04-12-2016, 05:32 PM
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Re: Abdication Anniversary
I do nothink he would have made a good King.As Prince Edward, he many affairs with with married women
some of whom were in the Aristocracy
He spent most of his time pursuing his own pleasures, and the Government of that time were very worried about him and his lifestyle.
What sort of a man abdicates ,gives up his Crown and Country for a twice divorced women?
Mrs Simpson also had other affairs whilst married as well.
and he followed her round like a little dog when they were married.
It is true they were good friends of Hitler
Many people including me ,wondered what he saw in that very thin masculine looking women.
She once stated that "One could never be too thin,.
or too rich"
I think Edward actually though she would be the Queen had he been allowed too marry her.
There is a new biography out just now about Edward,which divulges things we did not know about him and Mr Simpson.
04-12-2016, 09:11 PM
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Re: Abdication Anniversary
Originally Posted by Tiffany
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I am glad he abdicated, things would be very different if he hadn't, for the worse IMO.
We might have been saluting and saying "Seig Heil" in Jack Boots doing a high kick.
04-12-2016, 09:33 PM
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Fascinating.http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2012/12...iiis-downfall/In December 1936, following the Abdication of Edward VIII, a rhyme circulated about the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Lang:
‘My Lord Archbishop, what a scold you are!
And when your man is down, how bold you are!
Of Christian charity how scant you are!
And, auld Lang swine, how full of cant you are!’
Lang had made a particularly ill-judged broadcast three days after the Abdication, which caused considerable offence. The widespread view of Lang is that he impotently wrung his hands on the sidelines before the Abdication, after which he made his disastrous broadcast. A different view was taken by the Duke of Windsor in his memoirs: ‘Behind [the Prime Minister, Baldwin] … was a shadowy hovering presence, the Archbishop of Canterbury … from beginning to end I had a disquieting feeling that he was invisibly and noiselessly about.’
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