Refers to when the real-life Prince of Wales, Prince Edward, later Edward VIII, visited Japan and met Crown Prince Hirohito, who himself became Emperor Hirohito. (Source: OldTokyo.com) Edward ascended to the throne but abdicated in 1936 in order to marry American Wallis Simpson (represented by Vestal) after having to choose between the crown and marrying divorcee Simpson – Britain's Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his counterparts in the Dominions opposed the marriage, arguing a divorced woman with two living ex-husbands was politically and socially unacceptable as a prospective queen consort.