![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “It was a leap in the dark as indeed traveling transatlantic always was in those days: If you left your home country, you might not see those people that you loved ever again,” Evans says. Cruise ships were repurposed to bring pregnant war brides pregnant to the U.S. He promptly sailed off with Simpson, abdicating the throne.īut in the new book, “ Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them” author Siân Evans’ includes the women below deck - immigrants coming to find work in the U.S., fleeing Nazi Germany or joining their husbands after World War II. When people think of women on cruise ships in the early 1900s, many probably picture wealthy heiresses with hatboxes.Īmong them were Gloria Vanderbilt and her twin sister, Thelma Furness, the longtime mistress of the Prince of Wales until Furness introduced him to her friend Wallis Simpson. ![]()
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