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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

(1896-1986), Wife of Duke of Windsor

Sitter in 199 portraits
Born Bessie Wallis Warfield in Pennsylvania, she married Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr in 1916. Divorced in 1927, she married Ernest Simpson in 1928. They met Edward, Prince of Wales in London in 1931. When the Prince became king, his insistence on marrying the twice-divorced American precipitated a constitutional crisis that led to his abdication in 1936. He was created Duke of Windsor and the couple married soon after, settling in Paris after the war.

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x32664

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 6 April 1955
NPG x32664

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x34348

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 7 February 1955
NPG x34348

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x29433

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 7 February 1955
NPG x29433

Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII); Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Cecil Beaton - NPG x26039

Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII); Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, December 1960
NPG x26039

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Francis Goodman - NPG x195061

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 20 June 1964
NPG x195061

Duchess of Windsor; Edward, Duke of Windsor, by Patrick Lichfield - NPG x128487

Duchess of Windsor; Edward, Duke of Windsor

by Patrick Lichfield
archival inkjet print, September 1967
NPG x128487

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Ben Tobias - NPG D18546

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Ben Tobias
oil on canvas on board, 1940s
NPG D18546

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
oil on canvas, 1939
On display in Room 27 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6416

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 1935
NPG x25984

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 1935
NPG x25985

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 1935
NPG x29435

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29400

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29401

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29402

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29403

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29404

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29405

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29406

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29407

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29408

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29409

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29410

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29411

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29412

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29413

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29414

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29415

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 June 1943
NPG x29416

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Kelly

03 February 2017, 01:11

Hello,
Her name is not Elizabeth Wallis Warfield, it is Bessie Wallis Warfield. Named after her aunt Bessie, and not short for Elizabeth.