American socialite Wallis Simpson (nee Bessie Wallis Warfield) (1896 - 1986) a week before King Edward VIII abdicated. She became Duchess of Windsor in June 1937 after her marriage to Edward VIII ...

A pair of private islands on the River Thames, where Prince Edward is said to have met Wallis Simpson for assignations during ...

Mrs. Simpson offers to 'withdraw', 8 December 1936. Article on the front page of the 'Daily Express' about American socialite Wallis Simpson (1896-1986). Mrs.

The Duke of Windsor and Simpson on their wedding day, 3 June 1937, at Chateau de Conde, Monts, near Tours, France (Getty) Later, in the storm of the abdication crisis, Wallis’s China year would ...

Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson married in France in June 1937 with no royal family members present. The couple was married until Edward died from cancer in 1972.

A new biography reveals shocking details about the life of the late socialite. — -- Before Meghan Markle, Wallis Simpson was the first American divorcee to marry into the British royal family ...

But the story of how Wallis Simpson cheated on Britain's king remains – even seventy years on – something few people know about. Edward fled the throne in December 1936.

In history’s memory, Wallis Simpson is seen as the temptress who lured a ruler from his throne. Kate Williams writes that this age-old caricature of the “femme fatale” isn’t accurate ...

Wallis Simpson never became Queen, but the Baltimore-raised society hostess did win the heart of a King. The 1930s love affair between Wallis, the American socialite, and King Edward VIII, ended ...