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Date of birth
He was born in 1894 at White Lodge, Richmond. -
His parents
Edward was the eldest son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was named Prince of Wales on his sixteenth birthday, nine weeks after his father succeeded as king. -
His private life
He was married in 1937, but he didn´t have any children an his wife was Mrs Wallis Simpson. -
He became King
Edward VIII succeeds his father, George V, as King. He was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India. -
The crisis
A constitutional crisis arose when Edward wished to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson -
Edward´s abdication
After his abdication Edward and Wallis became The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, but were ostracised by his family who felt he had let them down and not done his duty. -
The second world war
During the Second World War, he was at first stationed with the British Military Mission to France but, after private accusations that he held Nazi sympathies, he was appointed Governor of the Bahamas. After the war, Edward spent the rest of his life in retirement in France.
