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Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor
Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor (Bessie Wallis Windsor, née Warfield; later Spencer and Simpson) June 19 1896 – April 24, 1986) was the wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor. The desire of the Duke, as King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, to marry the then Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée, caused a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom and the British Empire which ultimately led to his abdication in order to marry "the woman I love".
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