Posted on 12/10/2010 10:24:24 PM PST by iowamark
Ha! Well, join the club! :-) and FReegards!
Photos dont do her justice. She was very stylish, elegant, charming. Plus had learned a lot of interesting things in China.
Hmmm...you read the Charles Higham bio too?
I flew in from Atlanta, played music in the ballroom there and stayed overnight. What a great place.
The point is, he didnt want the crown and the throne. He wanted to play with his dogs and design jewelry.
Dont know why so many people here have it in for Camilla. That is a true live story.
I don’t like chippies.
When the Germans invaded through the Low Countries and into France, Edward deserted his command and fled to Portugal through Spain. While in Portugal he was put up by a banker friend who was well-connected to the German legation in Lisbon. The German Ambassador and Edward became fast friends and Edward told him the highest British secrets; the Ambassador informed Berlin. Edward even asked the ambassador if the Germans would secure his property in France from harm, and the Germans provided security until they were forced out of France. This was at the time his homeland fought for its life against Germany.
MI-6 kept PM Churchill well-informed of the former King's treason. Eventually, Churchill had a private meeting with King George VI. Churchill told the King about Edward's treason and proposed a choice: either the King would take care of Edward or MI-6 would. Churchill sent the wayward ex-King a message that if he did not return home, he'd be subject to court martial. The King sent a destroyer to Portugal in August 1940 and brought Edward out. He was shipped to the Bahamas and appointed Governor General. Edward held this post until the war in Europe ended.
Edward spent the rest of his life at a chateau outside Paris and several other vacation homes about Europe. He died in 1972.
Both were Nazi lovers. Simpson was rumored to have had an affair with Von Ribbontrop.
They had to ship “the man who would be king” out of the country because the Brits were afraid that he would help the Nazis.
But I digress. No, the reasons behind the abdication were the real ones. In any case, it wasn't just Baldwin's decision. The PMs of all the other Commonwealth dominions (Canada, Australia etc) were all opposed to the King marrying a divorcee as well, because it just wasn't the done thing in those more devoutly christian times....
I read once where he liked to be diapered and put into a baby carriage
“it just wasn’t the done thing in those more devoutly christian times....”
THAT is hysterically funny! The idea that people were more Christian in the past gets lumped with the term, “good old days” — good only because it’s all in the past!
What that means, is that one is less likely to be shocked nowadays by the “secrets” of friends as few are truly discrete and hide their unsavory behavior anymore. People today no longer live lies; less hypocrisy abounds in public. Open lives is more the norm now.
Edward VIII was always a physical, intellectual, and moral weakling and would have been awful as king.
During WW-II, the Brits had to get him out of England and sent him off to be Governor of Bermuda. He had to be kept under supervision as he was a complete self absorbed trouble maker.
BUMPY ride for England. According to one book I read Wallis listened to his broadcast from somewhere in Europe and cried. The author claimed that she didn’t want to be his wife but to continue as his mistress with all the extras that meant. Who knows? She was an illegitimate child whom no man would claim to be her father, according to the author of the book.
Wow! The King sure taught him a lesson!
She must have had the right skill set...
“THAT is hysterically funny!”
Not really. It is a clumsy way of saying that the CULTURE was shaped by religious values. People haven’t changed in their nature since Day One, but when Culture degrades societies collapse.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor met Adolf Hitler in 1937. In 1970 he told one interviewer: I never thought Hitler was such a bad chap.
On December 11, 1936 it shocked the world when King Edward VIII announced that he was abdicating the throne to marry the woman I love.
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