The Secret Diaries Of Edward VIII's Wife | Wallis Simpson | Real Royalty
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2019
- This film examines recently discovered letters written by socialite Wallis Simpson that reveal her secret love, and chart her fear as she found herself becoming trapped into marrying King Edward VIII.
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Thank you Edward! If not for you, the world would not have had Queen Elizabeth II.
……yes, she would’ve been Queen when KEVIII died, as he & Wallis had no children, she was next in line………
Are you attempting to use ellipses? Or is your comment infested with ants?
That really isn’t true. Edward never had children so she was always second in line.
@@kathleenwyatt2433 I don’t think so. A British monarch must be a member of the Royal Family by birth and not by marriage. 💡
I don't know what the attraction was in Wallis Simpson, but Edward the eighth would NOT have been the leader through WWII that his brother proved to be.
Exactly! He was actually a sympathizer of the Nazis!!
His wife really. She was the epitome of the saying “behind every great man is an even greater woman”.
@@soapiesoap5649 I agree! Elizabeth (the Queen Mother to be) was devoted to him and steadfast in her support. A very brave woman.
I think she looks very intelligent and charismatic. The kind of woman a man who could have any beauty would find interesting.
@@dailybls The woman was a narcissist and used Edward and embarrassed him. Read the accounts and the PBS special on the subject made it clear that she was not a kind person.
This was not a beautiful love story between Ernest and Walllis. This was a story of two social climbers who got in way over their heads, and one managed to get out while the other didn’t. David was just as selfish and manipulative as Wallis and Ernest. In the end, Wallis married a weaker version of herself, someone who was completely self-centered.
Meghan & Harry !
" Oh Clarice, you really need to go out more ... have some fun, yeah!"
Excuse me …..social climbers ??? true for Wallis…..but David was King and chose to fall off the ladder. The man looked pitiful next to this vixen who spend her life humiliating him while he obviously was relishing it.
This is what awaits Harry……..Megan holds him by his nuts and their produce…..his children.
She will dump him and he will go back to the UK like a sorry sod.
@@meghanelaraby277 you really are full of it aren't you? Just because the media and the royal insiders have span a false narrative about Meghan you have fallen for it, smh
@@meghanelaraby277 Not at all, if you want a fair comparison doit with Camilla and Charles.
I believe is also why the Queen worked at the end of her days.
And de boys who had a father more interested in his Mistress than in their little boys or his adorable wife.
Camilla is the real climber here!!
She seemed to be the type of person who was always looking for something else, even when she got what she wanted. After she got what she wanted, she wanted what was just out of reach. That makes for a very lonely, unhappy life. I've seen too many of these people who think this way. That is why there are so many unhappy people in this world. If I could just have . . . . And the beat goes on
How very true!!!
In the years while he was growing and his father was still king, his parents remarked that they thought he wasn’t fit to be king. His character was weak and the intelligence was not there. But he was the first born. His parents had incredibly good insight, he proved them right.
I think he was similar to Charles in his thinking regarding housing, and how the monarchy should be, but he was still a playboy who didn't have a care in the world till he was king.
Edward's abdication saved Europe from Hitler's devastating evil as Edward favored Hitler's point of view.
Just wanted to add that it's not always the case that the parents are right. Queen Victoria & Prince Albert felt the very same of Bertie but Bertie was a much beloved king & though still a ho jo, he was a very good king.👊
@@rosemarykriegel3226 Not Edward so much as his wife! She was photographed with Hitler so who knows what the friendship was like. I’m guessing she gave the impression she was going to be Queen. The British prime minister then was against the marriage. So Edward took the hint.
What I fail to understand is why was he paid millions to live his do nothing lifestyle while Britain to this day refuses to pay reparations!!!! Plantation owners were paid over generations. People are still waiting.
Phillip hung around the Nazis too, all his sisters married SS men.
@@twingytwango6971 prince Philip joined the Royal Navy in 1939 when he was only 18 years old and before he met Princess Eluzabeth. I'm pretty sure that disqualifies him as a Nazi sympathizer. King Edward VIII, however was very much a Nazi sympathizer in all of the articles I could find. He believed Hitler was the right leader for Germany and remained friends with him, even giving him the full Nazi salute when Hitler visited England.
Simpson’s letters to her husband seeking his sympathy and understanding for divorcing him, while claiming to still love him show what a master manipulator she was. If she didn’t love Edward why did she stay? She craved the drama, make no mistake!
Exactly 💯
Narcissist in its truest form!
She wanted the money and status. They had tons of money and he left everything to her. Not sure why she had to beg the Queen for a monthly allowance after he died, but she did.
