A Royal Bride for Edward VIII?

Basically I am toying with an idea for a timeline where Edward decides not to abdicate and abandons his plans for a marriage with Wallis Simpson in favour of someone else. Unfortunately I have no idea where to start looking for a potential candidate for Edwards bride and am asking for a bit of help from the board to see if there is anyone obvious I have missed.
 
Any English lady of remotely respectable parentage who wasn't divorced. A title of nobility is a plus, of course, but I think even a commoner would be acceptable. The problem with Mrs. Simpson was that she'd been divorced, and the Church of England back then didn't allow divorce.
 
Any English lady of remotely respectable parentage who wasn't divorced. A title of nobility is a plus, of course, but I think even a commoner would be acceptable. The problem with Mrs. Simpson was that she'd been divorced, and the Church of England back then didn't allow divorce.

To be a bit more precise, Christianity traditionally (because Jesus is rather clear on this in scripture) doesn't recognize divorce: a valid* marriage lasts until the first spouse dies. Mrs. Simpson's problem wasn't the divorce, but having two living ex-husbands: the church considered she was still married to the first one.

And it's not a question of "back then." Even when Charles married Camilla, it was an issue: Charles had been free to marry since Diana died (but not before then), but Camilla's first husband was (is?) still alive. So they didn't get a church wedding.

*note the "valid": an annulment is a declaration by ecclesiastical authority that a marriage was not valid. Modern churches have gotten around the divorce issue by making annulments easier to get.
 
Any English lady of remotely respectable parentage who wasn't divorced. A title of nobility is a plus, of course, but I think even a commoner would be acceptable. The problem with Mrs. Simpson was that she'd been divorced, and the Church of England back then didn't allow divorce.
If it's someone of British ancestry then you'd have to go for someone from the peerage/landed gentry classes - apart from any other considerations Edward simply wouldn't have the opportunity to meet any unmarried women from another class. The only shopkeepers' daughters that Edward is likely to meet are those who have already married into wealth.
 
Hitler, during the early 1930s tried to utlize dynastic politics for his own use: he suggested to the Duke and Duchess of Braunschweig that their daughter Friederike marry Edward VIII. The Duke and Duchess refused to consider the match however, because of the great age difference; indeed, it had been suggested that the Duchess of Braunschweig herself, prior to WW1 and her marriage that she should've married Edward VIII. If Hitler gets his way, it could have some interesting implications.
 
Hitler, during the early 1930s tried to utlize dynastic politics for his own use: he suggested to the Duke and Duchess of Braunschweig that their daughter Friederike marry Edward VIII. The Duke and Duchess refused to consider the match however, because of the great age difference; indeed, it had been suggested that the Duchess of Braunschweig herself, prior to WW1 and her marriage that she should've married Edward VIII. If Hitler gets his way, it could have some interesting implications.

He wouldn't though. There's a reason why Prince Phillip is the only foreign Prince to have married into the Royal Family, and a German Bride would have been the biggest annoyance to the people of Britain since Mary I's marriage to Phillip II of Spain.
 
He wouldn't though. There's a reason why Prince Phillip is the only foreign Prince to have married into the Royal Family, and a German Bride would have been the biggest annoyance to the people of Britain since Mary I's marriage to Phillip II of Spain.

Wasn't Queen Mary German? (I mean George V's wife.)
 
He wouldn't though. There's a reason why Prince Phillip is the only foreign Prince to have married into the Royal Family, and a German Bride would have been the biggest annoyance to the people of Britain since Mary I's marriage to Phillip II of Spain.

Eh? Royal marriages to foreign royals were the norm until, well, after WW1 essentially. (Look at Albert; as German as a beer stein) I wouldn't say that it was the most likely kind of fix-up for Edward VIII, but definetley not completely 'out there'.
 
Wasn't Queen Mary German? (I mean George V's wife.)

She was part of the House of Teck, who were German but domiciled in Britain. I honestly don't think her German ethnicity would be an issue. Plenty of German princesses married into the British royal family and by the 1930s appeasement attitudes ran high amongst the British government and a reapproachment of sorts was occurring between the British royal family and the German Princely houses at this time. Despite a name change, the British royal family was still very much connected to German royal houses, and although relations had been strained by war and remained cool through the 1920s, but the 30s they were beginning to return to normal, until WW2 broke out.
 
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