He abdicated the throne for the woman he loved.  Poor self-indulgent schmuck and self-centered schmuckess.   Not to speak ill of the dead, of course, but, according to Andrew Morton, this was not the greatest love story of all time, not even since Liz Taylor and Richard Burton.   For me, this was a good read at the right time.

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