Person:Thelma Morgan (1)

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Thelma Morgan, Viscountess Furness
b.23 Aug 1904 Lucerne, Switzerland
d.29 Jan 1970 Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California
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m. 29 Jun 1897
  1. Harry Hays Morgan, Jr.1898 - 1983
  2. Consuelo Morgan1901 - 1979
  3. Gloria Morgan1904 - 1965
  4. Thelma Morgan, Viscountess Furness1904 - 1970
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m. 16 Feb 1922
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m. 27 Jun 1926
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Thelma Morgan, Viscountess Furness
Gender Female
Birth[1] 23 Aug 1904 Lucerne, Switzerland(twin)
Marriage 16 Feb 1922 Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland(his 2nd wife [of 3?], her 1st husband; divorced; no issue)
to James Vail Converse
Divorce 10 Apr 1925 (he was known to be an alcoholic and physically abusive)
from James Vail Converse
Marriage 27 Jun 1926 St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London, England(his 2nd wife [of 3], her 2nd husband; 1 child)
to Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness
Divorce 1933 from Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness
Death[1][2] 29 Jan 1970 Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California
Burial[1] Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California

Mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales, 1928-34. (Her husband, Lord Furness, had several mistresses of his own and didn't seem to mind her affair.) She introduced Edward to her close friend, Mrs. Wallis Simpson, in 1931. She was subsequently involved with Prince Aly Khan.

Consular Registration, 1914 Washington Evening Star, 19 Feb 1922, p. 40 New York Times, 9 Jun 1926 Warren (Pa.) Tribune, 28 Jun 1926, p. 1

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Find A Grave.

    Thelma Viscountess Furness

  2. ↑ Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).
  3.   United States. Passport applications, 1795-1925. (Washington, D.C. : National Archives).

    Name: Morgan, Thelma
    Born: 22 Aug 1905 Lucerne, Switzerland of U.S. citizens
    Permanent residence: New York City
    Occupation: Attending school
    Father, now residing in Hamburg, Germany (American Gonsul General)
    Traveling to Germany to join parents, and to Switzerland ("temporary residence")

    Sworn to 3 Jul 1916 before Consul, Geneva, Switzerland

    Description: 10 yrs 11 mos, 5'1", medium forehead, brown eyes, retorusse nose, medium mouth, round chin, blonde hair, fair-medium complexion, rounded, healthy face.

  4.   The New York Times. (New York, New York)
    p. 45, 30 Jan 1970.

    Lady Furness of Morgan Twins, Society Figures, Is Dead at 65

    Stood by Sister, Elder Gloria Vanderbilt, in Vain Fight to Retain Daughter

    Lady Furness, the former Thelma Morgan and twin of the late Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt, collapsed and died yesterday in Manhattan while on the way to a doctor's office. She was 65 years old and lived in Beverly Hills, Calif.

    Lady Furness and her sister, Gloria, were co-authors of a twin autobiography, "Double Exposure," published in 1958. In telling the story of their lives, they painted vivid portraits of some of their prominent friends.

    Lady Furness told of her romance with the Prince of Wales -- before he had become the Duke of Windsor and met Mrs. Wallis Simpson.

    The prince met Mrs. Simpson while visiting Lady Furness, and Lady Furness wrote in "Double Exposure" that the meeting had been the subject of an enormous amount of fiction.

    Marriage Was Foundering.

    Recounting a well-known story about a tart reply Mrs. Simpson was supposed to have made to what she considerd an unoriginal comment by the Prince, Lady Furness said no such exchange had taken place and that Mrs. Simpson "was as nervous and as impressed as any woman would have been on first meeting the Prince of Wales."

    The Prince's romance with Lady Furness began in London in 1929 at a time when her marriage to Viscount Marmaduke Furness, a shipbuilder, was foundering. The marriage ended in divorce in 1933. An earlier marriage, to James Vail Converse, a broker, had ended in divorce in 1925.

    Born in Lucerne, Switzerland, Lady Furness was a daughter of the late Harry Hays Morgan, long an American consular official, and Mrs. Laura Kilpatrick Morgan. Like her sister, she was educated in French convents.

    The twins made their debut in New York.

    Among the events they described in their autobiography was Gloria's famous court fight, starting in 1934, for custody of her daughter, Gloria, then 10 years old. The United States Supreme Court refused to review a decision of New York courts that the child would have to remain a ward of her aunt, Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and spend most of the time with her.

    During the Supreme Court hearing, the twins' mother, Mrs. Laura Kilpatrick Morgan, testified that her daughter, Mrs. Vanderbilt, was unfit to bring up the child. Lady Furness returned from Europe in order to testify on behalf of her sister.

    Mrs. Vanderbilt's daughter is now married to Wyatt Cooper, a screen and television writer and editor of Status magazine. Her previoius marriages, to Pasquale di Cicco, Leopold Stokowski, the conductor, and Sidney Lumet, the motion-picture director, ended in divorce.

    Lady Furness had been staying with the Coopers at their Mahnattan residence since Christmas.

    Survivors include her son Anthony, the Viscount Furness; a sister, Mrs. Benjamin Thaw, and a brother, Harry Hays Morgan.

    Funeral arrangements were incomplete last night.

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