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To: celtic gal
Had he remained on the throne, Nazi sympathizer that he was, where would the UK be now?

Excellent point. In fact, some conspiracy-minded historians have suggested that the whole Wallis Simpson business was just a convenient pretext to force his abdication, the real reason being his unsavoury political views. You're right about it being unfair for Elizabeth to blame Wallis for her husband's early death, but that is apparently how she feels, and it's something Margaret would have had to take into account when deciding whether or not to follow the same path as her uncle.

116 posted on 02/09/2002 11:10:49 AM PST by Arkle
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To: Arkle
Quite agree. Mrs. Simpson's morganatic marriage to Edward VIII was stopped by the Government and its head Stanley Baldwin for constitutional and *other* reasons...that he was a loose cannon, silly, too fond of his German cousins...
125 posted on 02/09/2002 11:49:34 AM PST by GoodyBrown
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