Wedding of Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson

Wedding of Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson
The Windsors (center) on their wedding day with Herman Rogers (left) and best man Edward Dudley Metcalfe (right).
Date3 June 1937 (1937-06-03)
VenueChâteau de Candé
LocationMonts, Indre-et-Loire, France
Participants

The wedding of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis Simpson took place on Thursday 3 June 1937 at Château de Candé in France. The bride was a twice-divorced American socialite whose relationship with the groom, formerly King Edward VIII, caused a constitutional crisis which led to his abdication in December 1936.

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