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Article: Hanging on princes' favors. (the private life of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor)
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- December 1, 1986
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Hanging on Princes' Favors
JUST 50 YEARS AGO, the English establishmentwas in the grip of the crisis provoked by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson (nee Warfield), a vivacious divorcee from Baltimore who already had two marriages under her belt. As King, Edward was head of the official Anglican Church, which then frowned on divorce, though not as sternly as Rome (it was, after all, founded by Henry VIII). When Stanley Baldwin, the Conservative Prime Minister of the day, and other political leaders plus a sprinkling of prelates voiced disapproval of Wallis Simpson, Edward argued weakly, then--on December 11, 1936, less than 11 months after becoming ...