A contemporary account of the abdication crisis by Whitehall official Sir Horace Wilson sheds new light on the events of 1936 As the Abdication crisis reached boiling-point in the dying days of 1936, ...

Despite being monarch for less than a year, King Charles already surpassed the reign of his great-uncle King Edward VIII. King Charles immediately acceded his mother as monarch following her death on ...

In Scotland, where optimism is unfashionable, able editors were dourly convinced last week that the Press has not seen the last of the non-gossip features of the Edward & Mrs. Simpson story. Its ...

Ninety years ago today, the course of future Queen Elizabeth's life was forever altered when her uncle, King Edward VIII, chose to abdicate tthe throne in order to marry Wallis Simpson — casting the ...

Queen Mary and King Edward VIII had a fractured mother-son relationship that greatly affected the future of the royal family. It laid the foundation for his controversial abdication that changed the ...

Empire and world interest focused last week on a tiny old man with a knob of a head, thin greying hair and gold-rimmed spectacles. This was the mysterious “intervener” in the divorce case of Mrs.

LONDON (Reuters) - A letter penned by the future King Edward VIII to his mistress depicts him as a starry-eyed, incurable romantic, years before his sensational decision to marry divorcee Wallis ...

Queen Elizabeth's fate changed as a child when her uncle Edward followed his heart and left royal life Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern monarchies and the ...