In Scotland, where optimism is unfashionable, able editors were dourly convinced last week that the Press has not seen the last of the non-gossip features of the Edward & Mrs. Simpson story. Its ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A letter penned by the future King Edward VIII to his mistress depicts him as a starry-eyed, incurable romantic, years before his sensational decision to marry divorcee Wallis ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Documents on the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII reveal for the first time that Scotland Yard spied on Wallis Simpson and alleged that she had another lover while she was courting the monarch. The ...

A contemporary account of the abdication crisis by Whitehall official Sir Horace Wilson sheds new light on the events of 1936 As the Abdication crisis reached boiling-point in the dying days of 1936, ...

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A nurse for former King Edward VIII claims that the late Queen Elizabeth II, Edward’s niece, rejected his dying wish to grant Wallis Simpson, his wife, a Her Royal Highness title. Julie Alexander, who ...

¶Expecting to occupy the Royal Box, there arrived at the Covent Garden Royal Opera one night last week dashing Prince Arthur of Connaught, son of the venerable Duke of Connaught who is the only ...