Divorcee Collection

Page from The Tatler reporting on the marriage of Mrs Stirling (formerly Clare Elizabeth Taylor) of the Gaiety Theatre and Lord George Cholmondeley, second son of the Marquess of Cholmondeley

A rare King Edward VIII pillar box, Lilliput, Dorset, England. He reigned from January - December 1936, when he abdicated to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson. Date: 1936

Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
A colour illustration of Mrs Wallis Warfield (formerly Mrs Ernest Simpson) featured in The Sketch, prior to her marriage to the Duke of Windsor on the 3rd June 1937

Abdcation crisis: sloganed car
Sloganed car in support of King Edward VIII during the Abdication crisis of December 1936. The kings desire to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson split the government

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

A scene in Downing Street during the Abdication crisis
A cyclist sympathetic to the dilemma of King Edward VIII in December 1936, talks to a policeman in Downing Street, London

The Prince of Wales and Wallis Simpson
A photograph of the Prince of Wales and Wallis Simpson near Split, during the royal cruise down the Damatian coast in 1935

Happy Divorcee
Amoureuse - shes worried Fiancee - shes hopeful Mariee - shes dubious Divorcee - shes happy !

King Edward VIIIs letter of abdication
A photograph of the letter of abdication signed by King Edward VIII and his brothers. Edward VIII abdicated from the British throne in 1936 in order to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee

Edward & Wallis Simpson
EDWARD VIII and Mrs Wallis Simpson during the Kings summer holiday to Rab in Yugoslavia in September 1936. The King was to abdicate in December of that year

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