Changing Times
This decision meant his younger brother was going to get the throne, so the Duke of York became King George VI. A year later, Edward and Wallis got married. What happened back then still hangs over the Royal Family.
Reigning Monarch
Divorce is something that the royals still treat with much more caution than the non-royals do. This is probably the reason why the Queen missed the religious part of Charles and Camilla’s wedding ceremony in 2005.