article_snippet: Freda Dudley Ward, left, a married socialite and mother-of-two, who had an affair with Edward VIII before Edward VIII married Wallis Simpson, when Edward VIII was known as David, Prince of Wales .
article_snippet: Edward VIII had an affair with mother-of-two Mrs Dudley Ward from 1918 to 1923, years before giving up the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
article_snippet: Their liaison began in 1918 after a chance meeting at a party in an air raid in London and lasted five years.
article_snippet: Then 23, the socialite was a married to Liberal MP William Dudley Ward, who apparently turned a blind eye to an affair with King Edward VIII.
article_snippet: Their affair was well-known to aristocrats and politicians.
article_snippet: a man pictured with Freda Dudley-Ward, and a man husband liberal MP William Dudley-Ward, and right, with Wallis Simpson on Freda Dudley-Ward, and her husband liberal MP William Dudley-Ward wedding day in 1937 .
highlights_snippet: The socialite and married mother-of-two had a five year affair with the royal .
  
highlights_snippet: Their liaison lasted five years before he married divorcee Wallis Simpson .
  