Royals from around the world have stepped back from duties or given up their titles or the throne, be it for love, scandal or ...

The club-footed George McMahon was arrested on a hot summer's day in July 1936 after raising a revolver and aiming it at King Edward VIII as he rode by ...

A British King set an example that love conquers all as he left the throne in a historic decision that forever changed the ...

In 1934, Edward VIII began an intimate affair with Wallis Simpson, who was married at the time. Even if she hadn’t been married to someone else, the American-born divorcee would not have made an ...

It's not happened at Wimbledon since Edward VIII was king and Prince George and Princess Charlotte are front row.

Read PEOPLE's exclusive excerpt from royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith's new book, George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy Central Press/Getty Prince Edward and Prince ...

A newly discovered picture of King Edward VIII, who abdicated in 1936, shows the portrait was reused -- after careful "editing" by artist Albert H Collings -- to show his successor, King George VI.

King Edward VIII in naval uniform before his abdication in December 1936. Hulton Archive/Getty Images. ... who took the name of King George VI to honor his father.

Months later, the uncrowned Edward VIII abdicated over his love for American divorcee Wallis Simpson, and the Duke of York became King George VI. He kept to the same coronation date ...

"It was, you know, breaking his heart…Not having that title for his wife was a slap in his face," the Duke of Windsor's former nurse says in the new series The Real Crown: Inside the House of ...