Senior Palace courtier Sir Alan 'Tommy' Lascelles told prime minister Stanley Baldwin in private that it would be the 'best thing' if his boss, the future King Edward VIII, were to 'break his neck'.

A bombshell secret letter from the abdicated King Edward VIII to Adolf Hitler in the run-up to the Second World War has been unearthed in royal archives. Its sickening contents, hidden for 86 ...

On 11 December 1936, unable to reconcile his desire for US divorcée Wallis Simpson with his role as King, Edward VIII made the shocking decision to abdicate the throne, bringing an end to a ...