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Edward VIII abdication crisis
In 1936, a
constitutional crisis
in the
British Empire
arose when
King-Emperor
Edward VIII
proposed to marry
Wallis Simpson
, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing a divorce of her second.
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