June 2025 – Done & Dunne

238. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Thelma Furness

By Unknown author - Life, 29 April 1932, Public Domain, Link

This week, we progress in our journey to the last lover of the Prince of Wales, before Wallis, that is. Thelma Furness enters the picture. Thelma comes with her own…

237: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Freda Dudley Ward

The Prince of Wales with Freda Dudley Ward - opening Union Station. (Toronto, Canada). 6 August 1927, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

We continue our journey into the love life of the Prince of Wales this week introducing the lovely, and married, Freda Dudley Ward. This phenomenal woman was romantically involved with…

236: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Edward’s Early Loves

The future Edward VIII at Waikiki Beach, Honolulu in 1920. Public Domain.

In this week’s exciting episode of our Wallis, Duchess of Windsor series, we change the focus to the Prince of Wales. With a complicated childhood without a whole lot…

235: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Becoming Mrs. Simpson

Wallis Simpson 1915. Public Domain.

Upon her return to the United States, Wallis will finally obtain her divorce from Win Spencer, and soon enough meet her next husband, Ernest Simpson. Slightly problematic, Ernest is…

234. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Her Lotus Year and The China Dossier

Description: Royal houses, the royal family of England. Wallis Simpson, the American woman whom King Edward VIII (1894–1972) married, thereby abdicating the throne. Here is a photo of her from 1909. She is wearing a long lace dress and a large hat. No location given, 1909. Author unknown, via Wikimedia Commons.

Hold onto your conspiracy theories in this one, darlings! Wallis took a lot of heat for the year she spent in the Orient, her Lotus Year. Many folks pinned…

233. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Becoming Mrs. Spencer

Description: Royal houses, the royal family of England. Wallis Simpson as a schoolgirl with long hair and wearing a little hat. She would later marry Edward VIII of England. He thereby chose to abdicate the throne. United States, circa 1904. Author unknown. Via Wikimedia Commons.

In this second installment of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, we visit steamy Pensacola, Florida, and meet Wallis’s first husband, Earl Winfield “Win” Spencer, Jr. This flyboy will woo and…

232. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Baby Bessie and Breaking Baltimore

Description: Royal houses, the royal family of England. Wallis Simpson, the American woman whom King Edward VIII (1894–1972) married, thereby abdicating the throne. Here is a photo of her as a little girl wearing a long dress with puffed sleeves. United States of America, circa 1900. Unknown, via Wikimedia Commons.

Welcome to a whole spider of a series – Wallis, Duchess of Windsor! We know her story, or we think we do. In this first episode, we meet Bessie…

Month: June 2025