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abdication crisis, 1936. A constitutional
scandale stemming from the determination of King Edward VIII, who succeeded his father George V on 20 January 1936, to marry Mrs Wallis
Simpson, an American lady who had divorced her first husband and was about to divorce her second. At first Edward hoped that he might enter into morganatic marriage: Wallis would become his wife but not queen.
Baldwin, prime minister, issued an ultimatum: the king must choose between the throne and Mrs Simpson. Edward chose the latter, and abdicated on 11 December. British public opinion was genuinely outraged at the prospect of the king marrying a twice-divorced American commoner, and there is much truth in the assertion that many Conservatives had been irritated by Edward's public indignation at unemployment and slum housing. None the less, had the king stood firm, it is difficult to see what the government could have done, short of denying him an income.
Geoffrey Alderman
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Royal letters on abdication crisis stay locked away
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/2/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...American divorcee who precipitated the 1936 abdication crisis, it emerged yesterday. Eight...also his confidant during and after the abdication. Edward gave up the throne less than...relating to members of Royal Family and the abdication to be treated under the 100-year rule...
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Abdication not the British way
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...He said: "I don't see any sign of abdication, the Queen enjoys it, she does it...celebrate her jubilee, to talk about abdication." If the Queen's health deteriorated...when George III became incapacitated. Abdication has not been seen in a voluntary capacity...
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Congressional Abdication on War and Spending.(Review)
Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Congressional Abdication on War and Spending. By Louis Fisher...not be disappointed by Congressional Abdication on War and Spending. And for those...discussion and to his claims regarding abdication of power. The law stipulates in section...
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The Abdication of the Intellectuals: Sociology, Anthropology, and the Asian Values Debate--or, What Everybody Needed to Know about "Asian Values" That Social Scientists Failed to Point Out.
Magazine article from: SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...intellectual betrayal but of intellectual abdication: of avoiding what should have been...default. Theirs has been a truly fateful abdication. The second work, less seriously recalled...required them to make. Again, the abdication of the social science intellectuals...
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Revealed at last: the abdication secrets buried for 66 years Carry on at the palace: the PM, the car dealer and Mrs Simpson Revealed: abdication secrets too sensitive to PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE Documents deemed too sensitive to publish while Queen Mother lived reveal bizarre antics at palace - and a secret lover
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...out of royal circles for life. The abdication papers, which were kept from public...which resolved the Cabinet to force the abdication. The text of the speech, the existence...reason for the disquiet: "No word about abdication." Baldwin, the Conservative leader...
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Documentary's 'preposterous' abdication claim defended
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 11/9/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...at 50. While Mr Starkey agreed the abdication suggestion was "preposterous", Mr...or impatience into a formal wish for abdication on his mother's part is preposterous...topics of the programme, including the abdication question, were discussed and approved...
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Cambodian king says he will keep silence on abdication
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 8/5/2004; 368 words
; ...Cambodian king says he will keep silence on abdication PHNOM PENH, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian...Thursday that he would keep silence on abdication. "I will no longer talk or write about my abdication after today 's letter," the king said...
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CAMBODIA: SIHANOUK'S SURPRISE ABDICATION STARTS A CRISIS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 10/7/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...fill a vacancy to the throne created by abdication. "The constitution has no articles...often been mentioned for shaping his abdication plans: his failing health and his discomfort...within seven days. "This issue of abdication has created yet another uncertainty...
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Abdication papers: Mystery of Box 24: Where is the Queen Mother's letter? Royal correspondence, expected to be `devastatingly' critical of ex- King's lover, is missing from newly released documents
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/2/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...release of documents relating to the 1936 Abdication Crisis are of interest more for what...said Andrew Roberts, a historian and abdication expert. Speculation among other experts...written in the months leading up to the abdication and said: "With deepest personal sorrow...
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Letters to reveal Queen Mother's role in abdication crisis
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/27/2000; ; 650 words
; ...Monckton of Brenchley, following the 1936 abdication crisis, forms a key part of the archive...one of the foremost historians of the abdication and the editor of the Duke and Duchess...Monckton was a key figure during the abdication crisis and in the life of the Windsors...
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Abdication
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
ABDICATION Renunciation of the privileges and prerogatives...inferior into the hands of a superior; abdication is the relinquishment of an office which...lies primarily in the irrevocability of abdication. Once an office or throne is abdicated...
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abdication
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
abdication in a political...monarch. Some abdications have been purely...However, most abdications have amounted to...Chinese Empire forced abdications were frequent...ending with the abdication of the boy ruler...
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Abdication Crisis
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Abdication Crisis (UK) This crisis in the British...until 3 December, by which time the abdication was virtually certain, as the political...his ministers. Edward announced his abdication on 11 December, and was succeeded by...
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abdication crisis
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
abdication crisis, 1936. A constitutional scandale stemming from the determination of King Edward VIII, who succeeded his father George...
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Abdication crisis
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Abdication crisis See EDWARD VIII .
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