On this episode of The Dark Side we look into the life of King Edward VIII, uncle to Queen Elizabeth II, and how his actions ...

Freshly disclosed records from the National Archives in Dublin have exposed how Irish government officials in the 1930s ...

Britain strongly urged the Irish Government nearly fifty years ago not to release key 1936 records about King Edward VIII’s abdication, especially a key conversation between Éamon de Valera and a top ...

One impulsive king, one forbidden love and a decision that detonated the monarchy. The abdication of Edward VIII reshaped the ...

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Winston Churchill played a “venal and unscrupulous” role in the United Kingdom ’s abdication crisis in 1936 when King Edward ...

In chilly mid-December 1936, King Edward VIII suddenly threw in the towel, tossed away his throne and empire, and abdicated. It wrecked his Christmas plans. As the reigning sovereign he'd been due to ...