Japan’sEmperor Akihitoformally abdicated Tuesday during a historic ceremony in Tokyo, becoming the country’s first monarch to step down from the Chrysanthemum Throne in two centuries. His son, Crown Prince Na
But in 1936, when she was 10, Edward VIII abdicated to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson, and Elizabeth’s father became King George VI. Princess Margaret recalled asking her sister whether this meant that Elizabeth would one day be queen. ”‘Yes, I suppose it does,’...
Often referring to themselves as 'we four', she, Margaret, their mother and father spent lots of time together, uninterrupted by the prospect of a monarch in the family until she was 10 - when her uncle abdicated and her father became king. But Sarah Gristwood, royal historian and au...
A generation later, in a sign of just how far the monarchy itself had come during her reign, the niece of the king who abdicated his throne so that he could marry an American divorceewelcomedthe November 2017 engagement and May 2018 marriage ofHarryto Markle, a divorced biracial A...