Duke of Windsor

Shri Nathji was always deeply moved by stories of Love. He used to narrate how Shri Babaji Maharaj was very pleased with the Duke of Windsor in England who gave up his throne for the love of a woman. Shri Babaji Maharaj always gave the highest possible status to women.

King Edward VIII (23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) of England left his crown because he wanted to marry the women he loved and give her full status of a wife. King Edward VIII fell in love with Wallis Simpson (19 June 1896 – 24 April 1986) Edward became king when his father died in early 1936. Only months into his reign, he caused a constitutional crisis by proposing marriage to the American socialite Wallis Simpson, who had divorced her first husband, an American Naval Officer. In 1934, during her second marriage to Ernest Simpson, she allegedly became the mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales. Two years later, after Edward's accession as King, Wallis divorced her second husband and Edward proposed to her. The King's desire to marry a woman with two living ex-husbands threatened to cause great alarm in Britain and ultimately led to the King's abdication in December 1936 to marry "the woman I love". After the abdication, the former king was created Duke of Windsor by his brother Albert, who becomes king.  Edward married Wallis six months later, after which she was formally known as the Duchess of Windsor.

The Prime ministers of Britain and it’s colonial territories arguing that the people would never accept a divorced woman with two living ex-husbands as queen.  She was perceived by many in the British Empire as a woman of "limitless ambition", who was pursuing the King because of his wealth and position. Additionally, such a marriage would have conflicted with Edward's status as head of the Church of England, which opposed the remarriage of divorced people if their former spouses were still alive. Edward knew that the government led by British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin would resign if the marriage went ahead, which could have dragged the king into a general election and would ruin his status as a politically neutral constitutional monarch. Choosing not to end his relationship with Simpson, Edward abdicated. He was succeeded by his younger brother Albert. He said that he doesn’t wish to be a King who doesn’t has the power even to choose his own wife. Edward is perhaps the only example of a Monarch who left his thrown in order to marry a women of his love.

We can see the Beautiful movie – The King’s Speech which portrays how adamant King  Edward was to marry the women of his love.