237. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Freda Dudley Ward

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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We continue our journey into the love life of the Prince of Wales this week introducing the lovely, and married, Freda Dudley Ward. This phenomenal woman was romantically involved with David for 15 years, and he sure liked it that way, until he didn’t. This one is quite a journey of a wonderful woman who played her role perfectly, in good times and in bad times too. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Welcome one, welcome all to our continuing series of Wallace, Duchess of Windsor.
0:30.8	Holy Cats, we're back for episode six. Hi, Stacey. Hello. Hey, everybody. This week, kind of exciting. Last week we talked about
0:40.6	Edward's early loves. We heard about the murderess. Oh, sure, yeah. And a few of his other
0:48.4	early girlfriends, this week we're going to take a deeper dive into one of those women. Long relationship,
0:56.9	complicated relationship, David has with one Frida Dudley Ward. And I'm not going to catch
1:04.6	you in a lot of ways. Frieda Dudley Ward was the absolute perfect match for the Prince of Wales.
1:11.1	But there was one reason why she was not the perfect match, and that was because she was already
1:17.2	married.
1:17.8	Oh.
1:19.0	That'll really screw it up.
1:20.7	Yeah.
1:22.0	Now, the fact that Frida Dudley Ward is already married doesn't bother David at all, but there's
1:27.4	no way that his parents or courtiers would have allowed him to marry a divorced woman.
1:34.7	Like unheard of.
1:36.2	Sure, foreshadowing.
1:37.3	Uh-huh.
1:38.0	This doesn't prevent David, future, king, and Frida Dudley Ward from having a very serious relationship that lasts for over a decade.
1:48.6	Wow.
1:49.1	Mm-hmm.
1:50.0	Frida was married, but to be fair, Frida doesn't have a happy marriage.
1:54.3	Her marriage is kind of unhappy when she meets the Prince of Wales in March 1918.
2:00.9	This fateful meeting of Frida and David happens at a party given by Mod Kerr Smiley.
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