Duke of Windsor(1894-1972)
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Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David was born on
June 23, 1894. He was the son of the future King George V and Queen Mary. He was
in the army and was an uncrowned King for a little under a year after
the death of his father in 1936. In the early 30s he met an American
divorcee, Wallis Warfield Simpson, who was married to her second
husband. She and the Prince fell in love and she got divorced in 1936.
The Establishment reacted against the idea of a twice married American
divorcée as Queen, and Edward decided to abdicate in favour of his
younger brother Albert who became King George VI. He and Wallis married in
1937, and became Duke and Duchess of Windsor, though she was not made a
Royal Highness. He met Hitler before the war started and Hitler said
that Wallis would have made a good Queen. During the war Edward was
named Governor of the Bahamas. After the war he lived mainly in Paris
where he died in May of 1972.
