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4 days ago · The celebrated fashion designer, who just unveiled his final runway show in Paris, reveals why a portrait by Cecil Beaton means so much to him. By Dries Van Noten. June 24, 2024. I knew from books of this 1936 Cecil Beaton gouache of Wallis Simpson wearing a Schiaparelli, or perhaps Mainbocher, dress and her Cartier brooch, and it was a nice ...
23 hours ago · Wallis Simpson and Camilla Parker Bowles had few differences when it came to be accepted by the British Monarchy. Wallis was judged as a scheming seductress ...
2 days ago · BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 22 March 1983. 49 minutes ago. The journalist who first broke the story about King Edward VIII's affair with Mrs Wallis Simpson in the British press shares his ...
1 day ago · The legend attributes the salad’s debut across the ocean to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson (mistress and ultimately wife of Prince Edward VIII of Wales, former King of England). Mrs. Simpson often visited and partied in the San Diego and Tijuana areas in the 1920s. It is said that Mrs. Simpson met the Prince of Wales there, at the Hotel Del ...
23 hours ago · An auction of items owned by the United Kingdom’s royal family will include such gems as an evening gown worn by Diana, Princess of Wales; a custom fur coat owned by Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor; a Scottish Highland officer’s sword belonging to the Duke of Windsor and already fetching a bid of $15,000; and actual gems: a diamond ...
2 days ago · The auction includes other miscellaneous items from British royalty, such as a cotton nightgown that belonged to Queen Victoria, and a cotton dress that was owned by Wallis Simpson, the American ...
1 day ago · Edward VIII was king for less than a year before abdicating in order to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson.
