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Edward VIII

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67 days ago

n chilly mid-December 1936, King Edward VIII suddenly threw in the towel, tossed away his throne and empire, and abdicated.

78 days ago

It was a last desperate fling before she gave up her life to wed King Edward VIII.

4 months ago

Freshly off the throne and at the tail end of the abdication crisis. King Edward VIII decided to start a brand new controversy when he took an unofficial visit to Nazi Germany in 1937.

‘The Firm’ as a modernising strategy was already falling apart, but with the shocking allegations so fully in the public domain, it has now collapsed

The royal family was always a disaster waiting to …

6 months ago

Documents stored in the National Archives show how Edward VIII got involved in a row over Forest Lodge's name and the level of rent his equerry was asked to pay.

8 months ago

The photographs from the visit and the rumours it generated would forever tarnish the former King's reputation.
Wallis Simpson , the woman who became Duchess of Windsor after King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry her, was born 129 years ago today.
On the first episode of a new 'Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things' podcast series, Robert Hardman and Kate Williams examine the 'objectionable' love lives of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.
Throughout British history, royal weddings have been extravagant affairs full of pomp and grandeur, but there has been one major exception to this tradition.

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