In 1936 there was a constitutional crisis that plagued Britain, due to King Edward VIII’s engagement of Wallis Simpson, a well-known American woman who was just coming out of her second divorce. The United Kingdom government opposed their marriage because of the religious, legal, political, and moral objections that were raised. Edward was technically the head of the Church of England, which did not allow people to marry unless their ex-spouse had died. Even through all of the unwillingness to accept Edward and Simpson as a couple, he declared his love for her and got married, leading to his abdication in December of 1936.
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