Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Abdicate

Abdicate: verb - castoff, discard; relinquish sovereign power formally; renounce a throne, highoffice, or function.
'When Edward VII decided to abdicate, in order to marryWallis Simpson, he caused a constitutional crisis in Britain and was neverfully forgiven by the rest of the royal family.'
Picture: the picturesque village of Staithes, on the North Yorkshire coast.