[C19fan]

I enjoy ed this excerpt:

"Liberal MP Robert Bernays decided the former King was a typical product of World War I. 'For four years he saw the world crashing to ruins and he thought, like so many of his own age, that all that mattered was pleasure."

Summary of the major consequence of World War I we are still living with today.

[Bodleian_Girl]

Very interesting article.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Thank you for posting this. I read the article, and I trully enjoy stories/history of the Royals.

Of course I remember my late Irish father being ‘mad’ at me for wakening early (and missing school) to watch the Wedding of Diana and whathisface. Affecting his brogue, ‘you’ve gone daft girl...’

[BigEdLB]

LOL - Family trees are odd things. My grandmother’s maiden name was Warfield, just as Dutcess Wallis... My mother related to me all the talk in the family at the time as the very distant cousin (7th) really stirred up England.

[Tijeras_Slim]

You might find this of interest.

http://www.amazon.com/Children-Sun-Narrative-Decadence-England/dp/009461430X

[AnAmericanMother]

Interesting that Lady Diana Duff-Cooper compared Mrs. Simpson to Becky Sharp.

But Becky was pretty. VERY pretty.

Mrs. Simpson was not. Edward just had a thing for older women.

[SuziQ]

"Liberal MP Robert Bernays decided the former King was a typical product of World War I. 'For four years he saw the world crashing to ruins and he thought, like so many of his own age, that all that mattered was pleasure."

They didn't get over WWI before WWII came along and made that attitude even WORSE! I think the decline of Western civilization in Britain was the direct result of that moral malaise.