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He is forever the king who gave up a throne for love but Edward VIII actually had many titles during his lifetime. By a curious twist of fate and royal tradition, the man who was born as Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David became known by many names —each a chapter in a story as dramatic as any in British history. Though his reign as Edward VIII was brief, his life was marked by…

Tucked away in the quiet, wooded reaches of Windsor Great Park, Fort Belvedere is an elegant 18th-century folly with a place in British royal history far greater than its modest footprint might suggest.While now largely hidden from public view and shrouded in decades of quietude, the estate was once the epicentre of a constitutional crisis that rocked the monarchy – and now, it is once…

Beneath the pageantry of the British monarchy, amidst the gilded thrones and crimson robes, there exists a little-known figure whose title sounds as though it were plucked from the pages of a Tudor drama: The King’s Remembrancer.Little seen and rarely heard from, the King’s Remembrancer is the oldest continual judicial officer in England and Wales, with roots stretching back to 1154 and…