TIME has provided scintillating coverage of royal romances in the House of Windsor since the reign of Britain's George V and the scandal in the 1930's surrounding his son Edward of Wales and
"the horsy, Baltimore-born Mrs. Simpson." Revisit the highlights of our stories about the British Royals:
With the 10th anniversary of Diana's death on Aug. 31, a host of companies are hoping to separate consumers from their cash. The market may have put a value on every aspect of Diana's life and death, but there are places where her image is still priceless.
From The Princess of Sales
By Jumana Farouky
Jun. 14, 2007
And what, in the end, does she want as the legacy of her Elizabethan Age? In the way of monarchies, one part of the answer is already determined: Charles, then William.
From What Does the Queen Do?
By J.F.O. McAllister
Apr. 14, 2006
Like all caricatures, the view of Charles as not quite connected with the world holds some truth.
From A Right Royal Makeover
By J.F.O. McAllister
Oct. 30, 2005
As Queen Mother, Elizabeth was an implacable defender of the Royal Family against modernity and change.
From A Mum for All Seasons
By Pico Iyer
Apr. 8, 2002
Since Diana's death, when Charles was widely reviled as a clueless emotional eunuch, he has doggedly worked to restore his reputation—which depends crucially on being seen as a good
father.
From Once Upon A Time, There Was A Pot-Smoking Prince
By J.F.O. McAllister
Jan. 28, 2002
The move to bring Camilla out of the shadows, begun even before Diana's death, is just one stone of the foundation the Windsors have begun laying to modernize the monarchy.
From Can Anyone Replace Diana?
By Elizabeth Gleick
Sep. 7, 1998
Her final ceremonial progression through the streets of London raised haunting memories of her first, on a brilliant morning 16 summers
ago.
From Farewell, Diana
By Paul Gray
Sep. 15, 1997
There was little sound for the first two minutes after the crash except for the hoarse wail of the mangled car's horn.
From Death of a Princess
By Howard Chua-Eoan, Steve Wulf, Jeffrey Kluger, Christopher Redman and David Van Biema
Sep. 8, 1997
A lot is riding on the boy who will become King William V. The current generation of royals has been nearly catastrophic.
From Here Comes Wills
By Martha Duffy
Jul. 22, 1996
Speculation about adultery, love affairs, "Dianagate," "Camillagate"—the headlines are hurricanes buffeting a fragile, archaic institution that may not be able to withstand the impact.
From Separate Lives
By Martha Duffy
Nov. 30, 1992
In plan and in prospect the marrying of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 32, to Lady Diana Spencer, 20, the well-born and distinctively dishy commoner, is a fairy tale of present pomp and past glory, a last page from the tattered book of empire with the gold leaf still intact.
From Magic in the Daylight
By Jay Cocks
Aug. 3, 1981
By any standard of rational judgment, the monarchy, of course, is no longer necessary.
From Britain's Prince Charles: The Apprentice King
By Bob McCabe
Jun. 26, 1969
Britain's new Queen, the sixth woman to rule over England, became sovereign without even knowing it.
From Elizabeth II
Feb. 18, 1952
George VI is sound in that which King George V was most sound and King Edward VIII by no means sound—Character—and so is Her Majesty.
From Golden Frame
Mar. 8, 1937
In the entire history of Great Britain there has been only one voluntary royal abdication and it came about in 1936 solely because of one woman, Mrs. Simpson.
From Woman of the Year
Jan. 4, 1937
As presses begin to clatter, the provincial Yorkshire Post historically spits out the gag which has kept 99% of His Majesty's subjects in England and India from ever hearing of Mrs. Simpson, much less hearing that the King is resolved to marry her.
From Edvardus Rex
Dec. 14, 1936
Undenied by any British source the story of the King and Mrs. Simpson last week was blunt and simple. Under English law a man who makes a trip in company with another man's wife, the two stopping at the same hotels, has in fact given the husband opportunity to sue the wife for divorce on the ground of adultery.
From Innocents Abroad
Oct. 26, 1936
The solemn lying in state of the body of George V evoked tremendous homage. Spontaneously Britons of all degrees hurried from Scotland. Wales, the English counties, London suburbs and all parts of the great metropolis to form a line eight-abreast.
From Burial at Windsor
Feb. 3, 1936
A cold fact is that Britain, since the legendary days of beamish King Arthur and His Table Round, has never had a sovereign so uniformly and usefully beloved as King George.
From Silver Jubilee
May 6, 1935
Edward of Wales was recalled last week from Vienna and Budapest where he has been sporting with a mixed party of twelve gay friends featuring charming, horsy Baltimore-born Mrs. Simpson and her aunt.
From Jubilee
Mar. 11, 1935
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