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AI IMAGE - Portrait of King Edward VIII signing the Instrument of Abdication, 10 December 1936, (2023). Edward (1894-1972), King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of India, abdicated in order to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee, thus heading off an impending constitutional crisis. At the time, the Church of England disapproved of remarriage after divorce if a former spouse was still alive.