“This place ought never to have been dug up.”

—  Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

On seeing the great archaeological finds at Taxila, in Punjab (Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 140)

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king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936 1894–1972

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