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Post by tarathian123 on Mar 21, 2017 16:00:07 GMT
Edward VIII with his spouse the Duchess of Windsor (formerly Wallace Simpson) certainly colluded with the Nazis both before WW2 and during it, and whilst he was Prince of Wales, on the throne, and after his abdication. But should he be considered a traitor? I say most definitely YES. What say you?
PS:- Please avoid his much vaunted romance where possible. I'm sick of reading about it, seeing it on TV. I'm more interested in their treachery to the state.
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Post by louise on Mar 21, 2017 17:53:37 GMT
well, at the time of his abdication, and up until WW2 began, most people were hoping to avoid another war, so his friendliness towards hitler etc would not have been viewed as traitorous by a lot of people. I am not sure what happened during WWw2, i Know the Duke was suspected of nazi sympathies but he always denied it, but then he would i suppose. i don't think he would have been a good kind though. he enjoyed the glamorour, but he wasn't interested in the more mundane side of being a monarch, all the paperwork etc.
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Post by tarathian123 on Mar 21, 2017 18:58:08 GMT
Louise said:Thanks Louise. There's an excellent documentary called "Edward VIII: The Traitor King" available on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHgtUNVlFJcIt will give you details of all his (their) misdemeanours that are perhaps too numerous for me to list here.
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Post by maya55555 on Mar 22, 2017 17:00:03 GMT
Edward VIII ("Uncle David"), was a stubborn dolt working on his own agenda. The "little Grey Men" at Buck House knew David was uncontrollable. Why else would they let him marry sterile Wallace?
Edward was out and George was in.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 23, 2017 0:34:14 GMT
I think he meets the qualifications for it. However, he struck me as more foolish than treacherous if that makes sense.
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Post by tarathian123 on Mar 23, 2017 1:06:29 GMT
Interesting point about Wallace being sterile Maya. I've never read anywhere that she was, but you could be right. She was childless after three marriages. I don't think that the Establishment particularly let the King marry Wallace. No need. He was determined to do so without their help. They left the choice to him. Play the game or abdicate. He chose to abdicate.
Given the couple's coziness to the Nazis, I have to wonder about the 'what if' scenario regarding Hitler's grab for European domination. He wanted the British Empire to continue under a friendly British monarch while he held sway in Europe, and perhaps in Russia too. How would that have panned out if Edward had still been King?
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Post by tarathian123 on Mar 23, 2017 1:17:23 GMT
Makes perfect sense. But to me he was also like a selfish child who never quite grew up. I don't know if you watched the docu I recommended, but in it one of his friends described Wallace Simpson as being the "greatest nanny of all time. She was a nanny". He certainly wouldn't have made a good king. He would have been unconstitutional and a puppet under Nazi domination. The British people wouldn't have stood that for too long.
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Post by hi224 on Mar 26, 2017 18:59:57 GMT
He was an ahole.
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Post by telegonus on Apr 16, 2017 16:41:37 GMT
By all accounts I've read he was a royal embarrassment to the royal family, though he and his wife remained, strangely, as I see it, popular figures among what was then called the Jet Set after the world war. They were in the tabs and glossies like Life and Look magazines.
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Post by shlomotheweasel on May 9, 2017 3:25:54 GMT
Edward VIII with his spouse the Duchess of Windsor (formerly Wallace Simpson) certainly colluded with the Nazis both before WW2 and during it, and whilst he was Prince of Wales, on the throne, and after his abdication. But should he be considered a traitor? I say most definitely YES. What say you? PS:- Please avoid his much vaunted romance where possible. I'm sick of reading about it, seeing it on TV. I'm more interested in their treachery to the state. Not half as much as Churchill.
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Post by tarathian123 on May 9, 2017 5:13:25 GMT
I think you need to qualify and more fully explain that remark.
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