The future King Edward VIII as a midshipman in HMS Hindustan Size:L: 75 x 60cm 2nd February 1976

2nd February 1976

Kirat-Arjuna

People at the entrance to a city

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

The future King Edward VIII as a midshipman in HMS Hindustan Size:L: 75 x 60cm 2nd February 1976The 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