Abdication of Edward VIII

CW / 2017-12-11

On 10 December 1936, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, of the House of Windsor (formerly Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) abdicated the throne of England in order to marry his love, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. His younger brother Albert would ascend to the throne as King George VI, who is the current queen’s father.

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