1937: The Duke of Windsor, the abdicated King Edward VIII, married Mrs
Wallis Warfield Simpson in France.
Bob Dylan JUNE 3 1937: The Duke of Windsor, the abdicated King Edward VIII, married Mrs
Wallis Warfield Simpson in France.
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Wallis Warfield Simpson, pictured | 1940: Last British and French troops were evacuated from Dunkirk | 1962: An Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, killing 130 passengers | 1989: Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops opened fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing | 2006: The union of Serbia and Montenegro came to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence | 2016: Sporting icon Muhammad Ali died at the age of 74 | 2017: Eight people were murdered and dozens of civilians wounded in the London Bridge attack by Islamist terrorists.
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Wallis Warfield Simpson was the twice-divorced socialite from Baltimore whose love affair with King Edward VIII triggered a constitutional crisis for the British monarchy in the 1930s.
King Edward VIII abdicated in December 1936 so he could marry his twice-divorced US mistress,
Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1937 THE Duke of Windsor, the abdicated Edward VIII, married American divorcee and socialite Mrs
Wallis Warfield Simpson in the library at the Chateau de Cande, near the French town of Tours.
11, 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorcee
Wallis Warfield Simpson; his brother, Prince Albert, became King George VI.
He had a married American mistress -
Wallis Warfield Simpson - who was in the process of divorcing her second husband.
The king who sacrificed his throne for the love of American divorcee
Wallis Warfield Simpson has touched a chord with millions of romantics and historians since the events of 1937.
Foreign newspapers and magazines coming into the country were unmercifully chopped, every reference to Edward and the "American woman",
Wallis Warfield Simpson, removed.
1986 The American divorcee,
Wallis Warfield Simpson - who sparked the abdication crisis - died.