PRINCE'S PARTNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 99, 29 April 1935, Page 5

PRINCE'S PARTNER.

BALTIMORE BEAUTY.

PRAISED AS SKILLED DANCER.

A BUDAPEST INCIDENT.

(By a .9pecial Correspondent.) BALTIMORE, MD., March 27. Society hero read with interest cabled dispatches from Budapest which described a charming dark-haired American woman who, in "a multi-coloured dinner coat of woven spun glass, a single diamond in her hair," danced with the Prince of Wales during Tils visit to that city.

For the Prince's partner, Mrs. Ernest A. Simpson, is a Baltimore girl who is now a member of that ultra-fashionable international group which may always be seen during the season at one or other of the European resorts society favours. The New York "Social Register" lists her present address as Bryanston Court, Bryanston Square, London. Her latest visit to Baltimore was a year

Mrs. Simpson, acclaimed as one of the beauties of Baltimore, was Miss Wallis Warfield, and she is the daughter of the late Wallis Warfield. The Warfield relationship includes a number of the most distinguished Maryland and Virginia families.

Mrs. Simpson, who has been praised by the Prince of Wales as an exceptionally skilled dancer, made her debut at the Bachelors' Cotillon in Baltimore. She was first married to Winfield Spencer, a naval officer, but that marriage ended in divorce. In 192S she became the wife of Ernest Simpson in London.

Mrs. Simpson has no brothers and sisters. She is related to Henry Warfield of Baltimore, Mrs. Buchanan Merryman of Washington, and Mrs. George Barnett of Washington, widow of a Commandant of the Marine Corps.