Today marks 39 years since Wallis Simpson, the woman who became Duchess of Windsor after King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry her, died at the age of 89. She played a notorious role in ...

Cover of "Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson" by Paul French Wallis went to China in 1924 with her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer Jr.; after they ...

But the story of how Wallis Simpson cheated on Britain's king remains – even seventy years on – something few people know about. Edward fled the throne in December 1936. He married double ...

Wallis Simpson lived one of the most colorful lives of the 20th century. A wealthy and wild American (not to mention twice-divorced), Wallis Simpson scandalized the Royal Family by marrying Prince ...

In contrast to most British assessments of Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson, later the Duchess of Windsor, this book is clear-sighted unsentimental about but relatively sympathetic to the woman for ...

Here, Newsweek answers a reader's question as to whether the duke and his polarizing American-born wife, Wallis Simpson, attended coronations after the abdication. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor ...

WALLIS Simpson and Kind Edward VIII's love story is one that went down in British history. The pair felt put their relationship before royal duties and he became the first-ever monarch to abdicate.

King Edward VIII caused a constitutional crisis in 1936 when the newly-crowned monarch made clear his intention to marry Wallis Simpson. But why exactly was Wallis a controversial pick for Edward ...

Pasternak, who wrote the 2019 book The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson, said Edward had “this kind of ferocious, obsessive love for her — he was never going to let her go.” ...

Wallis Simpson. Wallis, an American, was twice divorced when King Edward VIII chose her over the British throne, abdicating on Dec. 11, 1936 and eventually marrying her the next year, on June 3 ...