who was the wife of king edward vii?
Alexandra of Denmark
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 In Edward 's lifetime , the Church of England did not allow divorced people to remarry in church while a former spouse was still living . The monarch was required to be in communion with the Church of England , and was its nominal head . If Edward married Wallis Simpson , a divorcee who would soon have two living ex @-@ husbands , in a civil ceremony it would conflict with his ex officio role as Supreme Governor of the Church of England . 

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 Edward 's opponents began to gather around Isabella and Mortimer in Paris , and Edward became increasingly anxious about the possibility that Mortimer might invade England . Isabella and Mortimer turned to William , the Count of Hainaut , and proposed a marriage between Prince Edward and William 's daughter , Philippa . In return for the advantageous alliance with the English heir to the throne , and a sizeable dower for the bride , William offered 132 transport vessels and 8 warships to assist in the invasion of England . Prince Edward and Philippa were betrothed on 27 August , and Isabella and Mortimer prepared for their campaign . 

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 King Edward fell ill in early 1553 . He drew up a document , " My Devise for the Succession " , whose final version of June 1553 was to settle the Crown on his Protestant cousin Lady Jane Grey , overturning the claims of his half @-@ sisters Mary and Elizabeth . Jane Grey was the daughter of Frances Grey , Duchess of Suffolk , a niece of Henry VIII by his younger sister Mary . On 25 May 1553 three matrimonial alliances were celebrated at Durham Place , the Dudleys ' London town mansion . Two of their younger children were concerned : Guildford , aged about 17 , married Lady Jane Grey , while Katherine , who was between eight and ten years old , was promised to the Earl of Huntingdon 's heir , Henry Hastings . A few months later these matches came to be seen as proof of a conspiracy by the Duke of Northumberland to bring his family to the throne . At the time the marriages took place , however , their dynastical implications were not considered significant by even the most suspicious of observers , the Imperial ambassador Jehan de Scheyfye . Modern historians have considered them either as part of a plot , or as " routine actions of dynastic politics " , in the words of David Loades . The initiative for the matches had probably come from the Marchioness of Northampton . 

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 Edward , Prince of Wales was a 49 @-@ year @-@ old married father of five at the time he visited Tranby Croft , and had a history of association with scandals . In 1866 he had incurred the censure of his mother , Queen Victoria , when he became involved with " the fast racing set " , and his betting had " harm [ ed ] his reputation and contribute [ d ] to the widespread unpopularity of the monarchy in this period " , according to his biographer , Sidney Lee . 

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 The King 's desire to marry a woman who had two living ex @-@ husbands threatened to cause a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom and the Dominions , and ultimately led to his abdication in December 1936 to marry " the woman I love " . After the abdication , the former king was created Duke of Windsor by his brother and successor , King George VI . Edward married Wallis six months later , after which she was formally known as the Duchess of Windsor , without the style " Her Royal Highness " . She was instead styled as " Her Grace " , a style normally reserved only for non @-@ royal dukes and duchesses . 
