article_snippet: The six-page letter was written by the future King to married mother-of-two Mrs Dudley Ward, years before the future King gave up the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
article_snippet: The Prime Minster and many others opposed the union because Wallis had already been divorced once and was in the process of divorcing Wallis second husband, so the King chose to abdicate instead of giving up the King lover.
highlights_snippet: The married socialite was the future King's lover between 1918 to 1923 .
  
highlights_snippet: The married socialite became king in 1936 but reign lasted only 11 months as The married socialite abdicated .
  
highlights_snippet: The married socialite up the throne
highlights_snippet: so The married socialite could marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson .