Dictionary definition: Abdication Crisis

Article: How Queen Mum kept Duke in exile; EXPLOSIVE British and American ...
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  January 30, 2003 ;     643 words ... ... vetoed a speech the King wanted to make to the British people at the height of the crisis over his love for twice-divorced Wallis Simpson, who died in 1986 aged 90. Release of the so-called Abdication Papers by the Public Records Office follows the death ...

Article: Queen Mother's life story to be pounds 5 million drama on ITV ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 29, 2001 ;     623 words ... ... figures of the period including Winston Churchill. The drama will also address the abdication crisis and the Queen Mother's hostility to Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee for whom Edward VIII left the throne, and who she blamed for ...

Article: Royal letters on abdication crisis stay locked away
The Scotsman;  March 2, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... will have to wait until the Queen Mother dies for proof of what she thought of Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee who precipitated the 1936 abdication crisis, it emerged yesterday. Eight Royal letters relating to the crisis, which historians ...

Article: Abdication crisis speech not allowed.(Features)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  January 30, 2003 ;     592 words ... ... public support during the 1936 Abdication Crisis. The King wanted to deliver a ... of marrying American divorcee Wallis Simpson and retaining his throne. But ... PUBLIC: Royal supporter during the abdication crisis in 1936

Dictionary definition: abdication crisis
A Dictionary of British History;      294 words ...abdication crisis, 1936. A constitutional scandale stemming from the determination of Edward VIII 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 ...

Article: Abdication crisis and the reluctant ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... when it was thrust upon her by the abdication crisis of 1936. The Duchess of York had ... closeness between Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, still married to her second husband ... word which had much resonance for Wallis Simpson, while duty was a bible for the Duchess ...

Dictionary definition: Abdication Crisis
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable;      258 words ...Abdication Crisis the constitutional crisis, resulting from the king of England's determination to marry a divorced woman, Wallis Simpson, which culminated in the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936.