa 1965 arriving at Southampton on board the liner United ...
After Simpson married the former King Edward VIII (he abdicated to marry her), the new Duke and Duchess of Windsor lived in exile in France. Wallis died there on April 24, 1986 at age 89, just ...
The first celebrity bibles were based on real-life newspaper tabloid sex scandals such as the Peaches and Daddy Browning case which made headlines in 1926. Ten years later, an entire series of bibles by one unknown artist obscenely lampooned Wallis Simpson and the King of England. By far the most popular celebrity character was Mae West, but ...