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The Duke married Simpson, who had changed her name by deed poll to Wallis Warfield (her birth surname), in a private ceremony on 3 June 1937, at Château de Candé, near Tours, France. When the Church of England refused to sanction the union, a County Durham clergyman, Robert Anderson Jardine (Vicar of St Paul's, Darlington ), offered to perform the ceremony, and Edward accepted.
Wallis Simpson (born Bessie Wallis Warfield; 19 June 1896 - 24 April 1986), who later became the Duchess of Windsor, caused a serious crisis in the mid-1930s when the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom, Prince Edward, fell in love with her. However, she was married to another man, and she had already gotten a divorce from her first ...
Abdication of Edward VIII. Instrument of abdication signed by Edward VIII and his three brothers, Albert, Henry and George, 10 December 1936. In early December 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was in ...
Jun 16, 2020 · Photo: Getty Images. When King Edward VIII abdicated the British throne in December 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, the pair, now styled the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, began a decades-long semi ...
Jun 2, 2017 · Getty Images. For a love story that changed the British monarchy forever, Edward VIII's wedding to Wallis Simpson was a relatively modest affair. Eighty years ago this Saturday—and just six ...
Oct 26, 2023 · Lost memoir of Edward VIII reveals truth about him and Wallis Simpson. 'On a dank, cold and very foggy night in early January 1931, I first met the Duchess at a mutual friend's house in Melton ...
Feb 9, 2012 · Feb. 9, 2012— -- Wallis Simpson has been demonized for decades as the Baltimore divorcee who scandalized Britain by luring Edward VIII, ... Simpson was born in 1896, has been dead for 26 ...
