erupted in the british empire, king edward announced that he intended to marry a married american , wallace simpsonpapers wrote that this woman was the mistress of the german diplomat joachim von ribbentrop, who at that time worked as the german ambassador in london, ribbentrop regularly sent wallace a bouquet red carnations, and called edward himself an english national socialist. british prime minister stanley baldwin put edward before the choice of either the throne or simpson in december 1936, edward the eighth abdicated in favor of his younger brother after the abdication, he received the title duke of windsor. the reign of edward vii lasted 10 months and 3 weeks. in fact, it seems that not only was the question of a wife important, in general, apparently, the british establishment was not entirely satisfied with the personality of the monarch, in contrast to the one who came after him 50 george. there was what was needed, he was a man who was not going to climb anywhere under any circumstances, and edward's position , firstly, he took a rather active position. that is, he, apparently, was goi