by Anne Sebba
Quaglino’s restaurant, London
Queen Mary, RMS
Rabanne, Paco (fashion designer)
Raffray, Jacques Achille Louis (‘Jackie’)
Raffray, Mary see Simpson, Mary
Ralph, Mrs (cook)
Rasin, John Freeman (Wallis’s stepfather)
Reboux, Caroline (milliner)
Red Cross
Reith, Sir John (later Baron)
Renown, HMS
Rhineland
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Richardson, Joely
Richmond Park: White Lodge
Rickatson-Hatt, Bernard
Rickatson-Hatt, Frances (née Sharpe)
Riggs Bank
Riseborough, Andrea
Ritz Hotel, London
Robinson, Harold Graham Fector
Rogers, Herman: Wallis confides in over marital chastity; gives Wallis away at wedding; marriage to Katherine Bigelow; in Peking; Wallis visits in France; on yachting trips with Wallis; travels to Balmoral with Wallis; praises Wallis; offered money for snapshot of Wallis; hears Edward’s broadcast; Wallis invites to Bahamas
Rogers, Katherine (formerly Bigelow): marriage; in Peking; Wallis visits in France; friendship with Bill Thaw; on yachting trips with Wallis; travels to Balmoral with Wallis; hears Edward’s broadcast; Wallis leaves house in Cannes; introduces Wallis to Bedaux; informs on Bedaux’s wartime collaboration; at Windsors’ wedding; Wallis invites to Bahamas
Romanones, Aline, Countess of
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rosaura (yacht)
Rotch, Josephine
Rothermere, 2nd Viscount see Harmsworth, Esmond
Rothschild, Baron Eugène de
Rothschild, Baroness Katherine de (‘Kitty’)
Rouen: Hôtel de la Poste
Rubinstein, Artur
Runciman, Sir Walter (later Viscount) and Hilda, Lady
Ryton, Royce: Crown Matrimonial (play)
Sackville, Charles John Sackville-West, 4th Baron and Anne, Lady (née Bigelow)
Sadler, Admiral F.H.
Sadler, Mary
St George’s Chapel, Windsor
St James’s Palace, London
St James’s Street, London
St Johns, Adela Rogers
St Paul’s Cathedral, London
Saltwater Sisters
Salzburg
San Diego
San Diego Union (newspaper)
>San Francisco Chronicle
Sandberg, Maxine
Sandringham, Norfolk
Sands, Dottie
Sands, Marianna
Sassoon family
Scanlon, Corinne (née Mustin; Wallis’s mother’s cousin)
Scanlon, Major Martin (‘Mike’)
Schiaparelli, Elsa (fashion house)
Schiller, Morgan and Elizabeth
Schönborn-Buchheim, Count Erwin
Schütz, Johanna
Seattle
Sebastian, Georges
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)
Sefton, Hugh William Osbert Molyneux, 7th Earl of
Sefton, Josephine, Countess of (née Gwynne; ‘Foxy’)
Selby, Dorothy Orme, Lady (née Carter)
Selby, Sir Walford Harmood Montague
Sergeant, Revd Alex
Sergeant, Harriet
Shanghai
Shanghai Race Club
Shaughnessy, Alfred (‘Freddy’)
Shawcross, William
Simon, Sir John
Simpson, Audrey
Simpson, Dorothea Parsons (née Dechert)
Simpson, Ernest Aldrich: Wallis meets; qualities; code of behaviour; Jewishness; service in First World War; marriage to Wallis; interests; and Rickatson-Hatt; at Melton Mowbray; and Wallis’s presentation at Court; holiday in Cannes with Wallis; entertains Edward to dinner; visits to Fort Belvedere; business problems and financial difficulties; Tunis holiday; tours France and Italy; marriage difficulties; and Independence Day dinner for Edward; New Year’s Eve celebrations with Edward (1933 – 4); and Wallis’s relations with Edward; admitted to Masonic Lodge; Edward gives present of cloth to; and Wallis’s stay in Biarritz; presented to King and Queen at Buckingham Palace; and Wallis’s skiing holiday with Edward; hopes of high honours; attempts to bring daughter to England; Wallis’s affection for; and George V’s death; confronts Edward about Wallis; relationship with Mary Raffray; and dinner in Edward’s honour; buys flat for Mary; and divorce from Wallis; cast by press as guilty party; and objection to decree nisi; correspondence with Wallis; marriage to Mary; attempts to visit Baldwin; letter to Edward before abdication; alleged payment for keeping quiet; watches George VI’s coronation; loses possessions in fire; arranges flight for Mary; Churchill respects; marries Avril Leveson-Gower; death
Simpson, Ernest Henry Child (Ernest Aldrich’s son)
Simpson, Ernest Louis (Ernest Aldrich’s father)
