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Edward VIII

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Gender Male
Death51 years ago
Date of birth June 23,1894
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born White Lodge
Richmond
United Kingdom
Date of died May 28,1972
DiedVilla Windsor
Paris
France
Spouse Wallis Simpson
BuriedRoyal Burial Ground, Frogmore
Did you knowEdward VIII of the United Kingdom lived to 28,463 days, the fourth-longest among British monarchs.
Height 170 (cm)
Education Magdalen College
Britannia Royal Naval College
BooksLetters from a Prince: Edward, Prince of Wales to Mrs. Freda Dudley Ward, March 1918-January 1921
A Family Album
The Hindu Art of Love
A King's Story: The Memoirs of H. R. H. the Duke of Windsor, K. G.
Involvements and Investments in Education
Recipes to Celebrate: Prince of Wales Collegiate Heralds Newfoundland's 400th Anniversary
Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Autograph Letters in the University Library at the Central Building of the University of London . . . with a Description of the Manuscript Life of Edward, Prince of Wales, the Black Prince, by Chandos the Herald, Placed. . .
Movies/Shows A King's Story
The Power of Right
The Warrior Strain
Seeing the World
Hitler's Britain
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Deposed dateDecember 11, 1936
Full nameEdward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David
Parents George V
Mary of Teck
Knighted date 1922
Siblings George VI
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
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Edward VIII Life story


Edward VIII, 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.

Physical Characteristics

Edward viii was born on june 23.1894 and passed away on may 28.1972.He was a british monarch who reigned from january 20.1936 to december 11.1936.He was the eldest son of king egorge v and queen mary.Eh was 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighed around 180 pounds.He had blue eyes and a slim body tyep.

Family and Relationships

Edward viii had three siblings: prince albert.Prince henry.And pricne george.He had no children.But he was mraried to wallis simpson from 1937 until his death in 1972.His parents were king george v and queen mary.He also had several relatives.Inculding his uncle.King edward vii.

Education and Career

Edward viii was educated at the royal naval college.Osborne.And the royal military college.Sandhurst.He served in the british army during world war i and was made a knight of the garter in 1935.He was the pricne of wales from 1911 until his abdication in 1936.

Life Story

Edward viii was born into the british royal family and was the eldest son of king george v and queen mary.He was educated at the royal navla college.Osborne.And the royal military college.Sandhurst.He served in the british army during world war i and was made a kignht of the garter in 1935.He was the prince of wales from until his abdication in 1936.He was the first british monarch to abdicate the throne.In ordre to marry wallis simpson.An american socialite.After his abdication.He was given the ittle of duke of windsor.He spent the rest of his life in exile.Living in france and the bahamas.

Most Important Event

The most important event in edward viii s life was his abdication of the trhone in 1936.He was the first briitsh monarch to abdicate the throne.In order to marry wallis simpson.An american socialite.After his abdication.He was given the title of duke of windsor.He spent the rest of his life in exile.Living in france and the bahamas.

Other Information

Edward viii s zodiac sign was cancer and his naitonality was british.He was a successful monarch and his abdication of the throne was a major event in british history.

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A popular, playful Prince falls in love with the self-conscious US, a divorced woman, the scorned lands, by a hostile British press. In Harry and Megan, some royal watchers see echoes of Edward Viii and Wallis Simpson , the couple at The Heart of the abdication crisis in eight decades. But not the comparison hold? It could do, if The Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the end of The Duke and Duchess of Windsor's life and tormented exile.

In December 1936, The King gave up his throne and Kingdom than a half a billion souls, so he could marry a woman, the divorce from her second husband.

The Public vitriol to spit on his bride-to-be, Wallis Simpson , could strike a chord with the latest American to marry into The British Royal Family .

On the tip doomed, as the social climber from Baltimore, Maryland, row house, Simpson was reviled as a cheap adventure, a lesbian, a nymphomaniac, a Nazi spy, and a hermaphrodite.

she was depicted as a sexual sorceress, who allegedly learned to "ancient Chinese skills" in the brothels of Shanghai, where they stationed her first husband, a U.S. Navy pilot, had.

But the media attacks on Simpson were not only in print.

Daily Express Reporter, threw stones through The Window of your rented Regent's Park, London, home, the newspaper owner, Lord Beaverbrook, should confirm later.

the abdication crisis became apparent, Simpson to France fled, pursued across the country by the reporters in Cannes.

wich is this "starved besieged army," as you described, in chases, and sometimes by crawling through a bathroom window.

Edward and Wallis became increasingly not so the Constitution, given to bitter seismic

Anne Sebba , author of The Woman The Life of Wallis Simpson , says Harry and Meghan's decision to step back from Royal duties is, by far, legally, that Simpson has been accused of nearly the destruction of The British monarchy and Empire.

