| DUKEOFWINDSOR | Title created in 1937 for the former King Edward VIII following his abdication (4,2,7) |
| WINDSOR | Duke of ---, title created for the former King Edward VIII following his abdication (7) |
| MITCHELL | Author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 for Gone With The Wind (8) |
| ABDICANT | Term for Edward VIII following December 10, 1936 |
| SIMPSON | Surname of the American socialite who married former king, Edward VII (7) |
| SHEENA | ___ Queen Of The Jungle, comic book character who was created in 1937 (6) |
| TENSE | Imperfect, perhaps - with a couple of 8, following part of 1 (5) |
| WALLISSIMPSON | U.S. socialite who married Edward VIII after his abdication (6,7) |
| CHRISHEMSWORT | Rush actor who plays Thor the former king of Asgard in Thor: Love and Thunder: 2 wds. |
| GEORGEV | King succeeded by his son Edward VIII in 1936 before his abdication in the same year (6,1) |
| GEORGEVI | King who succeeded his brother, Edward VIII, after his abdication |
| CLARENDON | Earl of ___, title created in 1661 for Edward Hyde, Lord Chancellor from 1658-67 (9) |
| TWEEDSMUIR | Baron _, title created in 1935 for the author and politician John Buchan (10) |
| HUNDREDDAYS | The period between Napoleon's arrival in Paris from Elba in March 1815 and his abdication in June 1815 (7,4) |
| EDWARD | King for 10 months and 21 days, before his abdication in 1936 (6) |
| BEACONSFIELD | 1st Earl of ___, title created in 1876 for Benjamin Disraeli (12) |
| PEARCE | Guy -, actor who portrayed King Edward VIII in 2010 biopic The King's Speech (6) |
| JACOBI | Derek, British actor who plays King Edward VIII in the third season of The Crown (6) |
| RENUNCIATIONS | Abdications |
| JUANCARLOS | King of Spain from 1975 until his abdication in 2014 (4,6) |
