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King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were crowned inside Westminster Abbey on May 12, 1937, five months after his brother Edward VIII had abdicated so he could marry divorcee Wallis Simpson.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury Lang wrote to the then PM Stanley Baldwin to tell him that Edward had to leave as soon as possible . Above: Lang and Edward in May 1936.
King George VI was crowned alongside his wife, the future Queen Mother, in Westminster Abbey on May 12, 1937, five months after his brother Edward VIII had abdicated.