Ah, the Duke of Windsor and "THAT woman!" as Lady Firestorm's mother used to call her.
Lady F's mom was a proud Newfoundlander, "The SENIOR British colony!" as she used to call it, and told Lady F that when Edward VIII abdicated in 1937 she and her friends were heartbroken. "Why Mom?" Lady F asked.
"Oh, he was so handsome!"
"HIM? That horse-face?"
"Oh, you don't understand..."
As time went on Mom realized the better man got the throne, and was proud to call George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Later the "Queen Mum") her sovereigns.
It took a world war, though.