Wallis had tried over and over again to remove herself from the situation, to keep the King on the throne, but in the end, the abdication was inevitable. On 10 December 1936, at ten in the morning at Fort Belvedere, in the presence of his brothers, King Edward VIII signed six copies of the Act [read more]
Marguerite was born on 9 December 1890 in Paris into a working-class family; her father Fermin was a driver, and her mother Marie was a housekeeper. Marguerite had a normal upbringing until her younger brother was killed one day while in her care. After being blamed by her parents for this, Marguerite was sent away [read more]
A series of oak armorial panels from a house lived in by Mary, Queen of Scots’s mother Mary of Guise, have been acquired and conserved by National Museums Scotland. The four roundels are said to have come from a house in Blyth’s Close, in Edinburgh’s Old Town, where Mary of Guise lived from around 1543 [read more]
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From the moment of her arrival in Cannes, Wallis did everything she could think of to prevent the King’s abdication. On 6 December, she had written to him, “I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to [read more]
The year 2021 marks 100 years since the death of the last German Empress – Auguste Viktoria. Her husband, German Emperor Wilhelm II, had abdicated in 1918, and they had been living in exile in the Netherlands since then. They had settled in Doorn House in May 1920, and by then, Auguste Viktoria was already [read more]
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