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词条 Freda Dudley Ward
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  1. Biography

     Marriages  Children 

  2. Legacy

  3. Footnotes

  4. Sources

  5. External links

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Winifred May, Marquesa de Casa Maury (née Birkin; 28 July 1894 – 16 March 1983), universally known by her first married name as Freda Dudley Ward, was an English socialite best known for being a married paramour of the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VIII.

Biography

Born Winifred 'Freda' May Birkin, she was the second child and eldest of three daughters of British Colonel Charles Wilfred Birkin (fourth son of a lace embroidery and tableware magnate of Nottingham, Sir Thomas Birkin, 1st Baronet)[1][2] and his American wife, Claire Lloyd Birkin (née Howe).

Freda was the mistress of the Prince of Wales from 1918 to 1934, when he fell in love with Wallis Simpson.[3] The relationship between the Prince of Wales and the married Ward was common knowledge in aristocratic circles.[4] Winston Churchill observed in 1927, after travelling with them on a train, "It is quite pathetic to see the Prince and Freda. His love is so obvious and undisguisable."[5]

Marriages

  • 9 July 1913 to Rt. Hon. William Dudley Ward, Liberal MP for Southampton. They had two daughters. Her first husband's family surname was Ward, but 'Dudley Ward' became their official surname through common usage. Their divorce took place on the ground of adultery in 1931.
  • 20 October 1937 to Pedro Jose Isidro Manuel Ricardo Mones, Marques de Casa Maury. From 1938 the couple took up residence in St Johns Wood, London, at 58 Hamilton Terrace, which they commissioned from the architects Burnet, Tait & Lorne.[6] They divorced in 1954.

Children

  • Penelope Ann Rachel Dudley Ward (1914–1982), the actress Penelope Dudley-Ward, later Lady Reed, known as Pempie,[2] who married firstly in 1939 (divorced 1944) Anthony Pelissier, by whom she had a daughter, and secondly in 1948 film director Sir Carol Reed, by whom she had a son shown below.[7]
    • Tracy Reed (1942–2012, b. Clare Pelissier), actress; first wife of actor Edward Fox, who later played Edward VIII in Edward & Mrs. Simpson in which their affair is depicted; they had one daughter.
    • Max Reed (b. 1948)
  • Claire Angela Louise Dudley Ward (1916–1999), later Lady Laycock, or Angie,[8] who married in 1935 the commando leader Major-General Sir Robert Laycock,[9] by whom she had two sons and three daughters.[10] Of her five children, her son:
    • Joseph William Peter Laycock (Joe Laycock) (1938–1980) was married to actress Lucy Fleming, niece of the writer Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond; and had issue.

Legacy

A portrait of her by the artist John Singer Sargent was discovered on the television series Antiques Roadshow in 2016.[11]

Footnotes

1. ^{{cite news|title=Bygones: The lace dynasty that made Nottingham|url=http://www.nottinghampost.com/Bygones-lace-dynasty-Nottingham/story-12176136-detail/story.html|accessdate=21 September 2015|work=Nottingham Post|date=13 April 2009}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
2. ^1 Anonymous. Obituary for her cousin Bindy Lambton, or the former Countess of Durham, published in The Daily Telegraph on 18 February 2003. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$3VOZHCTQKYG2ZQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F02%2F19%2Fdb1902.xml]
3. ^{{cite news|title=Marquesa, 'First True Love' Of Edward VIII, Is Dead at 88|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/18/obituaries/marquesa-first-true-love-of-edward-viii-is-dead-at-88.html|accessdate=21 September 2015|work=The New York Times|date=18 March 1983}}
4. ^{{cite book|last1=Morton|first1=Andrew|title=17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History|date=2015|publisher=Grand Central Publishing|page=98|edition=ePub}}
5. ^{{cite news|last1=Sebba|first1=Anna|title=17 Carnations by Andrew Morton (Review)|url=http://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/chartwell-bulletin/bulletin-82-apr-2015/winston-the-windsors|accessdate=21 September 2015|work=Chartwell Bulletin|publisher=Winston Churchill Centre}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=226616|title=House for Marques and Marquesa de Casa Maury|publisher=Dictionary of Scottish Architects|accessdate=20 November 2008}}
7. ^{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |date=11 September 2006 |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p992.htm#i9917 |title= Penelope Ann Rachel Ward. |publisher= The Peerage}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=August 2012}}
8. ^Ibid.
9. ^Information on death date from {{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p1285.htm#i12847 |title= The Peerage database |publisher= The Peerage}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=August 2012}}, retrieved 14 December 2007.
10. ^{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p992.htm#i9918 |title= Lady Clare Angela Louise Ward |publisher= The Peerage}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=August 2012}}, mistitled because she was Lady Laycock, but not Lady Clare Angela Louise Ward as daughter of an earl. Last edited 21 January 2006.
11. ^{{cite web|title=A portrait by John Singer Sargent, RAF Coningsby 1, Series 38, Antiques Roadshow - BBC One|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032vhrr|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2 December 2017}}

Sources

  • Burke's Peerage and Baronetage 107th Edition Volume III at Burke's Peerage – Preview Family Record
  • King of Fools by John Parker [https://books.google.com/books?id=cbbNGwAACAAJ&dq=king+of+fools&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=0_1]

External links

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