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Wallis Simpson - not exactly working class:

 

Her father died when she was an infant. "For her first few years, she was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, in modest, even impoverished, circumstances, dependent upon the charity of her wealthy uncle, Solomon Warfield."

 

However: "Between 1912 and 1914, Solomon Warfield paid for Wallis to attend Oldfields School, the most expensive girl's school in Maryland. There she made friends with heiress Renée du Pont, a daughter of Senator T. Coleman du Pont, of the du Pont family, and Mary Kirk, whose family founded Kirk Silverware"

 

Ironically her first husband's name was Earl Winfield Spencer. :p

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallis_Simpson

 

 

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Since her education was a gift, I'd say she was not an upper class woman, as evidenced by your first sentence.

 

I mean, I went to an expensive school and have some very, very rich friends. However no one would confuse me for anything but working class. Certainly not rich and one to hang out with nobility.

 

Cheers,

SD

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