Edward VIII, King of England
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| − | '''Edward VIII, King of | + | '''Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Ireland''', reigned for one year in 1936. |
| − | + | With a birth name of "Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David", Edward was born [[Jun 23]], 1894 at White Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey County, England to [[George V, King of England|George of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha] and his wife Mary of Teck. George and Mary would later become King and Queen of Great Britian and Ireland in 1910 when George's father Edward VII died. | |
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| + | Edward was known or rumoured to be a terrible flirt and led a profligate life up until he met [[Bessie Wallis Warfield]] probably about 1934. They became lovers, which became widely enough known for his father George to despair of the thought that Wallis, once- divorced and currently married, would be Queen of England. George ordered his wife to never acknowledge Wallis and she never did according to Kitty Kelley's book ''The Royals''. | ||
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| + | When George died in 1936, Edward became King. Now the situation was critical. He insisted that he would marry Wallis and the government insisted just as strongly that he must not. The situation came to a head, and Churchill wrote his abdication speech which he gave by radio on | ||
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| + | Married [[Bessie Wallis Warfield]] and abdicated that same year. | ||
