Wallis Warfield Simpson

Her painfully shy, stuttering father became George VI only after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated to marry the American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson.

William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

Gillian Anderson's version of the duchess the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, begins as a bewitchment and ends like the strike of a rattlesnake.

Where the Time Goes Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

Her painfully shy, stuttering father became George VI only after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated to marry the American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson.

William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

This is not the era of Wallis Warfield Simpson and the king.

CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2003 2003

Two decades earlier, history had provided a costly object lesson when Margaret's uncle, King Edward VIII, married divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2002 2002

In 1986, the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom England's King Edward VIII gave up his throne, died in Paris at age 89.

Latest News - UPI.com 2010

In 1972, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the English throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, died in Paris at age 77.

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See Lady MacBeth, Nancy Reagan, Hillary Clinton, and Wallis Warfield Simpson.

The Performer Baker, Russell 2002

More mythology lays the salad’s fame on the bony shoulders of Wallis Warfield Simpson, the divorced woman for whom King Edward VIII abdicated his throne.

One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

I and II, the great marriage of Edward the VII or VIII to Wallis Warfield Simpson and the rockets numbered like the Popes have incandesced in flight or broken on the moon: now the new day with its famous beauties to be seized at once has started and the clerks have swept the sidewalks to the curb, the glass doors are open, and the first customers walk up and down the supermarket alleys of their eyes to Muzak.

NPR Topics: News 2011