On the 11th of December 1936, a man spoke on the BBC. Millions of listeners held their breath as he announced his resolve to go forward with a decision which was, and remains, unique in British history: his abdication to the throne. That man was Edward VIII. The reason behind his abdication was his love for a woman that the British Court and the establishment would have never accepted as a Queen: the American, twice divorced, Wallis Simpson.

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Source/Further reading:

https://biography.yourdictionary.com/wallis-simpson
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/there-is-no-happy-ending-wallis-simpson-loved-another-man-during-marriage-to-edward-viii-1.3805295
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/18/wallis-in-love-the-untold-true-passion-of-the-duchess-of-windsor-by-andrew-morton-digested-read
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/18/wallis-in-love-the-untold-true-passion-of-the-duchess-of-windsor-by-andrew-morton-digested-read
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/edward.htm
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/there-is-no-happy-ending-wallis-simpson-loved-another-man-during-marriage-to-edward-viii-1.3805295
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/18/wallis-in-love-the-untold-true-passion-of-the-duchess-of-windsor-by-andrew-morton-digested-read