Wallis Simpson aka Duchess of Windsor, American Royalty, Socialites and Fascism (QRSP)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Winfield_Spencer_Jr.

First husband of Wallis Simpson (Duchess of Windsor)

Known as Win, he was born in Kinsley, Kansas, son of Earl Winfield Spencer Sr., a socially prominent Chicago stockbroker, and the former Agnes Lucy Hughes. He attended Racine College in Racine, Wisconsin. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1910 and in 1917 was sent to San Diego with instructions to set up a permanent naval air station, which was to be used for training exercises, and he became its first Commanding Office

He was portrayed by actor Ryan Hayward in W.E., the 2011 British romantic drama film about the love of Wallis and King Edward VIII co-written and directed by Madonna. (The rights were acquired by Optimum Releasing for the UK market, The Weinstein Company for the US release and Village Roadshow for Australia and New Zealand. Weinstein promoted the film as Madonna's first full-length directorial venture...)

Married to Bessie Wallis Warfield

Married to: Mariam J. Maze (1895–1997) the former wife of Albert Cressey Maze (1891–1943).[4][5][6] She was the former Miriam Ham, daughter of George and Katie Anastasia (née Eagels) Ham of Portland, Oregon. They married in September 1928 and were divorced in 1936, the same year Spencer was made a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy by Benito Mussolini. By this marriage he had one stepson, Robert Claude Maze Sr., Major, USMC (killed in action, 1945).  Mariam Spencer married, in 1939, as her third husband, Arthur William Radford, Vice Admiral, USN, future Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Norma Reese Johnson (1891–1944),[11] the widow of Homer Sturtevant Johnson, a Detroit manufacturer who died in 1928, and a daughter of Carl Reese, of Detroit, Michigan. Spencer and Johnson were married in Los Angeles, California, on July 4, 1937. By this marriage he had two stepdaughters: Betty L. Johnson, an actress and songwriter (married Balie Peyton Legare Jr. (1908–1984), a jazz musician, whom she divorced in 1942) and Kathryne Johnson (born circa 1912, married Dell Myron Wade Jr). The Spencers' wedding was a double wedding with Betty and Peyton Legare, whose wedding in February 1942 in Tijuana, Mexico, was not valid under California law and needed to be resolemnized.

Lillian Phillips (1892–1981),[15] daughter of Robert A. and Ella Burgess Phillips, whom he married October 2, 1941.

Wallis Simpson aka Duchess of Windsor

https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/features/revealed-wallis-simpson-s-jewish-secret-1.26582

Wallis met the Prince in Edward in 1931 through her friend Thelma Furness, who happened to be one of Edward's girlfriends at the time.

*see entries re: Anderson Cooper/Vanderbilt, https://voat.co/v/QRSP/2785506

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor - Wallis and Edward - newly married after the abdication, in June 1937. Later that year, the Duke took his bride to meet Hitler. http://archive.is/r00p roussant

Before, during, and after the Second World War, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were suspected by many in government and society of being Nazi sympathisers. In 1937, they visited Germany and met Adolf Hitler. In 1940, the Duke was appointed governor of the Bahamas, and the couple moved to the islands until he relinquished the office in 1945. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Duke and Duchess shuttled between Europe and the United States living a life of leisure as society celebrities. After the Duke's death in 1972, the Duchess lived in seclusion and was rarely seen in public. Her private life has been a source of much speculation, and she remains a controversial figure in British history.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteur_Institute

The Duchess of Windsor died on 24 April 1986 at her home in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, aged 89.[3] Her funeral was held at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, attended by her two surviving sisters-in-law – the Queen Mother and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester – and other members of the royal family.[122] The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Prince and Princess of Wales attended both the funeral ceremony and the burial.[123]

She was buried next to Edward in the Royal Burial Ground near Windsor Castle, as "Wallis, Duchess of Windsor".[123] Until an agreement with Queen Elizabeth II in the 1960s, the Duke and Duchess had previously planned for a burial in a purchased cemetery plot at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, where the Duchess's father was interred.[124]

In recognition of the help France gave to the Duke and Duchess in providing them with a home, and in lieu of death duties, the Duchess's collection of Louis XVI style furniture, some porcelain, and paintings were made over to the French state. The British royal family received no major bequests. Most of her estate went to the Pasteur Institute medical research foundation, on the instructions of [Suzanne Blum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Blum_(lawyer_and_writer). The decision took the royal family and the Duchess's friends by surprise, as she had shown little interest in charity during her life. In a Sotheby's auction in Geneva, in April 1987, the Duchess's remarkable jewellery collection raised $45 million for the Institute, approximately seven times its pre-sale estimate.[127] Blum later claimed that Egyptian entrepreneur Mohamed Al-Fayed tried to purchase the jewels for a "rock bottom price".[128] Al-Fayed bought much of the non-financial estate, including the lease of the Paris mansion. An auction of his collection was announced in July 1997 for later that year in New York.[129] Delayed by his son's death in the car crash that also claimed the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, the sale raised more than £14 million for charity in 1998.[123]

More about Wallis Simpson (Duchess of Windsor)

  • In December 1922 Spencer, separated from his wife (Wallis) and bored with his desk job, was given command of the USS Pampanga, a gunboat that patrolled the war-torn Canton Delta in China.  Wallis stayed in the nation’s capital, had a short-lived affair with an Argentine diplomat, Felipe Espil… link

https://www.loc.gov/item/mm82056200/ Courtney Letts de Espil papers, 1925-1994 

link for Pasteur family info https://gw.geneanet.org/pasteur?lang=en&pz=olivier+paul&nz=pasteur&p=daniel&n=hubbard

Bush family funded Adolf Hitler

kestrel9 ago

Repeated links/meetings in Fascist circles as one reads about Wallis Simpson (Duchess of Windsor), Prince Edward, and Earl Winfield Spencer Jr.

(Wallis Simpson became) in her twenties, an important personality in Washington society. Her main male friend outside her collapsing marriage (Spencer) was the Ambassador in Washington of the new Fascist regime in Italy, Prince Gelasio Caetani, an attractive and powerful propagandist for Mussolini. While still friendly with Caetani, Wallis forged even closer bonds with Felipe Espil, First Secretary at the Argentinian Embassy in Washington, an ardent Fascist and a representative of the savage Irigoyen dictatorship in Buenos Aires. link

Mr Higham, who has certainly done his homework in 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. When she moved to Shanghai, she made another close friend in another dashing young Fascist, Count Galeazzo Ciano, later Mussolini’s Foreign Secretary. Wallis’s enthusiasm for the Italian dictatorship was, by this time, the only thing she had in common with her husband, Winfield Spencer. In 1936, ten years after the couple were divorced, Spencer was awarded the Order of the Crown of Italy, one of the highest decorations of the Mussolini regime.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2706889.stm

Police officers also monitored Mrs Simpson's social circle with startling frankness and questionable language.

One report mentions visitors to a function. They included "Lady Emerald Cunard ... who is reputed to be a drug addict. Sir Oswald Mosley is said to have met POW (Prince of Wales) at the residence of Lady Cunard ... She is the mother of the notorious Nancy Cunard who is very partial to coloured men and who created a sensation some few years ago by taking up residence in the Negro quarter of New York.

Watching: Special Branch tailed Simpson

Emerald Cunard was yet another American, who seemed to pop up everywhere at this time.

She was Wallis Simpson's greatest supporter and snubbed the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Mosley was the head of the British fascists and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's subsequent connections with fascism and Hitler became of great interest to the authorities.