Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness

Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (actually Thelma Morgan, born August 23, 1904 in Lucerne, Switzerland, † January 29, 1970 in Culver City, California ) was an American high- society lady, actress and mistress of the Prince of Wales and later King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom.

Life

Thelma was the daughter of Harry Hays Morgan and his wife, Laura Delphine Kilpatrick. Her father was a diplomat in Buenos Aires and in Brussels. Her maternal grandparents were the general of the Union Army and U.S. diplomat in Chile, Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, and Luisa Fernandez de Valdivieso. She was a niece of the Archbishop of Santiago de Chile and is a descendant have been out of the house of Navarre. Along with her ​​siblings, twin sister Gloria (1904-1965), Consuelo (1906-1973) and Harry Hays Jr. ( * 1910), she grew up among others in South America and Europe.

On February 16, 1922 Thelma Morgan married in Washington James Vail Converse (* 1894), a grandson of Theodore Newton Vail, president of American Telephone & Telegraph. They were divorced on April 10, 1925 in Los Angeles. The marriage remained childless. After the divorce she went a liaison with the then famous stage star Richard Bennett; Father of Constance, Joan and Barbara, a.

On 27 June 1926 she married in London the English businessman Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness ( 1883-1940 ). The marriage was a son, William Anthony (1929-1995), out. During this second marriage Thelma met the British heir to the throne Edward, named David (1894-1972) know, seemed to be an obsession to her soon whose relationship. Your marriage failed and was divorced in 1933. She was already as the future wife of Edward, to Wallis Simpson (1896-1986) won his favor and he renounced the British throne because of this (1936).

In 1923, the 19 -year-old Thelma Thelma Morgan Pictures, Morgan founded, Inc., where she was producer and actress in a person. She was watching in four films: Aphrodite (1923 ), Enemies of Women (1923 ), Any Woman ( 1925) and So This Is Marriage? ( 1924).

Along with her ​​twin sister Thelma wrote the autobiography Double Exposure. Thelma died on January 29, 1970 in Culver City, California, and was buried beside her sister at the cemetery "Holy Cross Cemetery " in Culver City, California.

Weblink

  • Thelma Morgan at the Internet Movie Database (English)

Comments

  • Mistress
  • Actor
  • Edward VIII
  • Americans
  • Born in 1904
  • Died in 1970
  • Woman
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