The future King Edward VIII as a midshipman in HMS Hindustan Size:S: 30 x 25cm 'The industrious apprentice a favourite

'The industrious apprentice a favourite

Sir John Balchen and General Guest

who knighted him in 1585

Clarence Hatry

The future King Edward VIII as a midshipman in HMS Hindustan Size:S: 30 x 25cm 'The industrious apprentice a favouriteThe future King Edward VIII as a midshipman in HMS Hindustan, c1910. Edward (1894 1972) succeeded his father George V to the throne as King Edward VIII in 1936. He ruled from ruled 20 January 1936 until 11 December 1936, and abdicated in order to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee, thus heading off an impending constitutional crisis. Illustration from George V and Edward VIII, A Royal Souvenir, by FGH Salusbury, a souvenir book published as