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The black & white photo of Wallis looking out the window with a black pigeon on the sill is eeriely haunting. As if she's not looking outside but inside at the folly and mistakes of her youth and what she lost.
😱💯WOW! You have a way with words, Ceil.
Yes I noticed that picture too it’s very very eery your right . But was it a black pigeon or a black crow I thought it was a crow !?
No i checked the photo again . Your right it’s a pigeon . 😳😏😂🤣
It's ironic. The bird is free and she is caged. That's how I see it. She definitely looked melancholy.
@@mfinn6589 mfinn……, I have a personal quote I’ve been saying for years now: Be careful what you wish for ~ you just may get it.
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I worked with someone who knew the Duke and Duchess very well and he told me that she treated him terribly and would humiliate him in front of people and at parties she was a terrible woman and he was a very unhappy man.
The more I read the story and the comments the more I am amazed at the carbon copy of Wallis and HER dimwit, the more it is mirrored in the current goings on of that
other American fame and money hunting women, who leads her husband around
on a dog leash and embarrasses him and denigrates him while using him.
Get out Harry, I just hope you read this.
@@marycarver1542 same thoughts. The RF men through the years have shown struggles to choose their partners
@@marycarver1542 I give that marriage another 5-7 years at most until the spell runs out on Harry
I read something something similar and that he would cry like a little boy when she used to mistreat him in from of people at parties the gave in their chateau, or other places they were invited to. I think he was looking for a mother type of person when he married her.
@@newas233Thank God William chose well. He took his time and chose well.
What a love story. Edward’s love for Wallis, Ernest’s love for Wallis... Wallis’s love for Wallis.
LMAO!
Sounds like a love story of nearly every man - they always love themselves, first and foremost.
Lol 😂😂😂 omg hilarious, way too funny!!! Girl couldn't make up her mind, bet she didn't think things would turn out the way they did.
😆😄😂🤣😁
Especially Wallis's love for Wallis.
How ironic that Edward VIII claimed that this affair was a love story when really his brother George VI was the one who truly was blessed with a loving and productive marriage.
Yeah it's pretty scary edwards version of love shows how sick he was.
Actually he had a mistress, the same mistress for a long time until he became King and changed many things.
I am not sure that many, including her soon to be son-in-law, PrincePhilip, would agree with those of Elizabeth's friends who put Elizabeth II's mother on a pederstal.
@@kimmccabe1422 Are you talking about Thelma Furness, daughter of the diplomat? If so, Thelma was Gloria's twin sister (Vanderbilt jeans and other household accessories and her son, news anchor Anderson Cooper), and it was Thelma's idea for Wallis to keep the "little man busy" while Thelma joined her sister in New York during a custody suit brought by Gloria's husband, was a job that Wallis did well. In fact by the time Thelma returns she has taken her place in Edward's arms.
@@janicesnyder9305 thx FYI
Wallis in Filipino/Tagalog word “Walis” means broom. She certainly swept the Prince off his feet and swept everything under the rug making an appearance of a happy union. Her name lived up to its meaning. What a sad story for these people.
Salamat - Thank you
I am going to rewrite your last sentence.....What a sad life for these SICK people.
I adore learning silly wonderful linguistic things like this. Language is so fun. Thank you for sharing the pun!🎉❤
Wallis sure knew few sex tricks from China how to deal with men...that why Edward get exited about her ,,goodness,, and rood behaviour toward him that make him feeling different, easy with woman he was thinking that how love looks like... he never experience previous because hall nation had admire him.
She made "this monumental error" from greed. She and Ernest were a pair of grifters that had worked hard to put her into the Prince's life - and she got what she got.
Does this ring any bells?
I feel sorry for people who get married and become a parent instead of a partner. It’s lonesome.
I was one of them but never realized it until I was paralyzed in a car accident...he was driving. As soon as I was no longer taking care of all the duties of the household and not holding the better job....he found someone older with money and walked out on me and our 4 year yr old son.He was a Peter Pan and left 2 when she withheld the money and found an even older wife who he stayed with for 27 years til he died of a heart attack 3 yrs ago. I learned my lesson and stayed happily single since 1985.
I'm going through this currently. It's very lonesome.
@@TheMightyBlackPearl so sorry to hear. Get into marriage counseling immediately. Remember the only person you can change is you. Don’t sell yourself short. You deserve an equal partner.
@@thatjayne thank you! We're in counseling, but I'm the only one seeming to put the work in. I don't want to throw 7 years of marriage down the drain, especially when our daughter is only one. I don't want her to come from a broken home, but I also don't want an unhappy marriage to break her either. It's just a very dark time right now in my life. I want my family to be happy, but most importantly my daughter deserves to live a happy life. No child should pay for their parents mistakes or pain.
