Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
(1896-1986), Wife of Duke of WindsorSitter 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.
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1971
NPG P490(89)
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1971
NPG P490(90)
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x20685
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x25934
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x25935
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x25937
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x25938
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1935
NPG x25939
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print, 1935
NPG x35943
by Dorothy Wilding
toned bromide print, 1935
NPG x25936
by Daily Express
modern bromide print from original negative, 8 December 1936
NPG x88269
by Fayer
vintage bromide print, December 1936
NPG x194344
by Fayer
vintage bromide print, December 1936
NPG x194345
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 1936
NPG x198477
by Horst P. Horst
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 15 December 1937
NPG x137774
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)
by ACME Newspictures, Inc.
bromide press print, 7 May 1937
NPG x194338
by Cecil Beaton
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 1937
NPG x197411
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 3 May 1937
NPG x196069
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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.