Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Sarah Bernhardt, Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, Koo Stark, Lillie Langtry, Dorothea Jordan, Nell Gwyn, English royal mistress, Hortense Mancini, Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness, Lady Randolph Churchill, Maria Fitzherbert, Louise de Kerouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, Mary Robinson, Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey, Grace Elliott, Alice Keppel, Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth, La Belle Otero, Sarah Fairbrother, Freda Dudley Ward, Mary Anne Clarke, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham, Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond, Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney, Moll Davis, Lucy Walter, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk, Susan Pelham-Clinton, Olga Zherebtsova, Hortense Schneider, Anna Maria Crouch, Agnes Keyser, Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, Winifred Wells, Isabella Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford, Arabella Churchill, Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon. Excerpt: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer, then Simpson; 19 June 1896 - 24 April 1986), was an American socialite who married, as her third husband, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and the Dominions, Emperor of India. Wallis's father died shortly after her birth, and she and her widowed mother were partly supported by their wealthier relatives. Her first marriage, to a U.S. naval officer, was punctuated with periods of separation and eventually ended in divorce. In 1934, during her second marriage, she allegedly became the mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales. Two years later, after Edward's accession as King, Wallis divorced her second husband and Edward proposed to her. The King's desire to marry a woman with two living ex-husbands caused a c...