Biography of Wallis Warfield aka Simpson Duchess of Windsor 1896-1986
On 19 Jun 1896 Wallis Warfield aka Simpson Duchess of Windsor was born.
In 1905 Peter Kerr Kerr-Smiley (age 25) and [her future sister-in-law] Maud Simpson (age 27) were married.
On 21 Jul 1928 Ernest Aldrich Simpson (age 31) and Wallis Warfield aka Simpson Duchess of Windsor (age 32) were married.
On 10 Jan 1931 Thelma Morgan Viscountess Furness (age 26), at her country house Burrough Court, near Melton Mowbray, introduced the [her future husband] Duke of Windsor (age 36) to Wallis Warfield aka Simpson Duchess of Windsor (age 34). She, Wallis, was visiting Thelma's sister Gloria aka Maria Mercedes Morgan (age 26).
After 1936 [her future husband] King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (age 41) and Wallis Warfield aka Simpson Duchess of Windsor (age 39) stayed at Belton House [Map] after the Abdication Crisis. Peregrine Cust 6th Baron Brownlow (age 36) had been involved in the Abdication Crisis at the King's Lord-in-waiting.
On 20 Jan 1936 George V King United Kingdom (age 70) died. His son [her future husband] King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (age 41) succeeded VIII King of the United Kingdom. Duke York extinct.
On 03 May 1937 Ernest Aldrich Simpson (age 39) and Wallis Warfield aka Simpson Duchess of Windsor (age 40) were divorced.
On 03 Jun 1937 King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (age 42) and Wallis Warfield aka Simpson Duchess of Windsor (age 40) were married at the Château de Candé. No member of his family attended. He the son of George V King United Kingdom and Victoria Mary Teck Queen Consort England (age 70).
1939. Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (age 48). Portrait of Wallis Warfield aka Simpson Duchess of Windsor (age 42). Cost 1,000 guineas (around £39,000 today) with the Duchess sitting for Brockhurst at his New York studio. It depicts the Duchess in a navy blue silk blouse and chiffon skirt by Mainbocher and includes the fabulous Bouquet of Flowers brooch by Van Cleef and Arpels (catalogued by Van Cleef and Arpels as the Hawaii brooch and purchased for Wallis by the Duke in 1938).
In 1941 Hugh Molyneux 7th Earl of Sefton (age 42) and Josephine Gwynne Armstrong Countess Sefton (age 38). Whilst he was a good friend of the [her husband] Duke of Windsor (age 46), his wife was a good friend of the Duke's wife Wallis Warfield aka Simpson Duchess of Windsor (age 44). Josephine Gwynne Armstrong Countess Sefton (age 38) by marriage Countess Sefton.
On 30 Nov 1958 [her former husband] Ernest Aldrich Simpson (age 61) died.
In 1962 [her former sister-in-law] Maud Simpson (age 84) died.
On 28 May 1972 [her husband] King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (age 77) died. He was buried at Royal Burial Ground Frogmore Estate Home Park Windsor.
On 24 Apr 1986 Wallis Warfield aka Simpson Duchess of Windsor (age 89) died.
