What Happened To Wallis Simpson After Edward VIII Died

History loves a king. It forgets, almost on purpose, the women who cost those kings their thrones. Picture the great unmade scandals of the last century, the marriages the Establishment scrubbed out of the official photographs and prayed would dissolve into some quiet foreign suburb where nobody important lived. A few of those women obliged. They faded, they apologized in the only language the Palace accepted, which meant silence, and they let the institution win. Wallis Simpson refused every part of that bargain. She took a king. She took the King of England and Emperor of India, the man whose profile decorated the coins, and she peeled him off the throne like a stamp off a hot envelope. In December 1936 Edward VIII chose a twice-divorced girl from Baltimore over the oldest crown in Europe, and the entire machinery of British power never forgave either of them. Forget that part for now; you already know it. The abdication, the radio broadcast, the woman he loved, blah, blah, blah. Music used in the video: Pendulum Waltz by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Artist: http://audionautix.com/