As a child, Princess Elizabeth, never expected to become Queen as her father was the younger brother to Edward, the Prince of Wales, who inherited the throne from their father, King George V, who died in 1935. Indeed, Edward became King as Edward VIII but he abdicated after a few months and before any coronation because of his refusal to give up the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, who was a divorcee and in those days unacceptable as Queen.