Edward VIII, King of England
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'''Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Ireland''', reigned for one year in 1936. | '''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; the eldest son of [[George V, King of England|George of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha] and his wife Mary | + | 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; the eldest son of [[George V, King of England|George of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]] and his wife Mary von Teck. George and Mary would later become King and Queen of Great Britian and Ireland in 1910 when George's father Edward VII died, and young Edward would then be heir to the throne. |
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. His dazzling blond hair and "sad blue eyes" evidently made the women swoon. Probably in 1934 or 1935, he and Wallis 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 Mary to never acknowledge Wallis and she never did according to Kitty Kelley's book ''The Royals''. | 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. His dazzling blond hair and "sad blue eyes" evidently made the women swoon. Probably in 1934 or 1935, he and Wallis 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 Mary to never acknowledge Wallis and she never did according to Kitty Kelley's book ''The Royals''. | ||
