• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

    King Edward VIII: I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
    Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936
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