The Duke of Windsor is Edward VIII of England.
King Edward VIII of England was born in June 1894, the eldest son of King George V and Queen Mary. According to the law of succession to the throne, 19 10 was established as the British Crown Prince. The following year, he was made Prince of Wales. The crown prince is not only tall and broad-mouthed, but also full of heaven. His eyes are full of royalty and a rich face. He is tall and strong, healthy as a galloping horse, which is against the long-standing disadvantage of the crown princes of the British royal family. After the outbreak of World War I, the 20-year-old Crown Prince was neither expensive nor charming. He took the initiative to join the war and served as an army staff officer. He fought bloody battles in the trenches of France and made many achievements. After the war, the crown prince visited Europe and America on behalf of the British king and won the praise of politicians from all over the world. The Crown Prince is more sympathetic, often wearing casual clothes, patrolling the streets of factories and mines, taking care of the lives of workers and understanding the sufferings of the homeless. The British people are deeply proud of having a good Chu Jun in the British Empire. However, while being gratified, the British also found that the future monarch had a big problem, that is, he turned a blind eye to court etiquette and completely ignored it.
After the crown prince turned 20, the royal family began to look for a princess according to court etiquette. Countless ladies admire the crown prince, and they are charming and compete for the position of princess. Unexpectedly, the Crown Prince, who was in his prime, was as cold as ice and completely ignored him. After the age of 30, the Crown Prince is still alone. As a mother, Queen Mary is most worried about the Crown Prince and Princess. Thinking hard, I sent someone to Switzerland with the statue of the Crown Prince, and asked the one-eyed hexagrams on the streets of Geneva to give directions with heavy money. The one-eyed diviner carefully studied the statue of the Crown Prince with one eye and pondered for a long time. After receiving the divination gold, he spit out eight words: "A drop in the ocean, Wan Li!" The queen said the spell of one-eyed divination, and she was puzzled. Because I believe that one-eyed divination is always unpredictable, knowing that it is a secret and whispering the righteousness, I am too lazy to explain it.
193 1 June, on a whim, the Crown Prince played an old trick that had been put on hold for a long time, put on casual clothes, dressed as an ordinary helper, boarded the train and went out to play alone. The train is empty, so big a box, except the crown prince, there is only one single woman. The woman is blonde, bright eyes and white teeth, thick lips, plump and delicious. There are many kinds of customs between words, and you walk gracefully. The crown prince peeped for a long time and his heart beat. He couldn't help but break the husband's habit of being cold in front of women and take the initiative to chat up single women. They talked about everything, from the foggy days in London to the Atlantic winds, from brandy in France to castles in Spain, and the more they talked, the more they got out of hand. For the first time, the 37-year-old Crown Prince devoted himself wholeheartedly and felt happy both physically and mentally. This woman is from America on the other side of the Atlantic, Mrs Simpson, who contributed to the anecdote of the abdication of the British king. Up to now, Mrs Simpson still doesn't know the real identity of the Crown Prince, and still regards the British man who accosted her as an ordinary worker.
After the train came back, the Crown Prince and Mrs Simpson fell in love at first sight and became bosom friends. The two often date and are inseparable. Both of them hang out in high-end dance halls and low-end bars. On the Thames yacht, on the banks of the Danube in Vienna and on the leaning tower of Pisa in Italy, the laughter of the Crown Prince and the gentle singing of Mrs Simpson were left everywhere. The two of them, a charming girl and a stunning city, became the focus of news and the object of people's street talk for a time. Some people talked about the possibility of Mrs Simpson becoming an English princess, but this speculation was immediately denied by people who knew the British royal succession practice. Although Mrs Simpson has the color of sinking fish and falling geese, and indeed reveals the spirit of elegance and luxury, she is several years older than the Crown Prince, married and born in poverty. Not only that, Mrs Simpson is also an American citizen. Arrogant Britons will never accept a married American woman as the future queen of their country. This is detrimental to the great reputation of the British Empire! The crown prince's love for Mrs Simpson is probably just a farce.
1936, King George V of England died. According to the law of succession to the throne, the Crown Prince succeeded to the throne and was named Edward VIII. The young king, with both military and cultural resources and extraordinary energy, is indeed the only candidate to rule the world. The British people congratulated their country on having such a wise new king. But within a few months, this joy was replaced by melancholy. Less than a year after the new king ascended the throne, in June 1936+ 1 1, he proposed to join Qin Jin with Mrs Simpson. The British royal family, the government and both houses of parliament were shocked. According to the royal practice of choosing empresses, this is absolutely impossible! On behalf of the government, the royal family and parliament, British Prime Minister Baldwin proposed that Britain could not accept an American as queen. The king can only choose between the throne and Mrs Simpson. If he must marry Mrs Simpson, he must resign from the throne! After several days' consideration, Edward VIII made a decision: to resign from the throne and marry Mrs Simpson!
1936165438+1October, the major British newspapers suddenly published an explosive news with a banner title on the front page. The headline of the news is: don't love mountains and rivers and love beautiful people. The subtitle is: King Edward VIII of England resigned from the throne for Mrs Simpson! At first, European and American readers thought that journalists had nothing to do and made April Fool's Day-style deceptive reports. Some admirers of Edward VIII even called the newspaper and accused them of insulting the Supreme King. He is the king of hundreds of millions of subjects in the British Empire and also leads the thrones of Great Britain, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. Why isn't there a beautiful girl? How can you give up the throne for a Mrs Simpson? No one believes the gossip in the newspaper. Unfortunately, the news report is true. A few days later, the British government press officer solemnly announced; King Edward VIII of England has signed the abdication document, and Parliament has approved the king's abdication request! This is an amazing story in the world: the king of England really resigned from the throne for a woman!
1936 12 February 12, Edward VIII officially abdicated, and his brother Duke of York succeeded to the throne and was named George VI. Edward VIII, 43, was made Duke of Windsor after he resigned from the throne. Soon, Mrs Simpson and I got married in France. After they got married, they flew together and fell in love very much. The duke was appointed as a member of the British military delegation to France to participate in military aircraft. After the fall of France, the Duke and his wife moved to Spain. Later, he was appointed Governor-General of the Bahamas of the British Empire, and in July 1940, he went across the ocean to take office. 1972, the Duke of Windsor died of old age at the age of 78.
Although the Duke of Windsor lost his throne, he got a beautiful woman. This unpatriotic love of beauty has become a much-told story for a time. Decades later, 1996, some famous British news media exposed the secret old case that the Duke of Windsor loved beauty or not. At that time, there was a great uproar and it soon spread all over the world. These curious reporters said that according to reliable archival materials, the Duke of Windsor resigned from the throne that year, not for the beauty of the United States, but actually because he had frequent secret contacts with fascists and Nazis. On the European continent, when the axis countries of fascism are sharpening their swords to people all over the world, the king of a country in Britain, who later became one of the leaders of the anti-fascist alliance, is making eyes at the enemy. This is a shameful scandal that the British royal family can't accept anyway. The British royal family can only force Edward to resign from the throne on the pretext that he can't accept an American lady who has been married and become a queen, so as to cover up his scars. This sounds too bizarre. Unfortunately, the British royal family recently reluctantly admitted this disgraceful history, making this story that has been told for decades go away.