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Waiting For The King’s Speech – Dec. 9, 1936 – Past Daily Weekend Reference Room – December 9, 1936 - BBC/NBC - Alistair Cooke and Bulletins from London - Gordon Skene Sound Collection - Ironically, it was this day (December 11) eighty years ago, that King Edward VIII of England abdicated the throne to marry Wallace Simpson, an American divorcée and a "commoner". The move...