Everyday you ladies write about love and relationship.....Do you really know true love? I know that you think you know what love is, but do you really? Would you be willing to give up a kingdom for the person you love? Would you be willing to give up a fortune for the person you love? Would you be willing to give up all of your worldly possessions for the person you love? This may not be the greatest love story ever, but it is certainly one of the greatest. On Dec. 11, 1936, King Edward VIII gave up the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American. Years later, the FBI investigated the couple’s links to Germany’s Nazi regime. Known as the Playboy Prince of Wales, the “good-looking, raffish and easy going” Edward earned a reputation in the 1920s for carrying on affairs with married women, writes the BBC. In the early 1930s, he began a relationship with Wallis Simpson, an American who lived in London with her British second husband. Edward became king on Jan. 20, 1936, following the death of his father, George V. Over the course of the year, Mrs. Simpson appeared with Edward at state functions and on travels, and their relationship became apparent to government officials and the press. Mrs. Simpson divorced her husband on Oct. 27; weeks later, Edward informed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin that he intended to marry Simpson. As king, Edward was titular head of the Church of England, which at that time did not allow divorced people to marry within the church while a former spouse was still alive. Baldwin and most members of Parliament rejected the idea that a two-time divorcée could become queen. Edward suggested a morganatic marriage, in which he would marry Mrs. Simpson without making her queen, but Parliament rejected the idea. On Dec. 2, according to the BBC, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin told Edward that he had “three choices: to finish his relationship with Mrs. Simpson, to marry against the advice of his ministers who would then resign, or to abdicate.” Edward decided to marry and abdicate. On Dec. 10, he submitted an Instrument of Abdication to Parliament, which approved it the following day. That night, Edward delivered a speech to the public on BBC radio. “You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne,” Edward said. “But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve. But you must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.”
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:14:41 +0000
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