Edward Vlll ascended to the British throne in 1936

Abstract

The search addresses  King Edward VIII 's birth, childhood, upbringing, and his study of  German and French language .Moreover  his enrollment to the Naval Academy as well as well as his assumption of the title ‘‘the Prince of Wales’’, his personal qualities and his participation in the First World War as a soldier to reinforce his country's forces and after the end of the war . Furthermore ,after the end of the war, his  father ,George V appointed him as a representative of his country as a goodwill ambassador. The research also addresses to the issue of  his  accession to the royal throne after the demise  of his father, King George V, on December 20, 1936.  Clearly , he differed from his father in term of  customs and  traditions and established a romantic relationship  with Mrs. Simpson and when he assumed the throne he wanted to marry her, which caused a crisis that did not end until his abdication to  the throne