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Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. (September 20, 1888 – May 29, 1950) was a U.S. Navy pilot who served as the first commanding officer of Naval Air Station San Diego. He was the first husband of Wallis Simpson, who later married Edward VIII .
Nov 8, 2021 · Learn how Wallis Simpson met and married the aviator Earl Winfield Spencer Jr in 1916, and how their relationship deteriorated due to his drinking and cruelty. Read part one of this two-part article based on Wallis's memoir The Heart Has Its Reasons.
A U.S. Navy pilot and the first husband of Wallis Simpson, future wife of Edward VIII. He was born in Kansas, attended Racine College and died in San Diego in 1950.
When Captain Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. was born on 20 September 1888, in Kinsley, Edwards, Kansas, United States, his father, Earl Winfield Spencer, was 36 and his mother, Agnes Lucy Marian Hughes, was 29. He married Bessie Wallis Warfield on 8 November 1916, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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Explore the family tree of Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., a pioneering U.S. Navy pilot and first husband of Wallis Simpson. See his ancestors, birth and death dates, and geographical origins on a map.
Nov 9, 2021 · The journey seemed to take forever, and Wallis suffered from a terrible cold throughout. It took six weeks for the ship to reach Manila, where Wallis boarded the Empress of Canada for the voyage to Hong Kong, where she arrived on 8 September. She found Win waiting for her at the dock.
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Nov 10, 2021 · Wallis and Ernest Aldrich Simpson had met sometime in 1926 as she waited out her divorce from Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. through friends of hers, Mary (née Kirk) and her husband, Jacques Raffray. Ernest was then still married to Dorothea Webb Dechert, with whom he had a daughter named Audrey (born in 1924).
