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Events on Friday 11 December 1936 1
1936Abdication of Edward VIIIKing gives up the throne to marry Wallis SimpsonEdward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication on 10 December, and Parliament gave it effect the next day, ending a reign of under a year. He chose to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson, whom the government and the Church of England would not accept as queen. His brother succeeded him as George VI.