King Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson: American Almost Ruins the British Crown

The British Royal family is always in the news. Just in my lifetime, there has been numerous scandals, controversies, and constant gossip that has consumed the press and public. But in 1936, perhaps the mother of all scandals hit the Royal Family when King Edward VIII, less than a year into is his reign, abdicated the throne so he could marry a common woman. Not just any common woman. An American woman, who was still married herself.