Abdicate: verb - cast
off, discard; relinquish sovereign power formally; renounce a throne, high
office, or function.
‘When Edward VII decided to abdicate, in order to marry
Wallis Simpson, he caused a constitutional crisis in Britain and was never
fully forgiven by the rest of the royal family.’
Picture: the picturesque village of Staithes, on the North Yorkshire coast.
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