One has to be ready to be 1/2. A parent to your love one because that’s the reality of marriage; like it or not.
Edward was more keen to run away from his duties, this woman gives him a great excuse.
He put her in the prison he wanted to escape.
@@nancyvillines4552 She would have gladly been caged in gold.
@RJJacob agree to disagree.
Read my mind
Sounds like a more current couple that we all know of and wish we didn’t
I nearly died laughing when he said Wallis " Had a face like an old boot!"
hehe I wonder how he really feels
She did she wasn't good looking my grandma said at the time the British public thought she was ugly
Often, I have seen women enter a room with a presence! Looks don't matter! She had it all. No matter what people say, she was a most fascinating woman.
@@michelles2299 ........she has NO soft womanly features.......just hard ones.........probably what the P.O.W. wanted!!
@@michelles2299 I personally thought she was handsome!
And ... this is exactly why I don't keep a "secret" diary 😇
Correction - -she was not Edward VIII's wife, she was the wife of the Duke of Windsor.
An important distinction, indeed.
The fantasy is always better than reality, it's all fun and games until stuff gets serious.
That's so true...
There are many ways to be productive
Ask Harry's wife! Her imagination of being a Disney princess crashed quickly with reality of duty and service with rules.
@@teresaamanfu7408 sorry, I'll disagree. Listen to her early words.
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So Edward was deeply infatuated with Wallis, who didn’t love him, and Wallis genuinely loved Ernest, who didn’t love her nearly as much she did.
Sure, many marriages were of convenience. This one was a big one. Fascinating couple still to this day.
Love Ernest? Really? Wallace amassed AQUAINTANCES, not real friendships, especially not with other women, who a girl would normally turn to. Wallace was always about...Wallace. Ernest was, literally, the only ear she could bend...and she already knew how to play him...LOVE HIM??? SERIOUSLY??? This declaration could not have been ...safer. ensuring continual emotional support...Woe, poor me...
As kinky Friedman and Willy Nelson say::: we have careers in country music because most people aren't with their first choice.
Edward lacked a tender mother, a guide and a woman embodying this. Just as Charles needs Camilla instead of a young girl.
@@susannabonke8552 I don't think Charles necessarily needed a mother figure in his wife, rather someone on his level he can share with the things he enjoys like gardening, hunting etc, and also able to provide an emotional support and be his sounding board. An extroverted girl with abandonment issues who was extremely emotionally needy herself and couldn't stand life in country was simply a terrible match.
And with all his issues (and they are many), Charles has nothing on Edward. The more I read about this couple (Edward and Wallis) the more I am horrified by everything about their personalities. I really can't find any redeeming qualitiy in either of them at all other than he made the right decision to abdicate.
My grandparents bought the house where Wallis stayed so we were brought up to feel invested in this story. And I am ridiculously pleased that your film of the beach huts is in exactly the right place. As our old home has been demolished you had to use next door as your position showing a very thorough research on your part. Wallis found the house very cramped I did not depends on whether you think 6 bedrooms is big or small lol
Most reasonable, non-snobby people would consider a 6-bedroom house very very nice!
There is a museum of her here in Baltimore. I would love to go and check it out
@@mandahjordan4307 Isn't Wallis Simpson buried at GreenMount Cemetery on North Avenue, Baltimore, MD with her family or is she buried next to Edward VIII?
@@Rachel71 I am fairly sure that she was buried next to her husband within the Windsor estate
@@Rachel71 She's buried at Frogmore at Windsor with Her Husband. The Queen even attended her funeral in 86. That was the year I was born oddly
Things happen in ways that make no sense to us but Elizabeth has been a phenomenal queen.. never would’ve happened had this not happens
Elizabeth would still have been Queen. Her uncle couldn’t have children. Mumps . Yes, she is an amazing queen.
IT'S CALLED FATE ---ELIZABETH TURNED OUT TO BE QUEEN
@@irislai7821 Divine appointment..... God has his eye on Queen Elizabeth II.... She is the apple of His eye.....
How is she phenomenal? She can’t have an opinion about anything really and the “gray men” always told her what to say, how to say it, etc. nothing was ever from her own thoughts and mouth. So tell me.. what has she done?
@@CrustyUgguhhhhh.. where do you get your information? Might want to check it
Her being a social climber got her trapped in her marriage to a King. She can’t get out of this situation.
