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Bernard Shaw play in Evening Standard 'influenced abdication'

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20061116
Author:AMAR SINGH

A FORGOTTEN play by George Bernard Shaw which was published in the Evening Standard may have influenced the abdication of Edward VIII.

The claim is made by biographer Stanley Weintraub in History Today.

The King, The Constitution And The Lady was a playlet written in 1936 by the playwright and socialist thinker.

The drama revolves around a discussion involving a king, an archbishop and a prime minister, who are debating the monarch's wish to marry an American divorcee - overtly drawing direct parallels with King Edward's reallife love for Wallis Simpson.

The affair rocked the royal family ...

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