Word: warfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quietly knitting a dark blue sweater for his fiancée-who last week legally changed her name to Wallis Warfield - the Duke of Windsor sat in the Château de Cande last week through the broadcast of his brother's Coronation (see p. 15). Acting as unofficial press representative, the Duke's faithful U. S. friend, Herman Rogers, issued to newshawks genteel snippets of information: legally changing Mrs. Simpson's name had cost $2.50. . . . Mrs. Warfield had put aside Ernest Simpson's engagement ring for a new emerald from the Duke. ... On Coronation night...
...easily for press photographers, one of whom snapped them going into action (see cut). But not forthcoming was the one announcement for which all correspondents were waiting: the date of the wedding. Not for several days was this vital declaration made; then the Duke revealed that he and Mrs. Warfield will be married on June 3. Reason announcement was delayed: a stiff three-cornered fight behind the scenes between the Duke, the British Government and the Royal Family. This time the trouble* was not money. Edward of Windsor was demanding, the Baldwin Government was doing everything in its power...
...Recognition of Mrs. Warfield as a royal duchess, entitled to be called Her Royal Highness and addressed as Madam...
Divorced, Ethel Spencer Moseley. one-time sister-in-law of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson at whose first wedding (1916), to Lieutenant Earl Winfield Spencer, she was a bridesmaid; from George C. Moseley, Chicago broker, Yale's 1916 All-America end; in Geneva, Ill. Grounds: desertion...
Awarded. To Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, 40; a decree absolute of divorce from her second husband, Ernest Aldrich Simpson; in London. In Salzburg, Austria the Duke of Windsor hustled aboard a train to join her at Monts, France...