NOUN
- King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972)
How To Use Duke of Windsor In A Sentence
- The Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII, is famous for abdicating the throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
- Her ancestors and relatives include a variety of dukes and barons and her maternal grandmother, Pandora Jones, was a god-daughter of the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII.
- The Duke of Windsor - for years held up as a romantic figure who abdicated for love - shared those sympathies.
- In the last four years alone, no fewer than three auctions have featured billets-doux and other letters written by the Duke of Windsor when he held the titles Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII.
- Like so many other eponyms, the origin of the Windsor Knot is disputed, and the Duke of Windsor himself dismissed that he had invented it.
- He became King George VI upon the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, later duke of Windsor.
- The Duke of Windsor, briefly King Edward VIII before he abdicated to marry Mrs Simpson, also owned a Stannard watercolour.
