People, Jan. 24, 1972

Untold thousands of U.S. radios were tuned in during the small hours of the morning of Dec. 11, 1936, to hear a relay of the strained voice of handsome King Edward VIII of England announce that he was abdicating his throne because he could not go on "without the help and support of the woman I love." Soon untold millions of U.S. TV sets will be tuned to ABC's version of the royal romance —called, inevitably, For the Woman I Love. Richard Chamberlain and Faye Dunaway make creditable lookalikes for Edward of England and...

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