Wallis probably first met her future sister-in-law at a skating party in January 1933. The Duchess of York, as the Queen Mother was then known, had been invited with her husband to join the Prince of Wales and Thelma, Viscountess Furness, for ice-skating near Fort Belvedere. Wallis has been the latest new addition to the [read more]
The events leading up to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor leaving to take up a post in the Bahamas have led to much speculation about where their loyalties lay. As the Second World War came to France in May 1940, the Duke and Duchess fled from their home in Paris and arrived at La [read more]
Winifred May Birkin, better known as Freda Dudley Ward, was born on 28 July 1894 as the eldest of the three daughters and one son of Charles Wilfred Birkin and Claire Lloyd Birkin (née Howe). Freda’s first husband was William Dudley Ward, and they married on 9 July 1913. They had two daughters together: Penelope (born [read more]
In 1926, as Wallis waited out her divorce from Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., known as Win, she was invited by her old friend Mary Kirk to spend Christmas with her and her husband Jacques Raffray in New York. She and Mary got on well together and spent many days shopping and sightseeing. It was Mary [read more]
In 1924, Wallis was estranged from her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., known as Win. While they were apart, Wallis had an affair with an Argentine diplomat named Felipe Espil, but this soon ended. Wallis was then asked to accompany her recently widowed cousin Corinne on a trip to Paris, and when they returned [read more]
One of the more persistent stories that have continued to haunt the Duchess of Windsor after her death is that she had affairs following her marriage to the Duke. Perhaps the most famous story is that of Joachim von Ribbentrop, a German diplomat and later Minister for Foreign Affairs. Wallis was introduced to von Ribbentrop [read more]
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