![]() ![]() In 1937, without government approval, they visited Germany and met Adolf Hitler. ![]() Wallis married Edward six months later, after which she was formally known as the Duchess of Windsor, but was not allowed to share her husband's style of " Royal Highness".īefore, during, and after the Second World War, Wallis and Edward were suspected by many in government and society of being Nazi sympathizers. After abdicating, Edward was made Duke of Windsor by his brother and successor, George VI. The King's desire to marry a woman who had two living ex-husbands threatened to cause a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom and the Dominions, ultimately leading to his abdication in December 1936 to marry "the woman I love". Five years later, after Edward's accession as King of the United Kingdom, Wallis divorced Ernest to marry Edward. In 1931, during her second marriage, to Ernest Simpson, she met Edward, the then Prince of Wales. Her first marriage, to United States Navy officer Win Spencer, was punctuated by periods of separation and eventually ended in divorce. Her father died shortly after her birth, and she and her widowed mother were partly supported by their wealthier relatives. ![]() Their intention to marry and her status as a divorcée caused a constitutional crisis that led to Edward's abdication. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Simpson J – April 24, 1986), was an American socialite and wife of the former King Edward VIII. ![]()
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