Six months after shocking the world by abdicating the British throne, the Duke of Windsor—formerly King Edward VIII-- married Wallis Simpson on #ThisDayInHistory in 1937. The Duke claimed he could not carry out his duties as king “without the help and support” of the woman he loved, a 41-year-old American who had been married, divorced, and married again by the time she met Edward. With the British government, the Church of England, and his family all opposing their marriage, even after she divo