Simpson, Mary (née Kirk; later Raffray): background and friendship with Wallis in USA; as Wallis’s bridesmaid; appearance; on Win Spencer’s brutality; letter from Wallis in China; and Wallis’s anger at Uncle Sol’s will; manages boutique; introduces Ernest Simpson to Wallis; meets Wallis on return to USA; Wallis invites to England; in London; injured in accident; on Wallis’s relations with Edward; cares for mother; returns to London from New York; and Ribbentrop’s courting of Wallis; falls for Ernest Simpson; Ernest buys flat for; as supposed co-respondent in divorce (‘Elizabeth Buttercup Kennedy’); marriage to Ernest; Wallis attacks; watches George VI’s coronation; admits to pleasure at Wallis’s humiliations; diary attacks Wallis; on Edward’s broadcast in USA; death
Simpson, Maud see Kerr-Smiley, Maud
Simpson and Spence (later Simpson, Spence and Young)
Simpson, Wallis see Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of
Sinclair, Sir Archibald (later 1st Viscount Thurso)
Sitwell, Sir Osbert: and ‘Rat Week’ poem
em
Smiley, Sir Hugh Houston
Smiley, Sir John
Smiley, Peter
Smith, Dr C. Ernest
Solomon family
Solomon, Leon and Rose
Solomons, Solomon
Sotheby’s (auction house)
South Africa
South Wales
Southern Cross (yacht)
Spanish Civil War
Special Branch (police)
Spencer family
Spencer, Dumaresq
Spencer, Lieut. Commander Earl Winfield, Jr (‘Win’): Wallis falls for; bitter streak; marriage to Wallis; in World War I; ill-treats Wallis; marriage breaks down; assigned to Bureau of Aeronautics, Washington; divorce from Wallis; and Wallis’s return to USA from Japan
Spencer, Earl Winfield, Sr
Spencer, Mrs Earl Winfield (Win’s mother)
Spencer, Ethel
Spencer, Frederick
Spencer, Gladys
Spilman, Hugh Armistead
Spoto, Donald: Dynasty
Spotswood (Philadelphia dentist)
Spry, Constance
Squantum Naval Aviation School, Massachusetts
Stephenson, Francis
Steptoe, Harry
Stillwell, Wellesley H.
Stopes, Marie
Storm in a Teacup (film)
Suchet, Boulevard, Paris
Summerscales, Hannah
Sun Yat-sen
Sunbury on Thames
Sutherland family
Sutherland, Mrs Arthur
Sweden, Crown Prince of see Gustaf
Tabb, Lloyd
Tabb, Prosser
Taylor, Elizabeth
Teck, Francis, Duke and Mary Adelaide, Duchess of
Thaw, Benjamin
Thaw, Bill
Thaw, Consuelo
Thin, Dr Jean
Thomas, Godfrey
Thomas, Hugh Lloyd
Thornton, Michael
Tientsin
Time magazine
Times, The
Timonium, Maryland
Toussaint, Jeanne
Tremain, Rose: Darkness of Wallis Simpson
Trundle, Guy Marcus
Tunis
Tussaud’s, Madame (waxworks), London
Tweed, Lieut. Colonel
United States of America: Windsors visit; enters war
Upper Berkeley Street, London
Utter, John
Van Cleef and Arpels (jewellers)
Vanderbilt, Gloria
Venice
Verdun
Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
Victoria, Queen
Vionnet
Virginia
Vreeland, Diana
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York
Wales Publishing Company
Wallis, Severn Teackle
Warfield family
Warfield, Alice M. (née Montague; later Rasin; then Allen; Wallis’s mother): character; marriage; lives with mother-in-law; enterprise; remarries (Rasin); and Rasin’s death; announces Wallis’s engagement to Spencer; absences during Wallis’s puberty; on Wallis’s inability to have children; and Wallis’s marriage difficulties; Wallis lives with; objects to Wallis’s relations with Espil; third marriage (to Allen); and Uncle n);llisSol’s death; misses Wallis’s marriage to Simpson; decline and death
Warfield, Anna (née Emory; Wallis’s grandmother)
Warfield, Betty (Wallis’s aunt)
Warfield, Henry (Wallis’s cousin)
Warfield, Henry (Wallis’s uncle)
Warfield, Henry Mactier (Wallis’s grandfather)
Warfield, Pagan de
Warfield, Richard Emory (Wallis’s uncle)
Warfield, Solomon Davies (Wallis’s uncle)
Warfield, Teackle Wallis (Wallis’s father)
Warrenton, Virginia
Washington
Washington Herald
Washington Post
Wasserleonburg, Schloss
Weaver, Aubrey
Wenner-Gren, Axel
Wheeler, Sir Peter
Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John
White Heather Club (women’s cricket)
White Sulphur Springs, W. Virginia
Wigram, Clive, 1st Baron: questions Edward’s mental state; confronts Edward over relations with Wallis; on Wallis at Fort Belvedere; on Wallis’s power over Edward; attends film show at Windsor; Lord Davidson consults; dines with Edward; on Ernest’s readiness to admit to collusion in divorce; acts out of sense of duty; and absence of royals at Windsors’ wedding; and denial of HRH title to Wallis
Wiley, John Cooper
Williamson, Philip
Wilson, Edwina H.
