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Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.
Charles J.V. Murphy (October 11, 1904 - December 29, 1987) was an American journalist and author. He was the ghostwriter of King Edward VIII’s best-selling autobiography, A King's Story (1951), about the monarch’s decision to abdicate the throne in order to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson.
A King's Story is a 1965 British documentary film directed by Harry Booth about the life of King Edward VIII, from his birth until abdication in 1936. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [1] [2]
Decades before Prince Harry wrote a memoir, the Duke of Windsor published one. Now, a new version of that memoir—complete with his private notes—is set to be published.
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer and then Simpson; June 19, 1896 [a] – April 24, 1986) was an American socialite and wife of former king Edward VIII. Their intention to marry and her status as a divorcée caused a constitutional crisis that led to Edward's abdication .
Instrument of abdication signed by Edward VIII and his three brothers, Albert, Henry and George, 10 December 1936. In early December 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American, who was divorced from her first husband and was in the process of divorcing her second.
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A little backstory: Edward VIII reigned in 1936 for just under a year, before abdicating the throne due to his engagement to Simpson, an American socialite who was in the process of divorcing her ...