HRH Prince Edward, eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of York, afterwards King George V and Queen Mary, was born on 23 June 1894. He was christened Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, but was always called Edward officially and David privately. He was educated at Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges, and was created Prince of Wales on his sixteenth birthday, a month after the death of his grandfather King Edward VII. He was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1912-14 and saw active service with the Grenadier Guards during the first world war in France. He gained great experience and wide popularity through his tours of the Empire during the 1920's, and was awarded many honours in gratitude, including the Honorary Fellowship of this College. During the 1930's he attempted to alleviate the worst effects of widespread unemployment by the development of occupational clubs. On 20 January 1936 the King his father died and he ascended the throne as King Edward VIII. Within the year a constitutional crisis arose from his intention to marry Mrs Simpson, an American seeking divorce from her English husband, and on 11 December he abdicated. His brother Albert, Duke of York succeeded to the throne as King George VI and immediately created him Duke of Windsor. The Duke married Mrs Simpson, who had resumed her maiden name of Warfield after divorce, in June 1937 in France. Through the second world war 1940-44 he was Governor of the Bahamas. The Duke and Duchess spent the following decades between France and the United States, making fairly frequent brief private visits to England. The Duke's health began to fail in 1964. A successful operation was performed that year in Texas for an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta, and during 1965 he underwent several operations on his left eye in London. He died on 28 May 1972, a month before his seventy-eighth birthday, and was survived by the Duchess of Windsor.