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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
half-plate film negative, 2 March 1950
NPG x29423

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 March 1950
NPG x29424

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 March 1950
NPG x29425

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 March 1950
NPG x29426

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 March 1950
NPG x29427

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 March 1950
NPG x29428

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 March 1950
NPG x29429

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 March 1950
NPG x29430

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 2 March 1950
NPG x29436

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 6 April 1955
NPG x32658

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 6 April 1955
NPG x32659

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 6 April 1955
NPG x32660

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 6 April 1955
NPG x32661

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 6 April 1955
NPG x32662

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 6 April 1955
NPG x32665

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 6 April 1955
NPG x32666

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 6 April 1955
NPG x32667

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Group at Comtesse de Rochambeau's fancy-dress ball

by Francis Goodman
nine 2 1/4 inch square film negatives, 20 June 1964
NPG x195376

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Group at Comtesse de Rochambeau's fancy-dress ball

by Francis Goodman
nine 2 1/4 inch square film negatives, 20 June 1964
NPG x195437

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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.