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Biography of Wallis Simpson
Name: Wallis Simpson
Birth Date: June 19, 1896
Death Date: April 24, 1986
Place of Birth: Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: socialite, duchess
Wallis Simpson
The romance between Wallis Simpson (1896-1986) and the Duke of Windsor caused one of the biggest scandals in the history of the British monarchy. She was a twice-divorced American, and "David," as she called the man who briefly reigned as King Edward VIII, was forced to abdicate his throne in order to marry her.Simpson was born Bessie-Wallis Warfield on June 19, 1896, in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, a spa town where her parents had gone to help cure her father's tuberculosis. It was a futile attempt, for Teackle Wallis Warfield died just a few months later, leaving Alice Montague Warfield an impoverished widow. Both families hailed from the Old South, but the Montagues of Virginia had lost their fortune after the Civil War. Ironically, Wallis Warfield Simpson's genealogy gave her technically more English blood than members of the British royal family, who later shunned her. Until World War I, the House of …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Buckingham Palace for the funeral. A telephoto lens captured her watching the annual Trooping of the Colors, always held on the queen's birthday, from a window at the palace. She looked utterly bereft.Back in Paris, the duchess rarely entertained after her husband's death. She began to suffer increasing health problems, including coronary artery disease. In the 1980s she lived in near-total seclusion, rarely seen in public. She died at home in Paris on April 24, 1986. The bulk of her estate was left to the Pasteur Institute, a leader in HIV/AIDS research. She is buried alongside the duke in the royal mausoleum at Frogmore. Associated Events Edward VIII Abdication, 1936 Further Reading Birmingham, Stephen, Duchess: The Story of Wallis Warfield Simpson, Little, Brown, 1981.Dictionary of National Biography, 1986-1990, edited by C. S. Nicholls, Oxford University Press, 1996.Garrett, Richard, Mrs. Simpson, St. Martin's Press, 1979.Martin, Ralph, The Woman He Loved, Simon & Schuster, 1973.
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