Bessie Wallis Warfield

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Bessie Wallis Warfield was born on [[June 19]], 1896 in Square Cottage, Monterey Inn, Blue Ridge Summit, [[Pennsylvania]], as the daughter of [[#Teackle Wallis Warfield|Teackle Wallis Warfield]] and [[#Alice M Montague|Alice M. Montague]].  They were at the place due to a futile attempt to cure Teackle's tuberculosis.  He died a few months later.  Alice and Bessie moved in with Teackle's mother in Baltimore but the two woman could not agree and so Alice and Bessie moved again.  "In the end the two women were supported by Teackle's wealthy brother Solomon Warfield." (see Answers.com) "She was christened Bessie but when she grew up, she dropped the Bessie and called herself Wallis" (''The Amiable Baltimorians'')
 
Bessie Wallis Warfield was born on [[June 19]], 1896 in Square Cottage, Monterey Inn, Blue Ridge Summit, [[Pennsylvania]], as the daughter of [[#Teackle Wallis Warfield|Teackle Wallis Warfield]] and [[#Alice M Montague|Alice M. Montague]].  They were at the place due to a futile attempt to cure Teackle's tuberculosis.  He died a few months later.  Alice and Bessie moved in with Teackle's mother in Baltimore but the two woman could not agree and so Alice and Bessie moved again.  "In the end the two women were supported by Teackle's wealthy brother Solomon Warfield." (see Answers.com) "She was christened Bessie but when she grew up, she dropped the Bessie and called herself Wallis" (''The Amiable Baltimorians'')
  
Much has been said about Bessie's supposed background of poverty.  But poverty to those authors evidently means not living in splendor.  The records prove that her family was firmly upper class if perhaps "lower-upper" as they say.
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Much has been said about Bessie's supposed background of poverty.  But poverty to those authors evidently means not living in splendor.  The records prove that her family was firmly upper class if perhaps "lower-upper" as they say.  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].
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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.
  
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 eldest 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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Her and her second husband moved to England where they were divorced on [[Oct 27]], 1936 but not before Wallis had begun an affair with [[Edward VIII, King of England|Prince Edward]] who was at that time the heir to the English throne, being the eldest 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.
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After the abdication, Edward was made Duke of Windsor by his brother the now-King and Bessie was styled Duchess of Windsor but by a new statute created just for her, she was not called "Her Royal Highness".  Edward and Bessie were thought, during WWII to be sympathetic to the Nazi.  They adopted a jet-setting life-style of socialites under Edward died, after which Bessie was rarely seen in public.  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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