As the Abdication crisis reached boiling-point in the dying days of 1936, was Wallis Simpson ready and willing to be bought out of her forthcoming marriage to King Edward VIII?
Neither Megan nor Wallis were cut from the cloth of traditional royal brides. Svelte, American and divorced they were women who met their princes as successful well-established adults
A.N. WILSON: Scobie has entitled his ridiculous book about the Royal Family Endgame. Both in its pages, and on the apparently ceaseless round of TV interviews, he is making big claims.
Queen Elizabeth II lived for 96 years and reigned for over 70 of them. These are some of the events during her lifetime - some are personal are some are world events. Just put them in the order in which they occurred.