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  1. Edward Hugh Simpson CB (10 December 1922 – 5 February 2019) was a British codebreaker, statistician and civil servant. He was best known for having described Simpson's paradox along with Udny Yule.

  2. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer and then Simpson; June 19, 1896 – 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 .

  3. Oct 25, 2019 · Edward Simpson was a code-breaker at Bletchley Park, statistician and public servant. Edward was born on December 10th, 1922, to Captain Hugh and Mary Simpson. His father then worked as an engineer for the Imperial War Graves Commission in Belgium.

  4. Mar 26, 2021 · Edward met Wallis Simpson in January 1931 and the pair married in June 1937. Who was Wallis Simpson? The abdication of King Edward VIII was a crisis for the British Empire that stemmed from his...

  5. Edward & Mrs. Simpson is a seven-part British television series that dramatises the events leading to the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII, who gave up his throne to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson.

  6. Jun 15, 2024 · Wallis Simpson, American socialite who became the wife of Prince Edward, duke of Windsor (Edward VIII), after the latter had abdicated the British throne in 1936 in order to marry her, since—as a woman twice divorced—she was socially and politically unacceptable as a prospective British queen.

  7. Dec 11, 2023 · On 11 December 1936, unable to reconcile his desire for US divorcée Wallis Simpson with his role as King, Edward VIII made the shocking decision to abdicate the throne, bringing an end to a...