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Before Wallis – Thelma, Viscountess Furness (Part two)

August 24, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. Her marriage with Marmaduke ended in 1933 in divorce on the grounds of adultery – his, not hers. Marmaduke had not wanted to cite a member of the royal family as a correspondent. The divorce did not mean that Thelma intended to marry the Prince; she held no such fantasies. In [read more]

Before Wallis – Thelma, Viscountess Furness (Part one)

August 23, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness, was born on 23 August 1904 as Thelma Morgan, the daughter of Harry Hays Morgan Sr. and Laura Delphine Kilpatrick, in Switzerland. She had a twin sister named Gloria, a sister named Consuelo and a brother named Harry. From her father’s first marriage, she also had two half-sisters. Thelma and her [read more]