Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

HM, before she was Queen, she was HRH Princess Elizabeth and she might have been able to marry Phillip without there being too much drama.

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I think Wallis would have been a better Queen Consort mainly since she had the grit needed to prop up a king and keep him functional. She would have kept things going and would have provided a valuable bridge between the US and Britain by the time that WWII came around and Britain needed the US to intervene. In fact, ti would have strengthened ties considerably and likely Wallis would have influenced HM to be more assertive and in charge rather than meek and a doormat. She would have been a wonderful example of assertive, regal authority rather than a frightened doormat.

What makes the overthrow of Edward VIII worse, is that he did refresh the monarchy with new energy and zest and it is clear that he was bringing a lot more sophistication and a cultural connection to the outside world. She could have ended up bringing new zest, a higher standard of intellectual expectations, and she might have been an amazing addition that the UK should have embraced. There is no reason that she was terribly unsuitable and it is so insulting that there was something 'torrid' about a king marrying an American. As if there is something horrific about an American. I 'get it' that certain types think Americans are boorish or savages, but we have a kind of class that simply cannot be replicated.

Yes there was. The courtiers from the reigns of previous monarchs didn't want to accept that the Victorian era was over and didn't want to accept that as King, Edward VIII had every right to change things that he didn't like. No courtier had any right to actually disrupt his way of wanting things done and no one had any right to present themselves as the better option (as Bertie/Elizabeth did), and Wallis would have made an amazingly pivotal Queen Consort. She would have made sure that Lilbet and Margaret were both properly educated and it is clear that the Queen Mother would have undermined anyone that Edward wanted to marry if it had been either an aristocrat or a foreign princess. If Edward had married a foreign princess, the QM would have made it clear that she is SO British and therefore entitled to be loved as a fully native British; if it had been an aristocrat, the QM would have ended up doing all she could to find some way of being antagonistic or alienating or hostile. It's not like anything Edward ever did would have been good enough for that viper of a consort mainly since QM didn't want to bend the knee to anyone. There was no way that Edward was going to be given a fair shot at kingship and it's not like Edward ever meant QM any harm. If the Vice President of the US EVER tried to present themselves as a 'better' alternative to the ruling President, said VP would get into serious trouble and would get investigated for possible treasonous activities. What the Queen Mother did was treason, undermining the Crown and she used it as a justification for terrible decisions that were later made. The QM actually believed her own demented, self justifying narrative that she made Edward VIII suffer for something, for the rest of his life, for a position that the QM wanted for herself.

www.wsj.com/articles/the-crown-in-crisis-review-year-of-the-three-kings-11611329268

‘The Crown in Crisis’ Review: Year of the Three Kings
As Edward VIII made his plans for marriage clear, even his bride-to-be worried the price would be too high.

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They were a good couple and quite honestly, it would have been better to just fire the other courtiers and arrest the Duke and Duchess of York for treason for attempting to overthrow the Sovereign. Wallis was from the American upper class and she would never have had a chance at being around the future king otherwise. I am sick of her being described as some climber, as if self made millionaires/billionaires were beneath respect or consideration. It was American bucks that propped up those stately homes and filled the bank accounts of aristocrats who were too lazy to work (or snotty actually) and I cannot get over how Wallis was fundamentally given welcome, received, and eventually accepted. She would have been a perfectly appropriate Queen and her lack of conventional good looks is not something that should have been expected to work against her. Royals aren't supposed to market their looks like some starlet.

Amazing how uppity the then Duchess of York was; had serious issues knowing her place and it is clear that Elizabeth (Not "HM") would have been chronically antagonistic and jealous. The Duke and Duchess of York were not living lives of austerity and were not overburdened with showing up and cutting ribbons and waving to the crowd. This isn't and never will be slave labor. As for Wallis, she was RIGHT to make a break from a wife beater who would have eventually beaten her to death and ended up being happy about it. Wallis (like many women) have a right to make a life for herself and continue on. My grandmother made a break from my grandfather due to his abusiveness.

The QM was a vindictive old fat bitch.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9894103/Wallis-Simpson-dominated-Duke-Windsor-actually-liked-new-book-claims.html



Another book is being released on the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - 'Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duek and Duchess of Windsor.'