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TorchTheWitch

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22. All true
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 06:37 PM
Apr 2012

He was entirely self-focused and an embarrassment with his open womanizing and playboy lifestyle. He was never interested in being King in the first place and wasn't shy about who knew it... he used to frequently joke with Princess Elizabeth calling her "Queen Elizabeth" as he had already long been considering abdication even before meeting Wallis. He just wasn't interested in the job and was continually at loggerheads with his ministers about everything that he wanted to do (even the good things like the government helping out the poor miners in Wales which horrified the "1%" government), though it was his Nazi sympathies that were likely the most upsetting thing about him to the government.

The law forbade his marriage to Wallis as both her previous husbands still lived. He even offered to cut any children by him and Wallis from the succession, but according to the law he couldn't unless he wanted to cause a constitutional crisis which he wasn't willing to go that far and do. His choices were either dump her or abdicate, so he chose abdication, which was not such a big deal to him since he didn't really want to be King anyway. And thank goodness he did because he would have been a horror as King especially considering the huge problem of Germany at that time.


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Small point: It was Edward Vlll, not Vll. Suich Apr 2012 #1
Thanks. I've made the correction. snagglepuss Apr 2012 #4
He craves Your Majesty's pardon. He has had a long journey here and miscounted... nt eppur_se_muova Apr 2012 #21
hmm sounds like his "persecution-mania" was entirely justfied lol nt msongs Apr 2012 #2
LOL How true. snagglepuss Apr 2012 #5
Well, the guy did a good thing, at the end of the day. MADem Apr 2012 #3
Well, it's not as if "Windsor" was the original family name jberryhill Apr 2012 #7
Yep, they were a long ways from their native land! MADem Apr 2012 #8
It wasn't the nose she led him around by GCP May 2012 #32
Well, a nose by any other name would smell like....feet? MADem May 2012 #36
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Seeking Serenity Apr 2012 #16
Thanks for the post. I always heard that it was the Nazi stuff that made the powers patricia92243 Apr 2012 #10
Very interesting eridani May 2012 #34
he also was a terrible racist telling government officials of the wrong color persuasion roguevalley Apr 2012 #23
Not the nicest guy in the room, certainly. nt MADem Apr 2012 #25
I remember when he died. Major Hogwash Apr 2012 #26
That was owing to the romanticized "woman I love" speech! MADem Apr 2012 #28
I think the fact he was a nazi had a bit more to do with it. n/t DefenseLawyer Apr 2012 #6
Will no one rid me of this medlesome priest? ashling Apr 2012 #9
Clever you! +1! nt MADem Apr 2012 #11
en garde! roscoeroscoe Apr 2012 #14
The Daily Mail is a sensationalist rag LeftishBrit Apr 2012 #12
oh, poo renate Apr 2012 #13
Nope. Post like yours are part of the best of DU. You know the subject well TalkingDog Apr 2012 #15
You saved me from writing this, thanks obamanut2012 Apr 2012 #17
Also, as you stated, Wallis didn't even really want to marry him obamanut2012 Apr 2012 #18
Didn't they put Prince Albert in a can? jberryhill Apr 2012 #19
You are just spouting the spin that came with the Abdication. The Queen Mother was snagglepuss Apr 2012 #20
All true TorchTheWitch Apr 2012 #22
You know the Nazis planned to make put him and Wallis on the throne obamanut2012 Apr 2012 #24
They never invaded Britain because Hitler believed in Goerring GCP May 2012 #33
I'd wager you have a very nice life! MADem Apr 2012 #27
I agree Bob in CT May 2012 #31
Good for Cosmo that he dumped the Nazis (even if it wasn't his #1 goal); bad he saved the monarchy UTUSN Apr 2012 #29
This author of the biography on this situation is on "The View" now. Skidmore Apr 2012 #30
Edward VIII/David did not want to fight his German cousins. Simple. Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #35
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