The photographs from the visit and the rumours it generated would forever tarnish the former King's reputation.

As a biographer, your work spans vastly different moments and figures from modern history – from Wallis Simpson to Ethel ...

Wallis Simpson , the woman who became Duchess of Windsor after King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry her, was born ...

The wife of the former king, Edward VIII, spent her final years as a “prisoner” in her “slum” of a bedroom. Wallis Simpson was an American socialite who met the then-Prince of Wales ...

The shocking reason Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII spent WW2 exiled in the Bahamas. By ED HOLT. Published: 02:30 EDT, 24 April 2025 | Updated: 06:57 EDT, 24 April 2025 ...

When King George V died on January 1936, King Edward VIII was next in line to the throne. ... so much so that Adolf Hitler himself called her 'the most dangerous woman in Europe'. ...

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 hour meeting privately with Adolf ...

On December 9, 1936, King Edward VIII informed his government of his decision to abdicate. ... Goebbels and Adolf Hitler himself, and the Duke - who was later vocal about appeasing Hitler ...

Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry Wallis Simpson. Here, the couple is pictured in the Bahamas, where Edward served as governor between 1940 and 1945.

If things had worked out differently one summer's day in July 1936, King Edward VIII's abdication would have been nothing more than one of history's mysterious 'what ifs'. Because if a club-footed ...