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42. He would have been a lot happier as First Sea Lord

Sun Dec 24, 2017, 10:29 PM

Dec 2017

Since he was a commissioned officer of the Royal Navy and a veteran of combat.

But to be suddenly made King, and being forced to lead the United Kingdom and Empire, and then confront Hitler and Nazi Germany, I'm not sure there wouldn't be a large number of people who wouldn't increase their smoking to deal with the stress of all that dropped on them when they hadn't been expecting or trained in dealing with it.

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