Wallis and Edward THE OTHER ROYAL REBELS
He had a bitter feud with his brother and raised eyebrows when he wrote a revealing biography about his life as a royal. He and his divorcée American wife used their celebrity status to make eye-watering amounts of money and they had poisonous rows with the British throne about money and their royal titles.
‘The famous charm is still there, but I never saw a man more bored’
It sounds like a short roundup of the trials and tribulations of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. But, in fact, this is the story of Harry’s great-grand-uncle King Edward VIII.
While there may be some similarities between the two couples, the Sussexes’ lifestyle is far less extreme than the Windsors after they left the fold. In his new book , author Andrew Lownie has delved deep into the 1936 abdication of King Edward
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