“You all know,” he said, “the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne… But you must believe me when I tell you that 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. And I want you to know that the decision I have made has been mine and mine alone. This was a thing I had to judge, entirely for myself, the other person concerned has tried up to that last to persuade me to take a different course.”


- taken from the abdication speech of King Edward VIII, the first British royal novelty who gave up the throne to marry the woman he love, American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson (December 11, 1936)


i just hope she was worth it...