On This Day: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor Passes Away

Thirty years ago today, the Duchess of Windsor passed away aged 89 at her home in France after years of bad health.

She was buried on April 29 at the Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore at Windsor Castle next to her late husband, the former Edward VIII, after a funeral service at St George’s Chapel that was attended by members of the royal family.

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor in 1975

Wallis, born in 1896 in Pennsylvania, married the recently abdicated King of the United Kingdom in 1937, six months after Edward abdicated the throne after parliamentary refusal to permit his marriage to a twice-divorced woman. They had no children.

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