Front cover of ILN coronation number for Edward VIII

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Front cover of ILN coronation number for Edward VIII

Front cover from the special number of the Illustrated London News, prepared in advance for the coronation of King Edward VIII. Edward was never crowned; in December 1936 he abdicated from the throne in order to marry the American divorcee, Wallis Simpson. The number contains representations of the ceremony that never happened as well a blank pages, awaiting photographs that never appeared.
1936

Media ID 7216911

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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