The Duke and Duchess of Windsor after their wedding.

Our website, Great Romances, has a piece on the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, who sparked the Abdication Crisis of 1936, in which the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, refused to allow the King, Edward VIII, to marry Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American woman of shady reputation.

Today, the Windsors would probably be known as the Royal Simpsons, but we’re much crueller than they were then.

Read the story here.

The Duchess of Windsor (formerly the American divorcee, Wallis Simpson), was only reluctantly accepted into the Royal family. Writing in her autobiography, The Heart Has its Reasons, she highlighted the awkwardness of her relationship with the Royal round:

“My contribution to the traditional grandeur of Balmoral was the introduction of the three-decker sandwich as a late supper item, after the movies. This proved so popular that it created a minor crisis in the kitchen through the heavy demand for repeat orders. I am sure that this innovation, so patently mine, hardly endeared the new reign to the household staff.”