<P> In 1936 , a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King - Emperor Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson , an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second . </P>
<P> In 1936 , a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King - Emperor Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson , an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second . </P>
who abdicated the throne to marry a commoner
who abdicated the throne to marry a commoner
Edward VIII
Edward VIII