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There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.
Wallis Simpson
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Wallis Simpson
Age: 89 †
Born: 1896
Born: June 19
Died: 1986
Died: April 24
Collector
Socialite
Blue Ridge Summit
Pennsylvania
Wallis Windsor
Bessie Wallis Warfield
Wallis Warfield
Duchess of Windsor
Wallis Warfield
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Wallis Warfield Spencer
Wallis Simpson
The Duchess of Windsor
Wallis
Duchess of Windsor
Duchess of Windsor
Bessiewallis Warfield
Wallis Spencer
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Marriage
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