The world watched in shock as Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne on 1936. The decision came when it became clear that the combined power of the government, the Church, and the public were ...

July 4, 1937 The Duke of Windsor (the former King Edward VIII) with his wife Wallis, shortly after they married. Vancouver Sun files. There was a civic election in Vancouver on Dec. 9, 1936. Alderman ...

If a history class at school hadn't already covered it, anyone who watched the first season of Netflix's The Crown learned that Queen Elizabeth's father, King George VI, was on the throne at the start ...

After ruling for less than one year, Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne on Dec. 11, 1936.

The royal line of succession in Britain drastically changed direction in 1936 after King Edward VIII abdicated in order to fulfil his wish to marry American Wallis Simpson. After his abdication, King ...

"I have found it impossible to carry on the heavy burden of responsibility... without the help and support of the woman I love," King Edward VIII said in a shock speech that prompted Princess ...

Finally he became King in Jan. 20, 1936, following the death of his father, George V. He was 42. On Dec. 1, 1936, he informed Prime Minister Baldwin that he wished to marry Simpson, whose second ...