Wilson, Sir Horace
Wilson, Woodrow
Wilton Place, London
Windsor: Royal Lodge
Windsor Castle
Windsor, Edward, Duke of (earlier Prince of Wales; then King Edward VIII; ‘David’): refers to Wallis as Mrs Warfield; poker playing; supposed first meeting with Wallis in San Diego; relations with Thelma Furness; birth; character; education; meets Wallis at Melton Mowbray; popularity; with Grenadier Guards; resentment towards parents; eating disorder; fitness regime; and Freda Dudley Ward; and sex; tour of Australia and New Zealand; and mother figures; personality defect; behaviour on foreign tours; and father’s illness; Americanization and modernization; appearance; bored by conventional society; household alienated from father’s Court; sympathy for unemployed; awareness of duty to marry and produce heir; loathing of ceremony; and teddy bears; African safari; home at Fort Belvedere; and Wallis’s presentation at Court; Simpsons entertain to dinner; Simpsons visit at Fort Belvedere; sends radiogram to Wallis; attends Wallis’s Independence Day dinner; birthday celebrations with Wallis; New Year celebrations with Simpsons (1933/4); developing relations with Wallis; and Thelma Furness’s absence in USA ; gives dog to Wallis; and Wallis’s stay at Fort Belvedere for Ascot; gives bolt of cloth to Ernest Simpson; courage; infatuation with Wallis; gives jewellery to Wallis; Austrian skiing holiday with Wallis; berated by Wallis; conversation with father on Wallis; question of pre-marital sex with Wallis; Wallis’s power over; and father’s death; and father’s will; as King Edward VIII; lack of reading and intellectual curiosity; desire to marry Wallis; neglects state papers; Ernest confronts about Wallis; pro-German sentiments; guests at Fort Belvedere; proposes marriage to Wallis; and Rubinstein recital; visit to Yorks; cruise along Dalmatioan coast; and press; popular antipathy to marriage to Wallis; Wallis attempts to leave; coronation preparations; and Wallis’s visit to Balmoral; rents Regent’s Park house for Wallis; takes up residence in Buckingham Palace; Baldwin told of intention to marry Wallis; not named in Simpson divorce; at state opening of Parliament (1936); government concerns about relationship with Wallis; Australia’s view of behaviour; abdication considered; reconhy tsolved to marry Wallis; tour of South Wales; morganatic marriage proposed; efforts to shelter Wallis; concern for Wallis’s security; plea to church people; secret meetings with Baldwin and Dugdale; and Wallis’s leaving Fort Belvedere; considers radio broadcast; prepares for abdication; telephone calls with Wallis; and Wallis’s possible divorce problems; Wallis urges not to abdicate; abdication; fortune before abdication; loneliness; financial settlement; meets family for last time; abdication speech; signs Instrument of Abdication; driven to Portsmouth; given title Duke of Windsor; leaves country; and sense of duty; depicted in fiction; obsession with money; denounced by Archbishop Lang; on embarrassment of return to London; in Austria; psychological state after abdication; letters of advice to George VI; and Wallis’s decree absolute; wedding arrangements; marriage to Wallis; sense of family betrayal; and Wallis’s being denied HRH title; self-abasement; honeymoon; settles in Paris; sources of advice; visit to Nazi Germany; meeting with Hitler; planned trip to North America; Gloucesters visit; personal wealth; dogs; rents villa in Cap d’Antibes; hopes to return to Britain; invited by NBC to make speech on world situation; married life; telegrams to Hitler pleading for peace; visit to England in war; post at British Military Mission in France; requests publicity for Wallis’s war work; flees Paris for Spain; behaviour at beginning of war; German plans to capture; as governor of Bahamas; wartime visits to North America; and need for press secretary; Wallis dominates; and death of Duke of Kent; and murder of Sir Harry Oakes; interview for Liberty magazine; campaign to have Wallis restored to royal rank; correspondence with Churchill; and Wenner-Gren; and FBI; post-war jobs proposed; first post-war trip to England; and Wallis’s resolve to settle in France; attends George VI’s funeral; decides to live in France; portrait; status unchanged on death of George VI, ; writes article for Life magazine; twentieth wedding anniversary; attends mother’s funeral; gardening; and mother’s failure to accept Wallis as daughter-in-law; life in exile; and Donahue; sails on Queen Mary; death and funeral; meets Elizabeth II; will; love letters sold; biography; and lying; A King’s Story
Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of (earlier Simpson; née Warfield): birth and background; name; ambitions; character; appearance; childhood; education; basketball-playing; as horsewoman; boyfriends; and Kirk family; flirtatiousness and sexuality; as debutante; and fashion; in Pensacola; courtship and marriage to Win Spencer; and cooking; as hostess; marriage relations with Win; suspected sexual disorders and syndromes; childlessness; abused by Win; in San Diego; supposed first meeting with Edward; marriage with Win collapses; in Washington; divorce from Win; lives with mother after separation from Win; makes friends in high places; and Felipe Espil; in China (‘Lotus Year’); poses for postcards; and Harold Robinson; poker playing; attempts to learn Chinese; and Da Zara; illnesses and operations; returns to USA; in Virginia; Mediterranean trip; and Uncle Sol’s will; attempts to find work; New York trips; begins relationship with Ernest Simpson; life in London; marriage to Ernest Simpson; and Court Circulars; and mother’s death; determined to meet Edward; and Mary Raffray’s visits to London; jewellery; presented at Court; repartee; Cannes holiday; entertains Edward to dinner; and servants; visits to F
ort Belvedere; Tunis holiday; tours France and Austria; marriage differences with Ernest; trip to USA; Edward gives 37th birthday dinner for; financial difficulties; gives Edward 39th birthday present; Independence Day dinner for Edward; New Year’s Eve celebrations with Edward (1933/4); developing relations with Edward; and Thelma Furness’s absence in USA; dogs; on Biarritz trip with Etz Nedward; Edward’s infatuation with; voyage on Rosaura; Austrian skiing holiday with Edward; allowance from Edward; rebukes Edward; found unacceptable by society; Special Branch report on; question of pre-marital sexual relations with Edward; at Jubilee Ball; affection for Ernest; correspondence with Aunt Bessie; power over Edward; reputation as seductress; sexual experience; personality; and George V’s death; and Edward’s accession; and Lady Cunard; Edward’s desire to marry; loyalty questioned; and von Ribbentrop; at dinner in Edward’s honour; Edward proposes marriage; visit to Yorks; impersonates Duchess of York; petitions Ernest for divorce; holiday with Edward; and the press; attends Ascot; seen as unacceptable as Edward’s wife; attempts to leave Edward; regrets over losing Ernest; visits Balmoral; snubbed by Duchess of York; Edward rents house for; Baldwin told of Edward’s intention to marry; Nancy Dugdale on; and objection to decree nisi; morganatic marriage proposed; fear for security; self-pity; correspondence with Ernest; plans to go away alone; leaves Fort Belvedere; at Cannes villa; suggests Edward make radio broadcast; divorce settlement problems; telephone calls with Edward; offers to withdraw; urges Edward not to abdicate; rumour of pregnancy; Edward sets up trust for; and Edward’s abdication; on being potential queen; view of abdication; financial demands; divorce from Ernest settled; and Brownlow; at Christmas 1936; books on; believes to be target for royal fanatics; considers return to China; dieting; account of emotions; concern that divorce be disallowed; at Château de Candé; decree absolute granted; takes Warfield name again; wedding with Edward; and George VI and Queen Elizabeth; denied title of HRH; hate mail; honeymoon; dental problems; settles in Paris; sources of advice; visits Nazi Germany; meeting with Hitler; plans trip to North America; Gloucesters visit; referred to as HRH; rents villa in Cap d’Antibes; hopes to return to Britain.; married life with Edward; named as one of ten best-dressed women; fear of flying; wartime visit to England; joins Colis de Trianon relief organization; works with Red Cross; flees Paris for Spain; in Bahamas; correspondence with Monckton; adverse propaganda in USA; visits to North America; favours press secretary proposal; on US entering war; Baltimore visit; dominates Edward; founds clinic in Bahamas; and Duke of Kent’s death; and murder of Sir Harry Oakes; snubbed by Canadians; Edward campaigns to have royal rank restored; Queen Elizabeth refers to as ‘that woman’; and FBI; money worries; leaves Bahamas; first post-war trip to England; plans for Edward in France; jewellery stolen; legal opinion on HRH title; attends unveiling of memorial to Queen Mary; health problems; and décor of French house; settles in France; status unchanged after George VI’s death; and Maxine Sandberg; and Monckton; twentieth wedding anniversary; and Aunt Bessie’s death; and Marilyn Monroe headlines; and food; fastidiousness; routine and rules for living; facelift rumours; Edward’s devotion to; wit not appreciated; flirtation with Donahue; pleasure in gay men; on Queen Mary; view of women; and Edward’s death and funeral; meets Elizabeth II, ; stays at Buckingham Palace; decline and death; last visit to England; in widowhood; and alcohol; suffers fall; funeral; jewellery sold; love letters sold; depicted in plays and fiction; effect on others’ lives; The Heart Has its Reasons