Wallis Simpson

Wallis Simpson    (socialite, spook?)
King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson on holiday in Yugoslavia, 1936
Born	Bessie Wallis Warfield June 19, 1896 Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania
Died	April 24, 1986 (Age 89) 4 route du Champ d'Entraînement, Paris, France
Spouse	• Earl Winfield Spencer Jr • Ernest Simpson • Duke of Windsor
Married King Edward VIII in 1936. Ties to Italian intelligence.

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Simpson), was an American socialite and wife of the former King Edward VIII. Their intention to marry and her status as a divorcée caused a constitutional crisis that led to Edward's abdication.

Intelligence ties

According to Paul Foot, "the American state files, produces clear evidence that Wallis Spencer, as she then was, was hired as an agent for Naval Intelligence. The purpose of her visit to China in the mid-Twenties, where she accompanied her husband, who also worked for Intelligence, was to carry secret papers between the American Government and the warlords they supported against the Communists. In Peking her consort for a time was Alberto de Zara, Naval Attaché at the Italian Embassy, whose enthusiasm for Mussolini was often expressed in verse. Wallis’s enthusiasm for the Italian dictatorship was, by this time, the only thing she had in common with her husband, Winfield Spencer."

According to Charles Higham, the author of Wallis: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor (1988), while in Shanghai in 1925, she had an affair with the handsome fascist Count Galeazzo Ciano, who was later to become the son-in-law of Benito Mussolini. The affair resulted in a pregnancy, and a carelessly carried out abortion had left Wallis unable to have any more children. Wallis eventually divorced her husband in 1927.

Wallis then met the divorced businessman, Ernest Simpson.He was a partner in a shipping firm that had close business ties with Fascist Italy. The couple married in1928 and moved to London. They became friends with Lady Thelma Furness, a mistress of the Prince of Wales. On the 10th January, 1931, Furness invited them to her country house at Melton Mowbray where they met the heir to the throne. Prince Edward was fascinated by Wallis and it was not long before he was having an affair with her.

Sham marriage

In his memoirs, Hollywood procurer Scotty Bowers tells how he in the late 1940s or early 1950s procured multiple same-sex prostitutes for Edward and Wallis while they were visiting Los Angeles, including Bowers himself also having sex with Edward.

Bowers tells how according to his friend Cecil Beaton, "Edward the duke was a classic example of a bisexual man. He was equally drawn to the delights found in both a heterosexual and a homosexual world. According to him, the whole myth of the great royal romance was a fabrication, a giant cover-up by the royal family and the British government to conceal the truth about Edward's sexual preferences. A king could not possibly get away with living the kind of lifestyle as that favored by Edward. It would have stifled him.

Apparently Wallis Simpson shared similar bisexual urges. Because of that she was the ideal candidate to become Edward's wife. Although she was portrayed as the great love of his life and the person behind his reason for abdicating from the British throne she was in actual fact the perfect partner to share his double life with him. He liked boys. She liked girls. Occasionally they even had sex with each other but, essentially, he was gay and she was a dyke. What better way to save face and ensure that they would have the freedom to live their lives in peace and out of the public spotlight than to marry one another?"

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