Question: In which year did Edward VIII proposed to marry a divorced American which is dramatized in the movie Wallis & Edward?
Context: The Duchess of Windsor is a 1980 biography of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor by Diana Mosley.  The book was published by Sidgwick & Jackson and by Gibson Square in 2003.  In Paris, Mosley and her husband Oswald Mosley were long-term neighbours and friends of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor and Edward VIII.  On 26 June 1980, she was interviewed by Russell Harty on the BBC to discuss the project. Edward VIII Ice Shelf is an ice shelf occupying the head of Edward VIII Bay in Antarctica.  The northern part of this feature was called Innviksletta (the inner bay plain) by Norwegian cartographers, who mapped it from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936–37.  The area was first visited in 1954 by an ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) sledge party.  The entire ice shelf was then mapped and named in association with Edward VIII Bay. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield; also known by her married names of Wallis Spencer and Wallis Simpson; 19 June 1896 – 24 April 1986) was an American socialite whose intended marriage to King Edward VIII caused him to abdicate his throne. Wallis & Edward (in Canada also known as Her Royal Affair) is a 2005 British made-for-TV movie, scripted by Sarah Williams, dramatising the events of the Edward VIII abdication crisis.  It was billed as the first scripted account of the romance between Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII of the United Kingdom to view events from Wallis Simpson's point of view.  Joely Richardson played Wallis, and Steven Campbell Moore, Edward. Edward VIII Bay is a bay about 20 mi in extent, located between Edward VIII Plateau (a dome-shaped, ice-covered peninsula near Magnet Bay) and the Øygarden Group of islands.  The head of the bay is occupied by the Edward VIII Ice Shelf.  The bay was discovered in 1936 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the RRS "William Scoresby", and named for Edward VIII, then King of the United Kingdom. The Edward VIII Plateau is a dome-shaped, ice-covered peninsula between Magnet Bay and Edward VIII Bay.  It was probably seen by personnel on the RSS "William Scoresby" in 1936, and mapped from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named Gulfplataet (the gulf plateau).  It was renamed "King Edward Plateau" by ANCA, but the form Edward VIII Plateau has been approved by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) to be consistent with the names of nearby Edward VIII Bay and Ice Shelf. Events from the year 1936 in the United Kingdom.  The year is notable for the death of George V early in the year, the accession of his son Edward VIII (previously styled David, Prince of Wales) to the throne, and then Edward VIII's abdication, resulting in the accession to the throne of his younger brother George VI (previously Albert, Duke of York). In 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King-Emperor Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing a divorce of her second. Edward & Mrs. Simpson is a seven-part British television series that dramatises the events leading to the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII, who gave up his throne to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson. His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 (1 Edw.  8 & 1 Geo.  6 c. 3) was the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that recognised and ratified the abdication of King Edward VIII and passed succession to his brother King George VI.  The act also excluded any possible future descendants of Edward from the line of succession.  Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry his lover, Wallis Simpson, after facing opposition from the governments of the United Kingdom and the Dominions.
Answer: 1936