Excruciatingly detailed account of the events leading to the Abdication of King Edward VIII, after fewer than twelve months on the Throne as King of the United Kingdom following the death of his father George V. The abdication is brought about my his love affair with an American divorcee, who was deemed not to be a fitting wife for the King. A constitutional crisis was developing and might have seen the government of the day resign, although this was avoided by the abdication. The book records a vital period in the history of the British Royal Family. ( )