Read part one here. When it finally came to planning a wedding, Edward assumed that at least some of his family would attend. A date was arranged by Louis Mountbatten, who later wrote, “I succeeded in fixing a date for your wedding that suited Bertie, George, etc.” But then “other people stepped in.” In the [read more]
Besides her future husband, it was probably Prince George, Duke of Kent and later also his wife Princess Marina, who had the most contact with Wallis, as members of the royal family. Prince George was King George V’s fourth son, and he first met Wallis in 1931 at the same time his brother did – [read more]
On 12 December 1936, the former King Edward VIII was on his way to his place of exile – Schloss Enzesfeld in Austria. There was technically no requirement for them to stay apart while Wallis’s divorce was not yet final, but they wanted to avoid having the decree contested at all cost. Unfortunately, this meant [read more]
Upon King Edward VIII’s abdication, he immediately became a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with the qualification of Royal Highness. On 5 February 1864, Queen Victoria had issued Letters Patent saying, “that besides the Children of Sovereigns of these Realms, the Children of the Sons of any Sovereign of Great [read more]
On the evening of 11 December, there was one final family dinner at Royal Lodge. The guests were Edward’s mother Queen Mary, his sister the Princess Royal, his three brothers, Queen Mary’s brother the Earl of Athlone and his wife Princess Alice. The Earl of Athlone later recalled, “It might have been quite a gloomy [read more]
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]
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