On This Day December 10

Desiring to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson against widespread opposition, Edward VIII abdicated the United kingdom throne on December 10, 1936, the only British monarch to have voluntarily done so since the Anglo-Saxon period. After his abdication, Edward was given the title Duke of Windsor. He married Simpson in a private ceremony near Tours, France on June 3, 1937.

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