Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

Broadcast on 15 September 2007, it was written by Robin Glendinning, with Bill Wallis playing Attlee.

Fuller's ability as a songwriter manifested itself through the intervention of her friend, producer Hal Wallis ; Fuller had wanted to get an acting role in the Elvis Presley movie Blue Hawaii, which Wallis was producing, but instead he put her in touch with Hill & Range, the publisher that provided Presley with songs.

The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Hal Wallis and featured a strong cast, including Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson.

His first three efforts, The Delicate Delinquent ( 1957 ), Rock-A-Bye Baby ( 1958 ) and The Geisha Boy ( 1958 ), were all efforts to move away from Wallis, who Lewis felt was hindering his comedy.

The original band was Jay Kay ( vocals ), Toby Smith ( keyboard ), Stuart Zender ( bass ), Nick Van Gelder ( drums ) and Wallis Buchanan ( didgeridoo ).

Ribbentrop's time in London was also marked by rumors that he was having an affair with Wallis Simpson, British-businessman Ernest Simpson's wife and King Edward VIII's mistress.

Lemmy's connection with Took ( formerly of T. Rex ) was not limited to Wallis, as they were personal friends and Took was the stepfather to Lemmy's son, Paul.

Friedman was initially unable to find academic employment, so during 1935, he followed his friend W. Allen Wallis to Washington, where Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was " a lifesaver " for many young economists.

The King wanted to marry Wallis Simpson, whom Baldwin and other British politicians considered unacceptable as Queen, as she was an American divorcée.

In the late 20th century, student life at UMIST centred on the Barnes Wallis Building, which was the home of the Students ' Union ( later known as the Students ' Association ) and Harry's Bar.

After Hal B. Wallis succeeded Zanuck in 1933 and the Hays Code began to be enforced in 1935, the studio was forced to abandon this realistic approach in order to produce more moralistic, idealized pictures.

His wife Corinne was the first cousin of Alice Warfield, the mother of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor.

The production was directed by Mr. Freedman, and it starred Ivor Emmanuel, Tessie O ' Shea, Shani Wallis, and Laurence Naismith.

It was directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B. Wallis.

* Sir Provo Wallis ( 1791 – 1892 ) was the last Royal Navy officer.

Therefore, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson was known as " Her Grace The Duchess of Windsor ," not " Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Windsor.

Less than a year later, on 11 December 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry his mistress, Wallis Simpson, who was divorced from her first husband and divorcing her second.

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor ( previously Wallis Simpson and Wallis Spencer, born Bessie Wallis Warfield ; 19 June 1896 – 24 April 1986 ), was an American socialite whose third husband, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and the Dominions, abdicated his throne to marry her.

The city was named for an early settler, Rufus Carrol Wallis.

** once Charles de Gaulle named someone else as High Commissioner for the French Territory of the Pacific and the Far East, January 1941 – 1945: Georges Thierry d ' Argenlieu ( b. 1889 – d. 1964 ), while in December 1941 the Vichy ( pro-German ) government named Jean Decoux ( b. 1884 – d. 1963 ) to the post ( who in fact was only responsible for Wallis and Futuna, which was the only Pacific territory not to have rallied to the Free French at that time ).

* A public house named after Sir Barnes Wallis is located in the town of his birth, Ripley, Derbyshire.

* The Student Union Building on the University of Manchester North Campus is named in Wallis's honour ; Wallis was awarded lifetime membership of the Students ' Union in 1967.

* Nottingham Trent University also has a building named after Wallis, on Goldsmith Street.

* Howden School had three " House Groups " named after Barnes Wallis, Dag Hammarskjold and Albert Schweitzer.

At the bottom of Moseley Street adjacent to the Red Lion pub in Ripley Town Centre there is a recreation field named after Sir Barnes Wallis which offers views over to Crich Stand, the Sherwood Foresters Memorial.

James Wallis, a member of that group, founded a magazine named the British Millennial Harbinger in 1837.

* Wallis House in Ottawa is named after him.

* Provo Wallis Street, CFB Halifax is named after him

In recognition of the gift, LACMA named its leadership position the Wallis Annenberg directorship.

The existence of a god named Khem was later understood as a faulty reading, but unfortunately it had already been enshrined in books written by E. A. Wallis Budge — now out of copyright and widely reprinted.

* Hymie Marks, who played the bit part of a gangster named " Joe " in the film, attracted the attention of executive producer Hal B. Wallis, who felt that he didn't look menacing enough – this despite the fact that Marks was a former gangster and henchman of Lucky Luciano, who had been specifically cast by director Lloyd Bacon because of that connection.

The Walser people are named after the Wallis ( Valais ), the uppermost Rhône River valley.

In January 1983, an amateur fossil hunter named William Walker came across an enormous claw sticking out of the side of a clay pit-Smokejacks Pit at Wallis Wood, Ockley near Dorking in Surrey ( United Kingdom ).

In statistics, the Kruskal – Wallis one-way analysis of variance by ranks ( named after William Kruskal and W. Allen Wallis ) is a non-parametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution.

The reserve was named after Alderman Sydney Hollingsworth Simpson, who helped secure the land, however many residents assumed it was named after Wallis Simpson.

In 2001, Daniel began assisting an Australian band named Aneiki, the group consisting of Jennifer Waite and Grant Wallis.

The two ships were parted shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan, Wallis continuing to Tahiti, which he named " King George the Third's Island " in honour of the King ( June 1767 ).

The Polynesian archipelago of Wallis and Futuna ( now a French overseas collectivity ) is named in his honour.

Among these were Robert Boyle, who wrote: " the cornerstones of the Invisible ( or as they term themselves the Philosophical ) College, do now and then honour me with their company ..."; John Wilkins and John Wallis, who described those meetings in the following terms: " About the year 1645, while I lived in London ( at a time when, by our civil wars, academical studies were much interrupted in both our Universities ), ...

* 1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.

Her life changed dramatically in 1936, when her paternal uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated to marry the divorced American Wallis Simpson.

In 1936, her husband unexpectedly became King when his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in order to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson.

Two years later, after Edward's accession as King, Wallis divorced her second husband and Edward proposed to her.

Wallis herself claimed her parents were married in June 1895.

In 1901, Wallis's aunt Bessie Merryman was widowed, and the following year Alice and Wallis moved into her four-bedroom house at 9 West Chase Street, Baltimore, where they lived for at least a year until they settled in an apartment, and then a house, of their own.

On 17 April 1910, Wallis was confirmed at Christ Episcopal Church, Baltimore, and between 1912 and 1914 her uncle Warfield paid for her to attend Oldfields School, the most expensive girls ' school in Maryland.