Piers Brendon.

piers brendon: edward viii biography
edward VIII: the uncrowned king (2018)

Only months into his reign, Edward caused a constitutional crisis through his proposal to marry Wallis Simpson, an American who had divorced her first husband and was seeking a divorce from her second. The prime ministers of the United Kingdom and the Dominions opposed the marriage, arguing a divorced woman with two living ex-husbands was politically and socially unacceptable as a prospective queen consort. When it became apparent he could not marry Simpson and remain on the throne, he abdicated.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Piers Brendon (born 1940) was educated at Shrewbury School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. His PhD was on Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement. After 13 years teaching history at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, he became Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre, in succession to Correlli Barnett. He has published numerous historical and biographical books, including a biography of Dwight Eisenhower, and The Dark Valley - a history of the 1930s. He lives in Cambridge with his wife Vyvyen Brendon, who is also an author.

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