Mrs, Ernest Simpson. who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, nee Miss Wallis Warfeld, was married for the first, time ' on November 8, 1916, the bridegroom being Lieutenant (now Lieut-Commander) Earl Spencer. then instructor at the Pensacola aviation school and now stationed at San Diego, Cal. As Mrs, Spencer, she was well-known in the Par East when ber husband was stationed in Peiping about ten years ago. An uncontested divorce was granted in 1027. Lieut-Commander Spencer remarried and. is again alvoreed.
On July 21, 1928, Mrs. Spencer (as she" then was) married Mr, Ernest Aldrich Simpson, ship broker, son of Mr, and Mrs. Ernest L. Simpson. of 59 West 86th Stree Now York, Mr. Simpson having previously obtained fa divorce from his frst wife, who was Miss Dorothea Dechert. great. granddaughter of a former Chief Tustice of Massachusetts, by whom he had a daughter. On Gctober 27 of this year. Mz, Ernest Simpson was granted a decree. nisi from her husband at Ipswich, England, marry, his wife need not become the een.
These ideas, he declared, were without any constitutional four tion. There was no such thing as 9 mor-fanatic marriage in our law.
"The Royal Marriages Act of 1772,"
proceeded, "has no application to the sovereign himself. Its only. offect is that the marriage of any other member of the Royal family ts null and vold unless the sovereign's consent, declared under a Great Seal, is first' obtained.
"This Act has nothing to do with the present case, The King him-selt requires no consent from any other authority to make his marriage Tegal, but, as I Rave said, the lady where he marries, by the fact of her marriage to the' King, necessarily becomes Queen "She herself, therefore. enjoys all the. status, rights and. privileges which attach to that position, and with which we are familiar ix the cases of Her late Majesty Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary, and her children would be in the direct tine succession to the Throne."
The only possible way In. which this result could be avoided. Mr. Baldwin said, would be by legislation dealing with a particular case. His Majesty's Government was not prepared to Introduce such legislation.
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