A contemporary account of the abdication crisis by Whitehall official Sir Horace Wilson sheds new light on the events of 1936 As the Abdication crisis reached boiling-point in the dying days of 1936, ...

In Scotland, where optimism is unfashionable, able editors were dourly convinced last week that the Press has not seen the last of the non-gossip features of the Edward & Mrs. Simpson story. Its ...

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A letter penned by the future King Edward VIII to his mistress depicts him as a starry-eyed, incurable romantic, years before his sensational decision to marry divorcee Wallis ...

Sir Ronald Lindsay, the moose-tall Ambassador at Washington of His Britannic Majesty, eschewed last week each of his many opportunities to correct or deny the extraordinary dispatches which hourly ...

In the 1930s, how would a middle-class Baltimore divorcee become romantically involved with the man who would be King of England? It all comes down to who you know, and Wallis Simpson knew how to ...