"Baldwin ruled out the traditional compromise of a morganatic marriage, the sort that Archduke Francis Ferdinand had made when he married Sophie Countess Chotek von Chotkova, whose family was not of royal blood. As Duff Cooper noted, however, the timing of events was not to the King's advantage. He waited until after his accession to the throne to raise the question of marrying Wallis Simpson. Nor did it help matters that he was stridently supported by both the Rothermere and Beaverbrook papers, to say nothing of Winston Churchill, at that time in the political wilderness."
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Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), p. 289
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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer, then Simpson; June 19, 1896 – April 24, 1986) was the American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. Edward wished to make Wallis his queen, but the British government would not allow it because she was divorced. Edward decided to abdicate (which he announced on December 11, 1936) in order to marry her. The couple spent most of their life in France.
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