1937 newspaper w Photo WALLACE WARFIELD SIMPSON engagement ring King Edward VIII

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1937 Baltimore newspaper Wallace Warfield Simpson (the future DUCHESS OF WINDSOR) shows off her Emerald engagement ring
- inv # 1S-201
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Baltimore News-Post
(MD) dated May 21, 1937.
This newspaper contains a large front page photo of
Wallis Warfield Simpson (the future Dutchess of Windsor) "showing off" her new emerald engagement ring
, just given to her by British King Edward VIII (the future Duke of Windsor). Simpson was a Baltimore native, thus this "scoop" on the engagement ring in the Baltimore newspaper (her "hometown" newspaper) !!
I have several May 21, 1937 editions of this Baltimore newspaper with the same date and slightly different headlines but with the same front page photo of Mrs Simpson and her engagement ring.
Nice item for display by a present-day jeweler who sells emerald rings !!
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (previously Wallis Simpson and Wallis Spencer, born Bessie Wallis Warfield; 19 June 1896 – 24 April 1986) was an American
socialite
. Her third husband, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly
King Edward VIII
,
abdicated his throne
to marry her.
Wallis's father died shortly after her birth, and she and her widowed mother were partly supported by their wealthier relatives. Her first marriage, to
U.S. naval
officer
Win Spencer
, was punctuated with periods of separation and eventually ended in divorce. In 1934, during her second marriage to
Ernest Simpson
, she allegedly became the mistress of Edward,
Prince of Wales
. Two years later, after Edward's accession as king, Wallis divorced her second husband in order to marry Edward.
The King's desire to marry a woman who had two living ex-husbands threatened to cause a
constitutional crisis
in the United Kingdom and the Dominions, and ultimately led to his abdication in December 1936 to marry "the woman I love". After the abdication, the former king was created
Duke of Windsor
by his brother and successor,
King George VI
. Edward married Wallis six months later, after which she was formally known as the Duchess of Windsor, without the
style
"Her Royal Highness". She was instead styled as "Her Grace", a style normally reserved only for non-royal dukes and duchesses.
Before, during, and after
World War II
, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were suspected by many in government and society of being
Nazi
sympathisers. In the 1950s and 1960s, she and the Duke shuttled between Europe and the United States, living a life of leisure as society celebrities. After the Duke's death in 1972, the Duchess lived in seclusion, and was rarely seen in public. Her private life has been a source of much speculation, and she remains a controversial figure in British history.
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