In the Green Drawing Room
King of England and the British dominions; Emperor of India upon his father's death
Governor of the Bahamas
Prince of Wales on his 16th birthday
British Army
King Edward announced his abdication as King Edward of England before his planned coronation date of 12 May 1937
Oorzaak: laryngeal cancer
Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore
Hij is getrouwd met Bessie Wallis Warfield.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 3 juni 1937 te Monts, France, hij was toen 42 jaar oud.
Chateau de Cande
Gebeurtenis (Death of Spouse) op 28 mei 1972.
Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Windsor Sachsen-Coburg Gotha | ||||||||||||||||||
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Bessie Wallis Warfield |
Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December the same year, after which he became the Duke of Windsor.
Edward was the eldest son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was created Prince of Wales on his sixteenth birthday, nine weeks after his father succeeded as king. As a young man, he served in the British Army during the First World War and undertook several overseas tours on behalf of his father.
Edward became king on his father's death in early 1936. However, he showed impatience with court protocol, and caused concern among politicians by his apparent disregard for established constitutional conventions. Only months into his reign, he caused a constitutional crisis by proposing to Wallis Simpson, an American who had divorced her first husband and was seeking a divorce from her second. The prime ministers of the United Kingdom and the Dominions opposed the marriage, arguing a divorced woman with two living ex-husbands was politically and socially unacceptable as a prospective queen consort. Additionally, such a marriage would have conflicted with Edward's status as the titular head of the Church of England, which at the time disapproved of remarriage after divorce if a former spouse was still alive. Edward knew the British government, led by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, would resign if the marriage went ahead, which could have forced a general election and would ruin his status as a politically neutral constitutional monarch. When it became apparent he could not marry Wallis and remain on the throne, Edward abdicated. He was succeeded by his younger brother, George VI. With a reign of 326 days, Edward is one of the shortest-reigning monarchs in British history.
After his abdication, he was created Duke of Windsor. He married Wallis in France on 3 June 1937, after her second divorce became final. Later that year, the couple toured Germany. During the Second World War, he was at first stationed with the British Military Mission to France, but after private accusations that he held Nazi sympathies he was appointed Governor of the Bahamas. After the war, Edward spent the rest of his life in retirement in France. Edward and Wallis remained married until his death in 1972.
Mary's son John died in 1919 aged 13 and was buried at the parish church of Sandringham. Her only daughter Mary married Lord Lascelles in 1922. [37] Albert (the future George VI) married Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923, but her eldest son, the Prince of Wales refused to settle down, worrying his parents by having affairs with married women - a harbinger of the constitutional crisis ahead.
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