10-16-2011, 09:23 AM
It was one of the great most nauseating disgusting love stories of the 20th Century. she was just some old whore from Baltimore.
The romance between Edward VIII and twice-divorced U.S. socialite Wallis Simpson rocked the nation and triggered a constitutional crisis.
History has portrayed Edward as the man who gave up the throne for love.
But now pictures have been unearthed which prove he fully intended to remain as King right up to his abdication on December 10, 1936.
They show him posing for artists in preparation for his coronation just a few days before he stepped down.
The portraits were discovered in archives owned by the Illustrated London News.
When the coronation finally took place on May 12, 1937, it was Edward’s brother Bertie who became George VI.
The secret lost Coronation Edition of the newspaper had been locked away in its archive by the publishers after the abdication was announced.
nauseating
The romance between Edward VIII and twice-divorced U.S. socialite Wallis Simpson rocked the nation and triggered a constitutional crisis.
History has portrayed Edward as the man who gave up the throne for love.
But now pictures have been unearthed which prove he fully intended to remain as King right up to his abdication on December 10, 1936.
They show him posing for artists in preparation for his coronation just a few days before he stepped down.
The portraits were discovered in archives owned by the Illustrated London News.
When the coronation finally took place on May 12, 1937, it was Edward’s brother Bertie who became George VI.
The secret lost Coronation Edition of the newspaper had been locked away in its archive by the publishers after the abdication was announced.
nauseating