Reply #19: Natalie Angier mentioned Wallace Simpson in her book

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"Woman: An Intimate Geography" as far as the assertion about AIS but it is only speculation based on physical characteristics:

"Good skin, great hair, full breasts, tall stature- and a strapping immune system...because testosterone can suppress immune cells. A number of models and actresses have androgen insensitivity syndrome. Wallace Simpson, the spirited divorcee for whom King Edward abdicated his throne, may well have been an AIS woman." p.35.

So any woman who is tall and good looking may be an AIS person. The bare bones of it organ-wise is that the external genitalia is female, but internally, no uterus or fallopian tubes, instead there may be testes. The baby ends up with sort of an XXY chromosome configuration instead of XX or XY.

So Simpson may have had this and may have been sterile, but there is no proof.