The future King Edward VIII as a midshipman in HMS Hindustan Size:L: 75 x 60cm Tsar Alexander I

Tsar Alexander I

View of St Giles without Cripplegate with figures burying bodies in the aftermath of the plague

View from Cheapside of the royal procession on the day of Queen Victoria's visit to the City

February 23

The future King Edward VIII as a midshipman in HMS Hindustan Size:L: 75 x 60cm Tsar Alexander IThe future King Edward VIII as a midshipman in HMS Hindustan, c1910. Edward (1894 1972) succeeded his father George V to the throne as King Edward VIII in 1936. He ruled from ruled 20 January 1936 until 11 December 1936, and abdicated in order to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee, thus heading off an impending constitutional crisis. Illustration from George V and Edward VIII, A Royal Souvenir, by FGH Salusbury, a souvenir book published as