Cavalcade (magazine)

Cavalcade was a British weekly news magazine which was in circulation between 1936 and 1950.^[1] It was modelled on the American magazine Time.^[2][3] The first issue of Cavalcade appeared in February 1936.^[1][4] The founding publisher was News Periodicals Ltd.^[5] In 1937 Cavalcade reported that its circulation was 50,000 copies,^[1] but next year the magazine was sold due to financial problems.^[2]

Cavalcade was the only British publication which published the photographs of King Edward and Wallis Simpson in the summer of 1936 taken when they were on holiday.^[6] These photographs made their relationship publicly known for the first time.^[6]