Edward VIII (HM6)

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; * June 23rd of 1894), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the and the Dominions of the and Emperor of from January 20th in 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year, in favor of his brother . He hasn't even been crowned.
Only months into his reign, a constitutional crisis was caused by his proposal to marry Wallis Simpson, an American who had divorced her first husband and was seeking a divorce from her second. He married her in France on June 3rd in 1937. Later that year, the couple toured , even meeting with , which fed rumours that he was a Nazi sympathiser. The jury's still out in 1940, even when a German bureaucrat of the Foreign Office claims he had revealed in February 1940 that the Allies had seen the plan to invade in the West.
When the invaded the north of in May 1940, the Windsors fled south.
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