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5 days ago · The old guard was fearful that a marriage between the Queen’s fun-loving sister and the divorced war hero would damage a monarchy still recovering from Edward VIII’s abdication for the twice-wed American Wallis Simpson.
4 days ago · On December 10, King Edward VIII signed the abdication document and on the following day, the document was endorsed by Parliament. His brother George took the throne as King George VI and gave Edward the title Duke of Windsor. On the same day, December 11th, Edward made a statement on the BBC radio.
3 days ago · The mansion in Paris occupied by Britain’s King Edward VIII, the uncle of Queen Elizabeth II, after he abdicated the throne is opening to the public for the first time. Reporting for TODAY, NBC ...
3 days ago · The mansion in Paris occupied by Britain’s King Edward VIII, the uncle of Queen Elizabeth II, after he abdicated the throne is opening to the public for the first time. Reporting for TODAY, NBC ...
21 hours ago · Edward VI died July 6, 1553 at the young age of 15. He reigned only six short years as King of England and Ireland: the "Boy King." As the long-awaited male heir of Henry VIII (and Jane Seymour), Edward was England's first Protestant king who, with the full support of the leaders around him, began the cataclysmic theological eruption that we know today as the English Reformation.
21 hours ago · Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , Edward, nicknamed "Bertie", was related to royalty throughout Europe.
2 days ago · United Kingdom - Henry VIII, Tudor, Reformation: An 18-year-old prince inherited his father’s throne, but the son of an Ipswich butcher carried on the first Tudor’s administrative policies. While the young sovereign enjoyed his inheritance, Thomas Wolsey collected titles—archbishop of York in 1514, lord chancellor and cardinal legate in ...
