Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (June 19 1896–April 24, 1986), formerly Wallis Simpson, was the wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom. The King's desire to marry Wallis, an American and twice divorced, caused a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom, which ultimately led to his abdication.

Historical speculation

FBI files compiled in the 1930s, released under the US Freedom of Information Act in 2003, portray Wallis Simpson as a possible Nazi sympathiser. It has been suggested that this may have been the real motivation for the abdication crisis, although officially released British documents do not appear to confirm this. British documents released on January 30, 2003 also stated that in 1935 Wallis Simpson was being followed by Special Branch detectives and was secretly conducting a love affair with Guy Marcus Trundle, an engineer and salesman for Ford, who was an upper-middle-class Englishman and son of a respected Anglican canon. However, a lengthy September 2003 article in the U.S. magazine Vanity Fair casts considerable doubt on the veracity of the Simpson-Trundle affair, based on comments from a man whose mother was Trundle's mistress for nearly two decades.

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FBI - US Freedom of Information Act - 2003 - Nazi - 1935 - Special Branch - Engineer - Ford - Canon - ''Vanity Fair''

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There have been rumours of pregnancy and abortion, but no hard evidence that the Duchess became pregnant by any of her lovers or her three husbands. The aforementioned Vanity Fair article included the comments of a doctor who, after examining X-rays of the duchess, stated that she likely suffered from androgen insensitivity syndrome, also known as testicular feminisation. Rumors of abnormal genitalia date to a dossier compiled at the start of her relationship with Edward VIII.

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X-rays - Androgen insensitivity syndrome

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