Edward VIII Windsor, 18941972 (aged 77 years)

Name
Edward VIII /Windsor/
Type of name
birth name
Given names
Edward VIII
Surname
Windsor
Birth
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Birth of a brother
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Death of a paternal grandfather
May 6, 1910 (aged 15 years)
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Marriage
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Death of a brother
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Death
May 28, 1972 (aged 77 years)
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Family with parents
father
18651936
Birth: June 3, 1865 23 20 Marlborough House, London, England
Death: January 20, 1936Sandringham, Norfolk, England
mother
18671953
Birth: May 26, 1867Kensington Palace, London, England
Death: March 24, 1953Marlborough House, London, England
Marriage MarriageJuly 6, 1893
1 year
himself
18941972
Birth: June 23, 1894 29 27 White Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey, England
Death: May 28, 1972Paris, France
18 months
younger brother
18951952
Birth: December 14, 1895 30 28 York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Death: February 6, 1952Sandringham, Norfolk, England
17 months
younger sister
18971965
Birth: April 25, 1897 31 29 York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Death: March 28, 1965Harewood House, Yorkshire, England
3 years
younger brother
19001974
Birth: March 31, 1900 34 32 York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Death: June 10, 1974
3 years
younger brother
19021942
Birth: December 20, 1902 37 35 York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Death: August 25, 1942Morven, Scotland
3 years
younger brother
19051919
Birth: July 12, 1905 40 38 York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Death: January 18, 1919Wood Farm, Wolferton, Norfolk, England
Family with Bessie Wallis Warfield
himself
18941972
Birth: June 23, 1894 29 27 White Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey, England
Death: May 28, 1972Paris, France
wife
Marriage MarriageJune 3, 1937
Ernest Aldrich Simpson + Bessie Wallis Warfield
wife’s ex-husband
18951958
Birth: May 6, 1895New York City
Death: November 30, 1958London, England
wife
Marriage Marriage
Divorce Divorce
Shared note

Edward VIII (1894-1972), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and emperor of India (January 20-December 11, 1936), later known as the duke of Windsor. Edward was born Jun e 23, 1894, in White Lodge, Richmond Park, and was educated at the naval preparatory college at Osborne; the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; and Magdalen College, University of Oxford.

During World War I he served with the Grenadier Guards in France, Italy, Flanders, and Egypt. In 1919 he undertook the first of many official goodwill tours to Canada and other countries. In the 1920s and 1930s he supported slum-clearance projects, aid to the unemployed, and improvement of the working conditions of British miners.

On the death of his father, King George V, in January 1936, Edward was proclaimed King Edward VIII. Before long, rumours circulated about his alleged romance with an American, Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, then married to her second husband, a London shipping broker. On October 20, 1936, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin counselled Edward, as king and head of the Church of England, to remove all cause for the rumours. A week later Mrs. Simpson was granted a divorce, to become final in six months. In November the king confided to Baldwin that he intended to marry Mrs. Simpson even if it meant his abdication. A morganatic marriage was proposed, but the cabinet was unwilling to accept this compromise. On December 11, 1936, therefore, the king abdicated in favour of his brother, the duke of York, who became King George VI. Edward received the title duke of Windsor and married Mrs. Simpson in June 1937. Because his wife was not accorded the privileges of a royal duchess in England, the duke of Windsor resided abroad.

In 1937 he observed social and housing conditions in Germany and visited Adolf Hitler. During World War II he served as a major general in the British Expeditionary Force, and he was governor of the Bahamas from 1940 to 1945. After the war he lived as a private British citizen, chiefly in the United States and France. At the funeral of George VI in February 1952, he took part in a British royal ceremony for the first time since his abdication. The duke wrote A King's Story (1951) which was made into a film in 1967, and Windsor Revisited (1960). He died May 28, 1972, in Paris.