Professor Robert Hazell CBE

Robert Hazell is Professor of Government and the Constitution at University College London, and Director of the Constitution Unit in the School of Public Policy. He founded the Constitution Unit in 1995 as an independent think-tank specialising in constitutional reform. The Unit has published detailed reports on every aspect of Britain’s constitutional reform programme.

Prime Ministers and the Constitution

Professor Robert Hazell CBE, 24 April 2013 - Home affairs, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10

...announced his plan to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. The marriage was unpopular with many in Parliament and the Church of England. The Cabinet rejected the King’s compromise solution...

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