page_title: Ernest Simpson
section_title: Second marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Ernest Simpson / Second marriage
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Wallis Simpson, 1936
context_page_description: 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.
  Simpson served as an officer in the Coldstream Guards before becoming a shipbroker in the family firm of SSY.
context_section_description: Simpson's second wife was Wallis Warfield Spencer (1896–1986), the Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania-born former wife of Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. and the only child of Teackle Wallis Warfield. They married in London, England, on 21 July 1928, and divorced on 3 May 1937. As his obituary in The New York Times noted, the publicity over his second wife's remarriage to the Duke of Windsor and her subsequent fame thrust him into the role of "the forgotten man". The two remained friends, however, the newspaper noted, with the now Duchess of Windsor sending him flowers when he was in hospital for surgery and Simpson offering advice and clarification when his former wife was working on her memoirs.
caption: Wallis Simpson, later Duchess of Windsor
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