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Abdication

Name: Abdication – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

1Records

1936Date range

1Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1936

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill1936

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Supports Edward VIII during the abdication, loses much political support

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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