AHC: Her Highness Wallis Simpson in Windsor, Queen of Great Britain

How you can allow to Edward VIII to marry Wallis Simpson as King of UK, with no OTL abdication, so as consequence to let her become Queen ( or at least consort princess)? How it will affected the history of the British and their Empire?

The only limit is to avoid the "restoration" track in case of German victory in WWII, for the rest be free to found a solution...
 
I may not know much on the subject, but from what I do know, I cannot see any possible way this could happen.​
 
Or a substantial amount of handwavium. The only way it can be done, as far as I know, is to prevent her from becoming a divorcee in the first place. She married her first husband in 1916-so let's say he becomes another victim of the flu in 1919, she however survives and remarries as per OTL. Before meeting the future King Edward VIII, that husband dies in some kind of accident. Instead of a divorcee, Wallis Simpson is a widow. Perhaps that would more acceptable, or rather slightly less unacceptable to the British establishment. Of course, from the little I do know about the situation, Edward was not very well liked by the British political establishment. As such, perhaps him marrying an American widow would be equally unacceptable. And yes, I'm murdering butterflies and even logical extensions of events here. The only other option is to somehow prevent the marriages from happening in the first place, and still having her and Edward meet and marry eventually.
 
How you can allow to Edward VIII to marry Wallis Simpson as King of UK, with no OTL abdication, so as consequence to let her become Queen ( or at least consort princess)?
Even if Edward would have been stubborn enough to attempt to go through with it, there were major legal impediments. Before 1949 members of the royal family couldn't contract a civil marriage and the Church of England would not allow divorcees to remarry. Additionally there was uncertainty, whether her first divorce would be considered valid under British law, or whether she would be even granted the second divorce in order to marry Edward.

Wallis Simpson becoming Her Majesty Queen Wallis*is ASB. If Edward would have gone through with the marriage against the advice of the Commonwealth prime ministers, it would be a constitutional crisis of a scale not seen since 1688. Him marrying her non-morganatically was seen as unacceptable.

How it will affected the history of the British and their Empire?
He would have done serious damage to the institution of the British monarchy.
 
Or a substantial amount of handwavium. The only way it can be done, as far as I know, is to prevent her from becoming a divorcee in the first place. She married her first husband in 1916-so let's say he becomes another victim of the flu in 1919, she however survives and remarries as per OTL. Before meeting the future King Edward VIII, that husband dies in some kind of accident. Instead of a divorcee, Wallis Simpson is a widow. Perhaps that would more acceptable, or rather slightly less unacceptable to the British establishment. Of course, from the little I do know about the situation, Edward was not very well liked by the British political establishment. As such, perhaps him marrying an American widow would be equally unacceptable. And yes, I'm murdering butterflies and even logical extensions of events here. The only other option is to somehow prevent the marriages from happening in the first place, and still having her and Edward meet and marry eventually.

She was still an unsuitable character for a future king, both in terms of character and social class- had to be an aristocrat. Even Freda Dudley Ward, of the wealthy merchant class (just like Baldwin) was still considered too low-born by those with decision making power. Anti-Americanism was a minor factor IOTL, but the same objections would exist were she British.
 
Or a substantial amount of handwavium. The only way it can be done, as far as I know, is to prevent her from becoming a divorcee in the first place.

I was going to suggest the very same thing. Better yet, as well as getting rid of her being a divorcee, would be to change her nationality as well. Put a POD back in the pre 1900 and maybe have her have dual-Canadian nationality perhaps which would be looked on much more favourably I suspect.

Of course, by this point, it isn't really the Wallis Simpson of OTL.
 
I was going to suggest the very same thing. Better yet, as well as getting rid of her being a divorcee, would be to change her nationality as well. Put a POD back in the pre 1900 and maybe have her have dual-Canadian nationality perhaps which would be looked on much more favourably I suspect.

Of course, by this point, it isn't really the Wallis Simpson of OTL.

That's the thing. The amount of changes required to make Simpson acceptable would render her name and gender the only similarities to OTL.
 
Even had she been a British subject, the marriage still wouldn't have been allowed under Church Law. As king, Edward was the titular head of the CoE but lacked any real power to change its doctrines. Had Edward plowed through and attempted to change the Church Law or to take any actions that suggested he had any political power would mean the end of the House of Windsor, if not the end of the British Monarchy itself.

Even had she not been a divorcee, she wouldn't have been acceptable to the Royal Family and their social circle & political allies for reasons of class and birth.
 
Wasn't Edward sterile or something, which would lead to Elizabeth becoming Queen in 1972, as opposed to 1952?
 
Church of England would not allow divorcees to remarry.
Isn't the monarch the head of the Church of England?

Have the Church of England be set up so being the head actually gives Edward the authority to change things.
 
Isn't the monarch the head of the Church of England?

Have the Church of England be set up so being the head actually gives Edward the authority to change things.

The de facto head is the Archbishop. Not to mention that Edward was a barely closeted secularist (though respectful of faith and those who practiced it, like the Baldwins) who didn't really care about that part of his duties.

Wasn't Edward sterile or something, which would lead to Elizabeth becoming Queen in 1972, as opposed to 1952?

Given his wide-ranging promiscuity until he became King, quite doubtful. The evidence is much stronger that she was sterile. Though of course without modern med tech like sperm count being available at the time, we will never know for certain.
 
Given his wide-ranging promiscuity until he became King, quite doubtful. The evidence is much stronger that she was sterile. Though of course without modern med tech like sperm count being available at the time, we will never know for certain.
So, either way, Elizabeth would still be on the British throne today.
 
Given his wide-ranging promiscuity until he became King, quite doubtful. The evidence is much stronger that she was sterile. Though of course without modern med tech like sperm count being available at the time, we will never know for certain.

Are there any purported illegitimate children? If not, that might well suggest he was indeed sterile.
 
Are there any purported illegitimate children? If not, that might well suggest he was indeed sterile.

No illegitimate children. His biographer basically says "he was sadomasochistic, but not so much that he'd be so promiscuous if sex were painful and/or unpleasurable." The fact is he didn't need kids until he became King and didn't need any afterwards, while being smart enough to practice safe sex with his many paramours as PoW.
 
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