Third post in a row, yes, but I realized I didn't explain King Edward and Wallis Simpson!! Yes, well, Edward VIII became king when his father, Charles V, died. As a prince, he had traveled around a lot and... shall we say spent a lot of time with eligible ladies and not-so-eligible women. One of those women was a woman named Wallis Simpson, a previously-divorced American woman who was then married to a British businessman or something. When he became king, he was spending a lot of time with Simpson and breaking protocol and angering everybody. Basically he was courting her even though she was married. Eventually Simpson divorced her husband and Edward decided to marry her, but the Church of England didn't allow him to marry a divorcee, and as king he was the head of the church and expected to follow its rules. The government didn't want it either because they knew that the English people would not accept someone like her as their queen. So Edward abdicated the throne, giving it to his brother, saying (and this is a famous quote so it's not THAT nerdy that I know it), "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love."

That is the story of Edward and Wallis. The end.