Bessie Wallis Warfield

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In 1908, her mother Alice remarried to John Freeman Rasin, an insurance broker and "son of the Democratic boss of Baltimore", and the family lived in Baltimore, Maryland. More details on the Rasin family can be found [http://books.google.com/books?id=pPZom7xkp3gC&pg=PA764&lpg=PA764&dq=warfield+freeman+rasin&source=web&ots=1LVnI_fJph&sig=l_YblZTwEzmDD4rFnDUQl8J3Q8s#PPA764,M1 here].
 
In 1908, her mother Alice remarried to John Freeman Rasin, an insurance broker and "son of the Democratic boss of Baltimore", and the family lived in Baltimore, Maryland. More details on the Rasin family can be found [http://books.google.com/books?id=pPZom7xkp3gC&pg=PA764&lpg=PA764&dq=warfield+freeman+rasin&source=web&ots=1LVnI_fJph&sig=l_YblZTwEzmDD4rFnDUQl8J3Q8s#PPA764,M1 here].
  
Bessie married Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. on [[Nov 8]], 1916 at Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, [[Maryland]]. They were divorced on [[Dec 10]], 1927. She married secondly Ernest Aldrich Simpson on [[Jul 21]], 1928 in Chelsea Registrar's Office, Chelsea, London, England. They were divorced on [[Oct 27]], 1936. She married thirdly [[Edward VIII, King of England]], son of [[George V, King of England]] and his wife Mary von Teck, on [[Jun 3]], 1937 in Chateau de Cande, Maine-et-Loire, France. Bessie died on [[Apr 24]], 1986 in Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France. She was buried on [[Apr 29]], 1986 in Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire, England.  
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Bessie married Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. on [[Nov 8]], 1916 at Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, [[Maryland]]. They were divorced on [[Dec 10]], 1927. She married secondly Ernest Aldrich Simpson on [[Jul 21]], 1928 in Chelsea Registrar's Office, Chelsea, London, England. They were divorced on [[Oct 27]], 1936 but not before Wallis had begun an affair with [[Edward VIII, King of England|Edward]] who was at that time the heir to the English throne, being the son of [[George V, King of England]] and his wife Mary von Teck.  His father George having died, Edward became King but his desire to marry Wallis was firmly resisted by the government and public.  His famous abdication speech stated that he could not rule without the woman he loved beside him.  They were married on [[Jun 3]], 1937 in Chateau de Cande, Maine-et-Loire, France, and lived thereafter in semi-exile from Britain.  A picture of Edward and Bessie in their later years appears in the 1985 edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Bessie died on [[Apr 24]], 1986 in Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France. She was buried on [[Apr 29]], 1986 in Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire, England.  
  
 
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