Sebba tells the BBC: "We live in the year 1936, when the people were appalled by divorced women.

"you were expecting it to herald would a godless society, where everyone would get a divorce.

"But the really Big Difference is that Edward was King , and Harry is the sixth in line to The Throne , - he will never be King . "

Simpson received sack-loads of hate E-Mails, often misogynist.

she wrote in her memoirs: "There are a few expletives, for my sex that was missing from my morning tray. "

read all about it: the news of the resignation sent shock waves far beyond the UK

But some of The Strongest verbal abuse came from other women.

According to Hugo Vickers ' biography, Behind Closed doors, the Tragic, Untold Story of Wallis Simpson , The Queen once said: "The Two People that caused me The Most problems in My Life are Wallis Simpson and Hitler. "

Continuing the theme, Simpson's childhood friend, Mary Kirk, of The Royal wife cuckolded second husband, Ernest Simpson , wrote in the diary of her former love rival: "I think, as a people, think, Hitler, an evil force... full of animal cunning".

Princess Margaret, according to her uncle, the beloved as "the terrible woman".

The popular tale bears, that Edward was already told by Harry was a wimp, manipulated by an ambitious and demanding lover.

But , despite Simpson ' s as "The Woman who stole The King ", Edward Royal duties and had always found unbearably dull.

How Meghan and Harry , he dreamed of escaping To Live in Canada.

Alan "Tommy" Lascelles, his Private Secretary , said he realized after a long conversation with The Prince in the year 1927, that "words like 'decency', 'honesty', 'duty', 'would', and so on, absolutely nothing meant for Him ".

The Royal consigliere closed, Edward was ruined by an "Archangel".

As Harry and Meghan steer a New Course , you will try without doubt to avoid that, I introduced the type of absichtslosem existence by The Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Apart from Edward times of war spell as Governor of The Bahamas , neither he nor his wife can ever work again.

Olivette Otele, Britain's first black female history professor, points out that, while Meghan is a successful actress, activist and lifestyle blogger, was that Simpson never had a job in your life.

"one was a socialite," says the University of Bristol lecturer "and The Other is an independent, successful woman, earning rely on their own income. "

Prof Otele says: "the covert and open racist attacks" against The Duchess of Sussex, who is of mixed race, are a reason as to why it is "completely nonsensical", to the Parallels between the two.

"Wallis Simpson , she was abused by The British press," says Prof Otele, "But it was never to the same extent as [Meghan]. "

A miniature court, in exile, surrounded by the coat of arms of the kings Edward and Wallis spent the rest of her life sponge off wealthy friends.

As Harry and Megan, Edward and Wallis hobnobbed with Hollywood royalty, hosting Movie Stars such as Richard Burton and Marlene Dietrich in French country.

Edward had little to do, other than play golf. He professes No Regrets about his 11-month reign, although his stories began too often with The Words : "If I was King . "

It's the blame everyone But himself for his abdication of the Prime Minister , Stanley Baldwin , to The Queen -mother.

"Twenty years I worked for My Country , and you kicked me on my ass," the embittered Duke said a friend.

Perhaps The Greatest irony of all, for the so-called fairy-tale romance of The Century is that most of the biographers agree that Edward had set aside his crown thrown for a woman who doesn't love really Him .

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On the Windsor's " long nights, whisky would be served After Dinner , and "she had nothing to say, so that the contents of the carafe, just went slowly down, down, down, down, down," recalls her Private Secretary , John Utter.

According to Andrew Morton , the book of Wallis in love, Simpson ' s heart is actually your friend, Herman Rodgers, a wealthy Yale belonged to graduate.

said The Duchess , from this impressive commitment to Rodgers' second wife on their Wedding Day in 1950.

The Windsors also miffed by their fading glory.

Charles Pick, the publisher of The Duchess ' 1956 memoirs, The Heart Has Its reasons, said that, to complain about when they met for the first time to discuss her book, Simpson rose from a chaise lounge pushed up from the newspaper, the front pages of Marilyn Monroe .

In 1966, The Duke and Duchess took a train to Vienna, Austria, and bitching about the paparazzi, which she expected to find lurking in your goal.

But noticed a help that you could not hide your disappointment, if not a photographer a reality.

As Harry and Meghan embrace a kind of semi-exile, you may do well to note some of the advice from Shakespeare.

In Henry Iv , part I, The King blames his son, Prince Harry , for shirking his duty and suggests that he has "mingled his royalty with cap'ring of fools".

"you has lost thy princely privilege," the monarch berates his heritage. "Not an Eye / But is aweary of thy common sight. "

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