Not since King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry Wallis Simpson in 1936 has the monarchy been up against a challenge this steep, royal author Robert Jobson said, per Us Weekly. (The abdication was a seminal turning point in the royal family, a shocking decision made by the then-monarch, who had been on the throne for less than a year.)
“I think people will be talking about this as the biggest crisis since the abdication,” Jobson said on ABC News Studio’s IMPACT x Nightline: The Crown in Crisis, currently streaming on Hulu. “It’s quite vulnerable.”
