Daily Express front page, December 8th, 1936. Covering a statement made by Wallis Simpson from Cannes, France. In early December 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second. The marriage was opposed by the governments of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth.

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