If it had been possible for me to talk to King Edward VIII for just one hour, the abdication of His Majesty could have been avoided. He had a responsibility not only to Britain but to Europe of which ...

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Facts about Germany which came over the cables last week as the world press eagerly followed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s inspection of how the common people fared in Naziland (TIME, Oct. 18): ¶ ...

It was the talk of the Western world. On October 22, 1937, the headline-making Edward, Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated as King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom less than a year earlier, spent an ...

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It is arguably the most infamous royal tour ever, sparking panic for both the Palace and government. In October 1937, King Edward VIII accepted an invitation to visit Nazi Germany. He was motivated by ...

With the arrival of The Kings Speech last year, the life and times of Bertie, or King George VI to his subjects, is now well documented. His brother David, or Edward VIII as he was briefly known, was ...

The surname has always been hyphenated but the name appeared without a hyphen in the statement from Buckingham Palace on Thursday.