Who was King Edward VIII? King Edward VIII, also known as Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, assumed the position of king of the United Kingdom in 1936. His father, George V, died on January 20, 1936, ...

Queen Elizabeth's fate changed as a child when her uncle Edward followed his heart and left royal life Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern monarchies and the ...

Seems like yet another royal abdication is on the cards. But this time, it’s not for the British royal family. King Philippe, the monarch of Belgium, recently opened up about when he might renounce ...

(CNN) — Bottles of beer brewed 86 years ago for the coronation of Edward VIII, but which were left unopened upon the event’s cancellation, will go on sale next month. Edward VIII ascended to the ...

"It was, you know, breaking his heart…Not having that title for his wife was a slap in his face," the Duke of Windsor's former nurse says in the new series The Real Crown: Inside the House of Windsor ...

"It’s fascinating when you draw the parallels between the two," Bullen told Fox News. "Both of them married divorced American women. We all know that, but it goes much deeper than that. Edward and his ...

Did you know that a former British king was hidden away at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne in western Paris? The French villa where Edward VIII lived for decades with his American wife, Wallis ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could soon “fade into obscurity” like Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, royal watcher warned. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Admedia ...

Ever since that day back in 2017 when it was announced that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were engaged to be married, there’s been no shortage of comparisons between the duke’s bride and Wallis ...

“There will soon be only five Kings left — the Kings of England, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades, and Clubs” — King Farouk to Lord Boyd-Orr in Cairo, 1951. Monarchy in Britain, as King Farouk’s quip suggests ...