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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 Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(90)

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1971
NPG P490(90)

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x20685

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x20685

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x25934

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x25934

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x25935

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x25935

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x25937

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x25937

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x25938

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x25938

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x25939

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x25939

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x34892

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
print, 1935
NPG x34892

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x34893

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
print, 1935
NPG x34893

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x35943

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print, 1935
NPG x35943

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Dorothy Wilding - NPG x25936

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Dorothy Wilding
toned bromide print, 1935
NPG x25936

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Fayer - NPG x194344

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Fayer
vintage bromide print, December 1936
NPG x194344

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Fayer - NPG x194345

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Fayer
vintage bromide print, December 1936
NPG x194345

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Unknown photographer - NPG x198477

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 1936
NPG x198477

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Horst P. Horst - NPG x137774

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Horst P. Horst
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 15 December 1937
NPG x137774

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, by Cecil Beaton - NPG x197411

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Cecil Beaton
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 1937
NPG x197411

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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.