![]() ![]() When he became King in 1936, only those closest to him knew that this radiant image could not - and would not - endure even insiders were scarcely prepared for the appalling scandal and shock when, a mere eleven months later, his reign abruptly ended with a nighttime journey to France and marriage to an American divorcee. ![]() ![]() He was a popular hero who saw firsthand the hell of the trenches in the Great War, who raged at the miseries of the Depression, who adored jazz, danced the night away and seemed the very embodiment of a new democratic royalty that would rule the greatest empire on earth. He was handsome, eloquent, quick-witted, charismatic, a dazzling foil to his stuffy royal parents. Edward was the twentieth century's Prince Charming. ![]()
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