Front page story from The Daily Express of December 8th, 1936 issuing a statement from Mrs Simpson offering to " withdraw from a situation that has been rendered both unhappy and untenable", this referred to her affair with King Edward VIII of England

Front page story from The Daily Express of December 8th, 1936 issuing a statement from Mrs. Simpson offering to " withdraw from a situation that has been rendered both unhappy and untenable", this referred to her affair with King Edward VIII of England. Wallis Simpson, later the Duchess of Windsor, born Bessie Wallis Warfield, 1896 – 1986. American socialite for whom King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)