Edward VIII's letters to royal fan accusing Britain of trying to 'humiliate and misrepresent' him
Daily MailAuctioneer says comments reminiscent of those made by Harry and Megan Edward vented his frustrations to avid fan Lillian Boraston in a series of letters He and American divorcee Wallis later moved to France where they lived in a villa King Edward VIII's letters to a royal fan accusing Britain or trying to 'humiliate and misrepresent' him and Wallis Simpson - in what an auctioneer calls 'a parallel of today's Royal Family' - are set to fetch £500 when they go under the hammer. The controversial monarch caused a constitutional crisis when he abdicated the throne in 1936 so he could marry the American divorcee Edward, who was then the Duke of Windsor vented his frustrations to avid fan Lillian Boraston in a series of letters sent as he travelled around the world in the months after his abdication How King Edward VIII caused a constitutional crisis when he abdicated the throne George VI, known as the 'reluctant king', was crowned following his brother Edward VIII's abdication. Edward, who was then the Duke of Windsor vented his frustrations to avid fan Lillian Boraston in a series of letters sent as he travelled around the world in the months after his abdication. Lillian Boraston who lived in Surrey, was a keen royal fan who regularly sent letters and poems to Edward Auctioneers say the 'parallels with today's Royal Family are clear to see'.
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