Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (1896-1986), Wife of Duke of Windsor
Sitter in 186 portraits
Born Elizabeth 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. The couple settled in Paris after the war.
Duchess of Windsor; Edward, Duke of Windsor
by Thomas Patrick John Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield
archival inkjet print, September 1967
NPG x128487
by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
oil on canvas, 1939
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6416
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, June 1943
NPG x25933
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII) (husband)
Mrs Buchanan Merryman (aunt)
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