Кризис короны: Любовь и крах британской монархии

10 dekabri͡a 1936 goda korolʹ Ėduard VIII podpisal zai͡avlenie ob otrechenii i odnim roscherkom pera postavil tochku pod svoim korotkim pravleniem. Ono prodlilosʹ vsego desi͡atʹ mesi͡at͡sev i zavershilosʹ skandalom i grandioznoĭ mezhdunarodnoĭ dramoĭ. Obrativshisʹ s rechʹi͡u k poddannym, Ėduard obʺi͡avil, chto ne mozhet ispolni͡atʹ svoi obi͡azannosti monarkha bez li͡ubimoĭ zhenshchiny ri͡adom - pechalʹno izvestnoĭ i dvazhdy razvedennoĭ Uollis Simpson. Ego deĭstvii͡a vozmutili britanskiĭ isteblishment i vyzvali mnozhestvo diskussiĭ v samyĭ neodnoznachnyĭ i slozhnyĭ dli͡a politiki moment, kogda ugroza nat͡sizma i blizi͡ashchai͡asi͡a voĭ na kazalisʹ uzhe neizbezhnymi. Opirai͡asʹ na prezhde ne opublikovannye arkhivnye materialy, istorik i zhurnalist Aleksandr Larman podvodit k tomu rokovomu momentu, kogda korolʹ vkli͡uchaet mikrofon i obrashchaetsi͡a k britanskomu narodu. Pokushenie na zhiznʹ koroli͡a, brakorazvodnyĭ prot͡sess Uollis Simpson, skandalʹnai͡a svi͡azʹ s Ribbentropom, protivostoi͡anie s premʹer- ministrom Stėnli Bolduinom i podderzhka Uinstona Cherchilli͡a - vpervye vsi͡a istorii͡a Ėduarda VIII i ego okruzhenii͡a vossozdana nastolʹko podrobno, denʹ za dnem. "Do Ėduarda VIII na trone vossedali samye raznye monarkhi: gnusnye i geroicheskie, nevezhestvennye, tshcheslavnye i svi͡atye. No istorii͡a eshche ne znala koroli͡a, otrinuvshego koronu radi braka" (Aleksandr Larman).

On December 10, 1936, King Edward VIII signed a declaration of abdication and, with a stroke of his pen, put an end to his short reign. It lasted only ten months and ended in a scandal and a huge international drama. Addressing his subjects, Edward announced that he could not fulfill his duties as monarch without his beloved wife, the infamous and twice—divorced Wallis Simpson. His actions angered the British establishment and caused a lot of discussion at the most controversial and difficult moment for politics, when the threat of Nazism and the impending war on Ukraine seemed inevitable. Based on previously unpublished archival materials, historian and journalist Alexander Larman brings us to the fateful moment when the king turns on the microphone and addresses the British people. The attempt on the life of the king, the divorce of Wallis Simpson, the scandalous affair with Ribbentrop, the confrontation with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the support of Winston Churchill - for the first time, the entire history of Edward VIII and his entourage has been recreated in such detail, day after day. "Before Edward VIII, there were all kinds of monarchs on the throne: vile and heroic, ignorant, vain and holy. But history has not yet known a king who rejected the crown for the sake of marriage" (Alexander Larman).