Editing Wallis Simpson (section)

==Third marriage: Duchess of Windsor==
{{see also|Wedding of Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson}}
[[File:Candé Castle.jpg|thumb|left|[[Château de Candé]], Monts, France]]
Wallis and Edward married one month later on June 3, 1937, at the Château de Candé, lent to them by French millionaire [[Charles Bedaux]].<ref>Howarth, p. 73; Sebba, pp. 198, 205–209</ref> The date would have been King George V's 72nd birthday; Queen Mary thought the wedding had been scheduled for then as a deliberate slight.<ref>Letter from Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, May 21, 1937, Royal Archives, QEQM/PRIV/RF, quoted in {{citation |last=Shawcross |first=William |author-link=William Shawcross |title=Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother: The Official Biography |publisher=Macmillan |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-4050-4859-0 |page=422}}</ref> No member of Edward's family attended. Wallis wore a "Wallis blue" [[Mainbocher]] [[wedding dress of Wallis Warfield|wedding dress]].<ref>Sebba, p. 207</ref> Edward presented her with an engagement ring that consisted of an [[emerald]] mount in yellow gold set with diamonds, and the sentence "We are ours now" was engraved on it.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.cartier.com/en-us/collections/engagement/features/set-for-you-by-cartier-home/legend/duke-and-duchess-windsor.html |title=Cartier engagement ring for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor |publisher=Cartier |access-date=November 15, 2018}}</ref> While the Church of England refused to sanction the wedding, [[Robert Anderson Jardine]], Vicar of St Paul's, Darlington, offered to perform the service, an offer that was accepted by the couple.<ref name=wed>{{citation |last=Hallemann |first=Caroline |url=http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a9967591/wallis-simpson-prince-edward-wedding/ |title=Inside Wallis Simpson's Wedding to the Duke of Windsor |date=June 2, 2017 |magazine=[[Town & Country (magazine)|Town & Country]] |access-date=November 30, 2017}}</ref> Guests included [[Randolph Churchill]], Baron [[Eugène Daniel von Rothschild]], and the best man, Major [[Fruity Metcalfe]].<ref name=wed/> The marriage produced no children. In November, Ernest Simpson married Mary Kirk.<ref>Sebba, p. 213</ref>

Edward was created [[Duke of Windsor]] by his brother King George{{nbsp}}VI prior to the marriage. However, [[letters patent]], issued by the new king and unanimously supported by the Dominion governments,<ref>Diary of [[Neville Chamberlain]] quoted in Bradford, p. 243</ref> prevented Wallis, now Duchess of Windsor, from sharing her husband's [[Style (manner of address)|style]] of "[[Royal Highness]]". George{{nbsp}}VI's firm view that the Duchess should not be given a royal title was shared by his mother, Queen Mary, and his wife, [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother)]].<ref>{{citation |url=https://nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2003/january30/edward_duke.htm |title=Home Office memo on the Duke and Duchess's title |publisher=National Archives |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20161207010016/https://nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2003/january30/edward_duke.htm |archive-date=December 7, 2016 |access-date=May 2, 2020 }}</ref> At first, the [[British royal family]] did not accept Wallis and would not receive her formally, although the former king sometimes met his mother and siblings after his abdication. Some biographers have suggested that Wallis's sister-in-law Queen Elizabeth remained bitter towards her for her role in bringing George{{nbsp}}VI to the throne (which she may have seen as a factor in his early death)<ref>King, p. 399</ref> and for prematurely behaving as Edward's consort when she was his mistress.<ref>Bradford, p. 172; King, pp. 171–172</ref> These claims were denied by Elizabeth's close friends, such as the [[Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton|Duke of Grafton]], who wrote that she "never said anything nasty about the Duchess of Windsor, except to say she really hadn't got a clue what she was dealing with."<ref>{{citation |last=Hogg |first=James |author2=Mortimer, Michael |title=The Queen Mother Remembered |publisher=BBC Books |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-563-36214-2 |pages=84–85}}</ref> Elizabeth was said to have referred to Wallis as "that woman",<ref>{{citation |first=Jill |last=Lawless |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/17/AR2011031700956_2.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 17, 2011 |title=Move over, Kate: Wallis Simpson back as style icon |access-date=January 3, 2019}}</ref> while Wallis referred to Queen Elizabeth as "Mrs. Temple" and "Cookie", alluding to her solid figure and fondness for food, and to her daughter Princess Elizabeth (later [[Queen Elizabeth&nbsp;II]]) as "Shirley", as in [[Shirley Temple]].<ref>Bloch, ''The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor'', p. 259</ref> Wallis bitterly resented the denial of the royal title and the refusal of Edward's relatives to accept her as part of the family.<ref name="dnb" /><ref>See also, Bloch, ''Wallis and Edward: Letters 1931–1937'', pp. 231, 233 cited in Bradford, p. 232</ref> Within the household of the Duke and Duchess, the style "Her Royal Highness" was used by those who were close to the couple.<ref name="style">Sebba, p. 208</ref>

According to [[Diana Mosley]], who knew both Queen Elizabeth and the Duchess of Windsor but was only friendly with the latter, Elizabeth's antipathy toward Wallis may have resulted from jealousy. Lady Mosley wrote to her sister, the [[Deborah Mitford|Duchess of Devonshire]], after the death of the Duke of Windsor, "probably the theory of their [the Windsors'] contemporaries that Cake [a Mitford nickname for the Queen Mother] was rather in love with him [the Duke] (as a girl) & took second best, may account for much."<ref>Letter from Lady Mosley to the [[Deborah Mitford|Duchess of Devonshire]], June 5, 1972, in Mosley, Charlotte (ed.) (2007). ''The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters''. London: Fourth Estate, p. 582</ref>
[[File:Duke and Duchess of Windsor meet Adolf Hitler 1937.jpg|right|thumb|Wallis and Edward with [[Adolf Hitler]], 1937]]
Wallis and Edward lived in France in the pre-war years. In 1937, they made a [[1937 tour of Germany by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor|high-profile visit to Germany]] and met [[Adolf Hitler]] at the [[Berghof (residence)|Berghof]], his [[Berchtesgaden]] retreat. After the visit, Hitler said of Wallis, "she would have made a good queen".<ref>Memoirs of Hitler's interpreter [[Paul Schmidt (interpreter)|Paul Schmidt]], quoted in King, p. 295</ref> The visit tended to corroborate the strong suspicions of many in government and society that Wallis was a German agent,<ref name="dnb" /> a claim that she ridiculed in her letters to Edward.<ref>Higham, p. 203</ref> US [[FBI]] files compiled in the 1930s also portray her as a possible [[Nazi]] sympathizer. [[Duke Carl Alexander of Württemberg]] told the FBI that Wallis and leading Nazi [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]] had been lovers in London.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4451107,00.html |first=Rob |last=Evans |author2=Hencke, David |title=Wallis Simpson, the Nazi minister, the telltale monk and an FBI plot |journal=The Guardian |date=June 29, 2002 |access-date=May 2, 2010}}</ref> There were even rather improbable reports during the Second World War that she kept a signed photograph of Ribbentrop on her bedside table.<ref>Bloch, ''The Duke of Windsor's War'', p. 355</ref>

Edward wrote in the New York ''[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]'' of December 13, 1966: "In a roundabout way [Hitler] encouraged me to infer that Red Russia was the only enemy and that it was in Britain's interest and in Europe's too, that Germany be encouraged to strike east and smash Communism forever&nbsp;... I confess frankly that he took me in. ... I thought the rest of us could be fence-sitters while the Nazis and the Reds slogged it out."<ref>King, pp. 294–296</ref>