Oxford Bookworms: The Love of a King

This book tells the true story of a love affair that caused a constitutional crisis and shook the British Empire. It is the biography of King Edward VIII and his relationship with the American divorcée, Wallis Simpson. The King loved Wallis and wanted to marry her, but British law and the Church of England would not allow him to marry a woman who had been divorced and whose ex-husband was still alive. The book recounts the King's difficult choice: to keep his crown, or to give up the throne for the woman he loved.