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Line 76: ==Queen consort== [[File:Queen Elizabeth Bowes Lyon in Coronation Robes by Sir Gerald Kelly.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Portrait by Sir [[Gerald Kelly]]. [[Crown of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Her crown]] is on the left.]] On 20 January 1936, [[Death and state funeral of George V|George V died]] and his eldest son, Edward, Prince of Wales, became [[King Edward VIII]]. Just months into Edward's reign, his decision to marry the American divorcée [[Wallis Simpson]] caused a constitutional crisis that resulted in [[Edward VIII abdication crisis|his abdication]]. Elizabeth's husband Edward married Wallis Simpson, and they became the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, but while Edward was a Royal Highness, George VI withheld the style from Wallis, a decision that Elizabeth supported.<ref>Letter from George VI to Winston Churchill in which the King says his family shared his view, quoted by Howarth, p. 143</ref> Elizabeth was later quoted as referring to Wallis as "that woman",<ref>Michie, Alan A. (17 March 1941) ''[[Life Magazine]]'', quoted by Vickers, p. 224</ref> and Wallis referred to Elizabeth as "Cookie", because of her supposed resemblance to a fat Scots cook.<ref name="moore"/> Claims that Elizabeth remained embittered towards Wallis were denied by her close friends; the [[Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton|Duke of Grafton]] wrote that she "never said anything nasty about the Duchess of Windsor, except to say she really hadn't got a clue what she was dealing with".<ref>Hogg and Mortimer, pp. 84–85</ref> | |||