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In December of 1936, King Edward VIII of Great Britain shocked the world by giving up his kingdom in order to marry a twice-divorced American commoner named Wallis Simpson. The King and Mrs. Simpson: The True Story of the Commoner Who Captured the Heart of a King recounts the extraordinary love story between the popular King and the enigmatic woman that began at a party in England and culminated with the downfall of his reign nearly six years later. The King and Mrs. Simpson: The True Story of the Commoner Who Captured the Heart of a King is a narrative history that utilizes flashbacks, short passages and dialogue from their memoirs. The King and Mrs. Simpson reads like a story and is sized like a novella, but still captures the historical detail that makes their story one of legend.