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Abdication of Edward VIII. Instrument of abdication signed by Edward VIII and his three brothers, Albert, Henry and George, 10 December 1936. In early December 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was in ...
11 déc. 2023 · By Myles Burke,Features correspondent. Getty Images. On 11 December 1936, unable to reconcile his desire for US divorcée Wallis Simpson with his role as King, Edward VIII made the shocking decision...
The Abdication is a 1974 British historical drama film directed by Anthony Harvey and starring Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann. The film's score was composed by Nino Rota . [1] It tells a fictionalized version of the rumored love affair between Christina, Queen of Sweden and Cardinal Decio Azzolino during the former's stay in Rome after abdicating ...
Edward VIII's Abdication speech, 11 December 1936. The Abdication speech survives today as it was recorded by BBC engineers in defiance of orders. For many years archivists denied its...
La crise d'abdication d'Édouard VIII est une période de crise survenue en 1936 dans l' Empire britannique et plus particulièrement au Royaume-Uni. Elle est due à Édouard VIII, alors roi du Royaume-Uni et des dominions britanniques et empereur des Indes, qui décida d' abdiquer en faveur de son frère George VI afin de pouvoir se marier avec Wallis...
24 mai 2024 · Edward VIII, prince of Wales (1911–36) and king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and emperor of India from January 20 to December 10, 1936, when he abdicated to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson. Edward VIII was the only British sovereign to voluntarily resign the crown.
28 juin 2017 · On 10 December 1936, Edward VIII executed an Instrument of Abdication which was given legal effect the following day, when Edward gave Royal Assent to His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act, by which Edward VIII and any children he might have were excluded from succession to the throne.
