Despite being monarch for less than a year, King Charles already surpassed the reign of his great-uncle King Edward VIII. King Charles immediately acceded his mother as monarch following her death on ...

Britain’s monarchy holds prestige but not power and is subject to public sentiment. This is evident with Andrew Mountbatten ...

A contemporary account of the abdication crisis by Whitehall official Sir Horace Wilson sheds new light on the events of 1936 As the Abdication crisis reached boiling-point in the dying days of 1936, ...

Wallis Simpson lived one of the most colorful lives of the 20th century. A wealthy and wild American (not to mention twice-divorced), Wallis Simpson scandalized the Royal Family by marrying Prince ...

His younger brother, Albert, Duke of York – Queen Elizabeth II’s father – became King George VI and made Edward Duke of ...

Edward’s relationship with his mistress-turned-wife Wallis Simpson led to a constitutional crisis that forced him to abdicate in 1936 ...

The story of the man who gave up being king in order to marry the woman he fell in love with. The dramatic relationship between Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson is what you can call a forbidden romance ...

Either Madonna is experiencing a late-career resurgence or, more likely, she is just once again demonstrating her marketing brilliance. She has a new album out, she just did the halftime show at the ...

King Charles III acted briskly — as briskly as a Windsor ever does — and rather ruthlessly in dealing with his embattled ...

Queen Elizabeth's fate changed as a child when her uncle Edward followed his heart and left royal life Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern monarchies and the ...