Megain
No she was set to
Inherit 2 million from uncle and she did not due to her choice. She would have been one of the wealthiest woman in the world. And she never spoke bad on the RF. No Megan for sure
@@veronicajean3612 Wallis was kissing buddy with HITLER. what do you all think would have happened if Edward was on the throne and married to Wallis? of course, some of these royals were bossom buddies to the Nazi's, Phillip for example. All his sisters were married to Nazis. Thankfully the British Parliament was having none of this. They knew where it was heading. Edward was chased out of England.
@@latinaalma1947 No comparison. Wallis was mistress to heir to the throne. PH is 7th in line, his status it is really insignificant.
Former King. A Duke.
When she married he was no longer King.
He left the crown for her and she didn't even loves him
Wallis got herself into the situation through greed and arrogance. As his mistress she was enjoying all the gifts and jewels she received and exerting power over others and enjoying that immensely. She was awful to Elizabeth who became the queen consort and then queen mother. She messed with the wrong woman and later paid the price. Basically she was playing a game that backfired on her.
I can understand this too but still..quite a story
Hmm...
Correct,when he was dieing,he called out for Wallis and she Never came,this was the account of the nurse!!!😳🇬🇧
Well said. Who knows what interlopers and bad people are in the Royal Family that are hidden from the public.
Does this not remind you of anyone. The difference being is that cringe couldn't get ginge to the alter fast enough. Like a little puppy, he followed, and still follows, where cringe leads. I don't think Wallace wanted to get away from Edward, I think she wanted what he could offer except marriage. She wanted him to be King, and she would remain his mistress, but could still be with her husband.
The English people should be thankful to Wallis , because Edward the 8th would have given England to the Nazi's
You don't seem to understand a constitutional monarchy. He could do nothing without parliamentary approval and Churchill, for one, would never have handed England to the Nazis. The very fact he had to abdicate in order to do what he wanted indicates the figurehead they are and not a monarch with any real political power.
@@susanharris5926 I mean just the fact that the media were silent on the whole Edward & Wallis affair kind of shows how much power they had. Many credit the King and Queen as an effective cheerleader and morale booster for the war efforts... They were also sent to visit Roosevelt to convince him to join the war. I think its a strong possibility that they at least influenced the outcome of the war. It would also make sense that just because of who they were that many individuals who wield power would be influenced by the monarchs opinions, either to further their own careers or out of reverence for the monarchy as an institution. If Edward was king at the time he could have always pulled the "nuclear option" and used his reserve powers which would have effectively deadlocked the government until they could overthrow him. I think the monarchy has more influence than they would ever advertise. Even Edward and Wallis interviews were censored during the war out of fear it would influence people, even tho he wasn't still the king.
@@brett6905 The media were far from silent. It was all over the newspapers and the news. The biggest influence to the outcome of the second world war was the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and America joined the fray. The monarchs are not supposed to have opinions that they state publicly. Nor do I think they influence that many people. The banks and in particular the City of London are calling the shots in Europe and in many other parts of the world for that matter. Their interviews were censored after the spectacle of them visiting Hitler in order to make sure they said nothing in favor of Germany. You have to remember it wasn't so much the government that was against them - it was the Church of England and he unfortunately as King was the nominal head of that outfit which meant he and the government of the day had to take seriously their dictates with respect to divorced. As you know, things have changed a lot since then.
@@susanharris5926 Not in Britain, the media never reported bad things about the royal family in those days. The British People were not aware of Wallace until long after it had been reported all over the world. They had considerable influence where the media was concerned.
If the Royal family held no power and didn't influence the media, why wouldn't the pictures of Ed and Wallace standing beside Hitler be published? They would certainly be profitable. "Spectacles" sell papers.... The couple also did interviews with magazines, and President Roosevelt made sure they were never published.
There is a strong case to be made, that Roosevelt wanted to enter the war but couldn't until Japan struck first. We definitely declared economic war on Japan first when we were supposedly neutral. I don't think we will ever have the full story of what went down, but its a strong possibility. Roosevelt strongly disliked the Japanese, and I doubt the UK government would have spent the money (and it was a costly trip) to send the king and queen to America if they didn't think it would pay off. Roosevelt loved the royal family.
You say the banks held considerable power. I would agree. I was watching a video of Queen Elizabeth having her portrait painted in 1992, and she was talking to the painter and casually mentioned having dinner with the Rothschilds, one of the most powerful banking families in Europe. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but the Rothschilds and the royal family have been friends and business associates since the days of Queen Victoria. A Rothschild was Queen Victorias personal banker, her kids attended school with them. It is well documented. Part of being the monarch is you make friends in those circles. And being in with the monarch is definitely considered a feather in your cap in high society. Networking is a huge part of that family's power base.
