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Newspaper Headline Reading: 'Edward Will Take Mrs. Simpson as Royal Consort', 1936. 'King Edward VIII, the world's most famous batchelor...the American press is filled with rumours of royal romance, of the possibility of King Edward marrying Mrs. Wallis Simpson, the former Baltimore Belle...in this topsy-turvy world, it may be time for an American woman to marry a British king. "King Edward VIII of England will marry Mrs. Ernest Simpson of Baltimore, Maryland, some eight months after she obtains her divorce decree at Ipswich, intimate friends of the monarch revealed today. Mrs. Simpson is expected to obtain a divorce decree nisi tomorrow. Close friends of King Edward stated with utmost positiveness that he is deeply and sincerely enamored of Mrs. [Simpson]".' From "Time To Remember - The Time Of The Three Kings", 1936 ( Reel 3); documentary about events of the year of the abdication crisis.