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Winifred May Mones, Marquesa de Casa Maury (née Birkin, formerly Dudley Ward; 28 July 1894 – 16 March 1983), commonly known by her first married name as Freda Dudley Ward, was an English socialite. She was best known for being a married paramour of Edward, Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VIII.
Jul 28, 2021 · Freda Dudley Ward was the eldest daughter of a wealthy family and the lover of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, for 15 years. She met him in 1918 during a Zeppelin raid and received hundreds of love letters from him, but he also had other affairs and eventually married Wallis Simpson.
Winifred May Mones, Marquesa de Casa Maury (née Birkin, previously Dudley Ward) (28 July, 1894 – 16 March, 1983), was an English socialite best known for being a mistress of the Prince of Wales. Freda Dudley Ward was the daughter of British Colonel Charles Wilfred Birkin and his American wife...
Jun 8, 2003 · An article on June 8 about letters written in the 1920's by the future Duke of Windsor to a mistress, Freda Dudley Ward, misstated the role played at The Financial Times by Brendan Bracken...
Oct 8, 2021 · A love letter from Edward VIII (centre) to Freda Dudley Ward written years before he abdicated the throne for Wallis Simpson is set to go on sale.
May 11, 2021 · In 1996 a cache of 263 letters, previously thought lost, was discovered - the first of a total of over 2000 written by Edward, then Prince of Wales, during his sixteen-year relationship with Freda Dudley Ward, the estranged wife of a Liberal MP, who came to dominate his life in the years after the Great War.
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Dec 2, 2023 · Freda Dudley Ward was the mistress of the future King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom from 1918 – 1934 while he was Prince of Wales. Born Winifred May Birkin on July 28, 1894, Freda Dudley Ward was the eldest of the four children of Colonel Charles Wilfred Birkin and his American wife Claire Lloyd Howe. Freda’s paternal grandparents were ...
