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No royal scandal has rocked Britain quite like this one.

Well, unless you include Rich the Third possibly murdering his nephews, or, well, at the time

John starved his nephew to death, or that other time when Henry II's children all hooked

up with the French king and tried to pose that, well, okay, no royal scandal in the modern era has rocked Britain quite like this one.

Well, unless you don't particularly believe a pizza express in woking as a valid alibi.

But anyway, it's one of the greatest scandals in the history of the modern monarchy, okay?

A member of the monarchy defies expectation and family, takes on social convention and marries a divorced American woman.

The couple faced a brutal media storm. They're exiled from their family. They're chased out of their country.

And they reinvent themselves with other media project to survive. I am, of course, talking about the marriage between Edward the 8th and Wallace Simpson,

the American socialite for whom he abdicated the British Crown in December 1936.

He chose love over duty and caused not just a familial riff, but a constitutional crisis

because he was head of the Church of England, which was against remarriage after divorce,

and she had been divorced twice.

His choice was unacceptable to the old fogies in the British government and many people

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