Instrument of Abdication, signed by King Edward VIII. The abdication was a result of the constitutional crisis caused by King Edward VIII proposing to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second. He was succeeded by his younger brother, George VI. Dated 20th century

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