Edward the Eighth, 1936.
Duke of Windsor (after abdication)
| BORN: | 23 June 1894, White Lodge Richmond, Surrey. |
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| PARENTS: | George V (1865 - 1936), Mary of Teck (1867 - 1953). |
| MARRIED: | Wallis Warfield Simpson (1896 - 1986), 3 June 1937, Château de Candé, Maine-et-Loire, France. |
| ACCEDED: | 20 January 1936 |
| CROWNED: | Never crowned. (abdicated: 11 December 1936) |
| DIED: | 28 May 1972, Bois de Boulogne, Paris. |
| INTERRED: | Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire. |
| CHILDREN: | None |
| COEVAL PERSONS: |
Prime Ministers: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) Archbishops of Canterbury: Cosmo Gordon Lang |
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| NOTABLE EVENTS: |
Abdication Crisis, 1936. |
| MULTIMEDIA: | Contemporaneous news report by Alvar Liddell, announcing the abdication of Edward VIII in December 1936. © BBC [opens new window]. |
