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...chatty narrative tells of the months during which Mrs. Simpson became the great and good friend of the Prince of Wales, the reader's heart will go out to Mr. Simpson. From the moment of Wallis' fateful speech to the Prince at the Simpsons' flat in Bryanston Court-"Sir, would you care to take pot-luck with us?"-Mr. Simpson recedes into vagueness. The Prince returned for more and more of Wallis' beef stew-she used a recipe from Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. Came the day when she simply could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bessiewallis | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...after her father who died when she was three. She divorced her first husband who is today Commander E. Winfield Spencer Jr., U. S. N. Since 1926, when she married her present husband, Ernest Simpson (Harvard '19), Mrs. Simpson has resided sumptuously in London, lately at No. 5 Bryanston Court, Bryanston Square. Though she was in the U. S. for swank turf events such as the Pimlico in 1934, her Baltimore relatives sniff: "We are completely out of touch." Her late uncle, Solomon Davies Warfield, was for years president of Seaboard Air Line Railway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Jubilee | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

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