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On December 11, 1936, after ruling for less than one year, Edward VIII became the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne – he wished to marry a divorcée, Wallis Simpson.
Karsh photographed the married couple in 1971, one year before Edward, then Duke of Windsor, died.