Eighty-two years ago today, the King announced that be was abdicating.

To marry Wallis Simpson - an American divorcee.


CoE, of which he was head, couldn't countenance such a marriage by the sovereign.

Neither could the government. However, the people seemed rather indifferent.


All seem to have a different stance nowadays.

With an American divorcee being so welcome, to all.


Including the Royal Family, who didn't support Edward.

Just as well though that Ms Markle isn't Catholic...

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Eighty-two years ago today, the King announced that be was abdicating.

To marry Wallis Simpson - an American divorcee.


CoE, of which he was head, couldn't countenance such a marriage by the sovereign.

Neither could the government. However, the people seemed rather indifferent.


All seem to have a different stance nowadays.

With an American divorcee being so welcome, to all.


Including the Royal Family, who didn't support Edward.

Just as well though that Ms Markle isn't Catholic...





I think him being a raving Nazi didnt help.

not only that, the next King has married a..divorcee

Divorce has played a pivotal role in the monarchy - it being the reason for the establishment of the Church of England.

Edward VIII's predecessor - Henry VIII - established it when the Pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.


Now - in the current royal family - divorce is common place, with three of the Queen's children already divorced once.

Although one of them continues to cohabitate with his ex-wife in Windsor - even sharing a holiday home with her, in Switzerland.


Ironically, Henry VIII - and his wife, Jane Seymour - are buried in St George's Chapel, very close to where Harry and Meghan stood.

Even more ironically however, those who are members of the Catholic Church are still barred - by law - from being on the Throne of England.


Catholics still find it virtually impossible to have their marriage annulled - to allow for divorce, and remarriage.

Unlike in the CoE, catholic divorcees aren't allowed to receive Holy Communion - and that church insists on continuing to punish them, perhaps for a youthful mistake of judgment.