Editing Wallis Simpson (section)

==Relationship with Edward, Prince of Wales==
[[File:Wallis Simpson and Prince 1935.jpg|thumb|left|The Prince of Wales and Wallis in [[Kitzbühel]], Austria, February 1935]]

In January 1934, while Lady Furness was away in New York City, Wallis allegedly became Edward's mistress.<ref>Edward sued one author, Geoffrey Dennis, who said that Wallis and Edward were lovers before their marriage, and won (King, p. 119).</ref> Edward denied this to his father, despite his staff seeing them in bed together as well as "evidence of a physical sexual act".<ref>Diary of [[Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram]] quoted in Bradford, pp. 145–147</ref> Wallis soon ousted Furness, and Edward distanced himself from a former lover and confidante, the Anglo-American textile heiress [[Freda Dudley Ward]].<ref>Sebba, p. 98; Vickers, p. 287; Ziegler, pp. 227–228</ref>

By the end of 1934, Edward was irretrievably besotted with Wallis, finding her domineering manner and abrasive irreverence toward his position appealing; in the words of his official biographer, he became "slavishly dependent" on her.<ref name="dnb" /> According to Wallis, it was during a cruise on [[Lord Moyne]]'s private yacht [[MY Rosaura|''Rosaura'']] in August 1934 that she fell in love with Edward.<ref>King, p. 113; Duchess of Windsor, pp. 195–197, 200</ref> At an evening party in [[Buckingham Palace]], he introduced her to his mother; his father was outraged,<ref>Ziegler, p. 231</ref> primarily on account of her marital history, as divorced people were generally excluded from court.<ref>{{citation |last=Beaverbrook |first=Lord |author-link=Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook |title=The Abdication of King Edward VIII |editor=A. J. P. Taylor |editor-link=A. J. P. Taylor |publisher=Hamish Hamilton |location=London |year=1966 |page=111}}</ref> Edward showered Wallis with money and jewels,<ref>King, pp. 126, 155; Sebba, pp. 103–104; Ziegler, p. 238</ref> and in February 1935, and again later in the year, he holidayed with her in Europe.<ref>King, pp. 117, 134</ref> His courtiers became increasingly alarmed as the affair began to interfere with his official duties.<ref>Bloch, ''The Duchess of Windsor'', pp. 58 and 71</ref>

In 1935, the head of the [[Metropolitan Police Special Branch]] told the [[Metropolitan Police Commissioner]] that Wallis was also having an affair with Guy Marcus Trundle, who was "said to be employed by the [[Ford Motor Company]]".<ref>Report from Superintendent A. Canning to Sir [[Philip Game]], July 3, 1935, [[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|National Archives]], PRO MEPO 10/35, quoted in Williams, p. 75</ref> Rumors of an affair were doubted, however, by Captain Val Bailey, who knew Trundle well and whose mother had an affair with Trundle for nearly two decades,<ref name="fox">{{citation |first=James |last=Fox |title=The Oddest Couple |journal=[[Vanity Fair magazine|Vanity Fair]] |issue=517 |pages=276–291 |date=September 1, 2003 |issn=0733-8899}}</ref> and by [[Susan Williams (historian)|historian Susan Williams]].<ref>Williams, p. 75</ref>