Wallis Simpson "never loved King Edward VIII" who famously abdicated the British throne, according to a former royal butler ...

wasn't meant to be King but ended up becoming the perfect "spare" to heir to the throne David, who reigned — and abdicated — as Edward VIII. As the "spare" to Prince Edward, the eldest son and ...

Could Charles ever opt to abdicate? Highly unlikely. Some may point to King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne in 1936 after just 11 months because of his desire to marry a divorced woman ...

Edward abdicated on December 10. The Queen Mother gave her halo tiara to her daughter, then Princess Elizabeth on her 18th birthday. Cartier has been called the King of jewellery, but it is very ...