Edward VIII is the uncle of the Queen of England at present. It can be said that if Edward VIII did not abdicate for love, Queen Elizabeth II would not exist in world history.
1936, the grandfather of the Queen of England, King George V, died, and Edward VIII (then the eldest son of the Prince of Wales) succeeded to the throne. However, Edward VIII, who just succeeded to the throne, encountered a rare forced palace in the history of the British royal family. British Prime Minister Baldwin and hundreds of British parliamentarians jointly refused to accept Mrs Simpson as the Queen of England. Baldwin, the leader who was forced into the palace, offered the king two ways: either give up this woman or abdicate voluntarily. Or I'll force you to abdicate!
Such a constitutional crisis, the opposition between the royal family and the government is unprecedented. The problem lies in the woman Edward is determined to marry, Mrs wallis simpson.
Edward VIII was born as fond of his wife as Cao Mengde. Before meeting Mrs Simpson, he had openly had an affair with several married women, which was criticized by his father. When he fell in love with Mrs. Simpson at first sight, Mrs. Simpson did not divorce. This was her second marriage. Although Mrs Simpson later divorced Edward VIII, the Anglican Church refused to accept its leader, and the king of England married a woman who had been divorced twice and was still an American civilian.
Edward VIII chose the maximum compromise, that is, Simpson did not enjoy the title of queen and his children were deprived of inheritance. However, the British government and the church refused to agree, and not only the British government, but also the governments of Canada, Australia and New Zealand in the Commonwealth clearly and openly opposed it.
In the face of royal tradition, political pressure and forced palace, monarchs often sacrifice their feelings, such as the death of Xuanzong Yang Yuhuan, Xianzong's refusal to make Wan Zhener the queen, and Li Hong's refusal to recognize his biological mother. But Edward VIII did not compromise in the end. After 336 days of fighting, Edward VIII became the first king in British history to abdicate voluntarily, and his kingship was entrusted to his own brother, George VI, the protagonist prototype of the film The King's Speech.
George VI treated his brother well and named him Duke of Windsor and Duchess of Windsor Simpson.
If you ask the old British men who is the most beautiful in the royal family, they will not hesitate to say that it is the Queen's own sister Princess Margaret. Beauty cannot be square.
But Princess Margaret, like his uncle, found divorced people more attractive. At that time, Princess Margaret in the fairy tale fell in love with the king's father's military adjutant (the king's adjutant), a colonel in the Royal Air Force who was 16 years older than her, got married and had two sons. Peter Townsend is indeed a hero worthy of beauty, a British ace pilot, with both ability and political integrity, who was selected by the king as a bodyguard.
"Super Old Prince" Prince Charles's wedding melon has been eaten all over the world.
Prince Charles fell in love with his current wife Camilla in his early years. However, due to the opposition of Camilla's family, he gave up letting his daughter enter the palace compound as a crown princess, but married another woman and taught her children.
The heartbroken Charles moved on and soon got a new girlfriend, Sarah. Somehow, Charles finally fell in love with Sarah's own sister, Diana Spencer, 16 years old. After several years of communication, the British people's favorite princess was born, and her popularity almost matched that of the Queen of England.
However, Charles, who was once in trouble, has always lost contact with other people's wife Camilla, and the vigorous underground love affair destroyed Diana's simple view of marriage. Since then, Diana has also started her own "secret activities". After a few years, after both sides had saved up enough "black material" about each other, they finally publicly tore up the divorce. And Diana's death in the rollover accident made Charles wear the world-famous "love rat" hat.
After Diana's death, Charles of "Don't forget me" finally married Camilla, but a few years later, Camilla, who was full of evil spirits, began to divorce Charles, which made Charles once again take to the forefront of public opinion, because Camilla wanted a breakup fee of 200 million pounds, which was a century-long divorce case of the royal family. As a condition of blackmail, Camilla publicly declared that if she didn't give money, she would open a royal shady business.
According to British media reports, the queen finally solved the matter. As for whether to use money or not, it is unknown. At present, Britain recognizes that Charles and Camilla are separated by agreement. It is these two marriages that almost ruined the image of the British royal family and made the internal atmosphere of the Charles family strange. The eldest grandson's mother is gone, and the stepmother is a Millennium demon, so the queen's dissatisfaction with the eldest son reached its peak.
Prince Andrew is probably the best media image among members of the royal family at present, and is said to be the queen's favorite son. After Diana married Charles, Diana, as the eldest sister-in-law, introduced her good friend, the other Sarah, to Prince Andrew, and things went smoothly. With the help of eldest brother and sister-in-law, Andrew and Sarah got married.
However, after the marriage, the British paparazzi told Prince Andrew with practical actions that you were covered with green grass. Sarah, whose background is not hard enough, was retaliated by the British royal family. After separation and divorce, Sarah's life has been very difficult, and she once relied on variety shows and "Tucao Conference" as a comedian.
Prince Andrew relented. After asking his mother many times, Andrew returned to the royal family with his ex-wife for support, but it didn't last long. In a British media "fishing law enforcement", Sarah exposed the scandal of the royal family at a asking price of 500,000 pounds. The Queen of England was angry again and demanded that Andrew immediately expel the political broker "two-faced man" from the palace. Andrew, on the other hand, still loves his ex-wife and still disobeys his mother's orders in the name of "all for the children, all for the children".
Like her second aunt, Princess Anne has a soft spot for soldiers. Under the arrangement of the royal family, Princess Anne married a royal cavalry lieutenant. However, the good times did not last long. Princess Anne took the old path of her second aunt, fell in love with Tim Lawrence, the attendant of the Queen's military attache, and had an extramarital affair.
In the end, Princess Anne realized her second aunt's dream of love, and the story of "imperial bodyguard" changing into "golden knife" was first produced in the history of British royal family. But for the sake of the royal family's face, this "Golden Knife Ma Xu" has no actual birthright, let alone knighthood.
The excitement is not over. Princess Anne began a magical sadomasochism after breaking the spell of her second aunt. Who is the target of abuse? Bowles, who is also a soldier, has reached his old age. And this Bowles is the first husband Camilla chose after choosing Charles. Princess Anne claimed that this was her first love.
I wonder if you can turn around the following summary:
At that time, Princess Anne's first love and ex-wife became her eldest sister-in-law.
Later, Princess Anne hoped to marry her eldest sister-in-law's ex-husband.
But this matter was suppressed by the queen in the most severe way. Princess Anne's divorce failed, but the marriage existed in name only.
I don't know if you have calculated it here. Among the immediate family members of Queen Elizabeth II, she witnessed the romantic uncle, the century divorce of the eldest son, the divorce of the second son, the pain and divorce of the younger sister, the divorce of the daughter, and many jaw-dropping gossip plots.
The above is not to mention the more or less romantic debts of her husband, Prince Philip, and the plot of her grandson leaving the royal family and her two granddaughters fighting in court. How many seasons will this epic Gong Dou play be filmed in the future?
The married life of the family is a mess. The Queen still tries to ask questions about state affairs from time to time, such as the Cold War, the hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, Northern Ireland, Falklands, Hong Kong and Iraq, the political struggle when Britain joined the European Union in the early years, the public's dissatisfaction with the royal family's expenses, the farce of Britain's just-concluded withdrawal from the European Union, the struggle between successive prime ministers and the royal family, and the arrogance of the United States.
However, in the face of many troubles, the queen has also done an earth-shattering thing: to live to the present. It is not easy.