151; -- Before Meghan Markle, Wallis Simpson was the first American divorcee to marry into the British royal family. While Simpson has been a figure of intrigue for decades, her recent portrayal ...

Editor’s Note: Kate Williams is Professor of History at Reading University, a CNN royal historian/commentator and author of “Young Elizabeth,” about the Queen. The views expressed here are ...

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 ...

Though her friends and confidantes always insisted that Wallis Simpson - as she later became - never loved the Prince of Wales, he was utterly besotted with her. After being proclaimed King Edward ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...