Ernest Aldrich Simpson was an American-born British shipbroker, best known as the second husband of Wallis Simpson, later wife of the former King Edward VIII.
12 Facts About Ernest Simpson
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Ernest Simpson became a British subject during World War I, shortly after graduating from Harvard and renouncing his United States citizenship.
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Audrey Ernest Simpson Driggs died at Calgary, Canada on 2 November 2013.
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Ernest Simpson's second wife was Wallis Warfield Spencer, the Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania-born former wife of Earl Winfield Spencer Jr.
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Mary and Ernest Simpson had one child, Ernest Henry Child Simpson, born in 1939, and christened at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London.
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Ernest Simpson changed his name to Aharon Solomons in 1958 before being commissioned as an officer in the Israeli Army.
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Ernest Simpson was the younger daughter of Sir John Ashley Mullens, of Manor House, Haslemere, Surrey, by his wife, the former Evelyne Maude Adamson.
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Avril Ernest Simpson was killed in a car crash in Mexico in 1978.
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Ernest Simpson died suffering from throat cancer, on 30 November 1958 in London, aged 61.
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Ernest Simpson was played by Charles Keating in Edward and Mrs Simpson.
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Ernest Simpson was played by Tom Wilkinson in The Woman Ernest Simpson Loved.
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Ernest Simpson was played by Anthony Smee in Bertie and Elizabeth.