I think it was absolutely the government and not the church of England that helped oust Edward the 8th. He really was an unsuitable man in personality and intellect for the job. He was offensive to the establishment and a known nazi sympathizer. Wallace was the excuse to oust him but not the reason. The Church of England was certainly complicit but there is allot more to that story than him giving up the throne to marry the woman he loved. Why do you think many of the documents are still sealed to this day?
I still stand by my opinion that George and Elizabeth quite possibly affected the outcome of the war. Technically the nuclear explosion ended the war, but for all intensive purposes the war was already won by the allies. If Britain folded early in the game, who knows what the outcome would have been
You also didn't reply to my hypothetical.. If Edward the 8th had been king and used his reserve powers to shut down the government... It would have been chaos and absolutely weakened if not deadlocked the war effort. It wouldn't be a smart move on his part but it could have happened.
The banks held power then and now. The City of London is outside of laws that govern the rest of the country. Edward 8 was an immensely popular king and was far more amenable than any of his successors. He would have done a no worse job than the following 2. He had terrible judgment thinking that Germany and England had commonality and going there, but brains and political savvy have not been a requirement for the monarchy since Elizabeth I. As to reserve powers to shut down the government, I frankly know of no such thing. Monarchy in England is constitutional and is largely ceremonial and formal with actual political power in the hands of the government and has been since Charles I. Banks operate globally outside of all of this.
Wallis and Earnest both enjoyed the perks and privileges that came from David. Ernest accepted that David's attraction to Wallis was not innocent. They all played the game too long. Earnest spent so much time alone that he found someone else and was happier for it. Fawning adoration is fun at first but the novelty burns up fast. Wallis not literally trapped into marriage with David. Its just that women of her set saw no prospect other than marriage. Her affair with Edward so destroyed her reputation that she had no hope of finding anyone else. She did not have the courage to go it alone. She did hold up her end of the marriage for many long years. Ultimately she grew bored and irritated with her clinging husband. She romanticized her memories of Earnest for that had been a more balanced relationship. I do not pity either of them for their marriage was an endless round of useless extravagance.
Rather accurate portrait of the affair
Wow, you need to write a lot of books. This was beautifully written and sharply observed. You've very keen perception and the ability to articulate it without verbosity.
You need to include that she found him dull and boring.
When did her mother die ? You never see Wallis have her widowed mother to come stay with her in England or anywhere.
@barbara couffer Oh I always read the comments. Often I read them first. In many cases I just love the good old intelligent discourse and well written critique is a gift. It energises me.
This is a case of: “You made your bed, now lay in it.” Wallis brought this all upon herself.
Correct!!!
Horse crap. Edward set this whole train in motion.
Lie, not lay, but otherwise, Abso-freaking-lutely.
My wife was an English teacher while I was teaching history. 😁
Did she tho?
It’s possible this is just the royal family trying to besmirch her name. This is all alleged.
The old boy who stated that "she had a face like an old boot" was most correct
She cheated on her husband. Humiliated him. And then wants sympathy because things did not turn out the way she wanted. She wanted the glam without the responsibility.
She cheated on her Husband (Ernest) , then got jealous when her good friend hooked up
with him---she's a control freak -just like you-know-who !!!
Initially a lark to benefit her and Ernest, social climbing....but not smart enough to get out soon enough.
He was likely in on it. Not unusual in that group. If your wife is mistress to a king or prince, you move up the social ladder. Normally the king or prince will end it at some point when someone new comes along.
I do not think either counted on the obsessive behaviour.
Oh no he was cheating on her and was divorcing her. Now back in the day men allowed their wives to cheat up the ladder. Odd but true. It brought both of you up If you did not you stayed in your rank. Never can you apply today’s reasoning to yesteryear. Very common tho
@@irislai7821 She cheated on her first husband, then cheated on her second husband (with his consent as it brought him into contact with other royals and wealthy people who helped him become MORE wealthy). They used each other. She ended up paying the higher price being saddled with an obsessive, childish, boring, POS that she could not stand. Earnest at least had loving relationships with his last two wives!
I imagine that being married to and living with a man-baby grew tiresome.
How truly said... 👍 👌😊
As it does. . .
Ahh but history always repeats itself. Megs is destined to repeat it all with the man-baby she married.
@@gammahinAz If PH is a man-baby who is still growing up... then MM is a woman-monster chasing for MM - Mega Money for her own use... Perfect Match... 😊
The world is their stage. They can have their freek show
My father always said "if you play with fire you're bound to get burned" Wallace roasted everyone around herself.
Most of all herself.
This woman could have walked away, Eduard was not holding her in chains..
She supposedly cried during Eduard's speech of renouncing the crown because she realized that she won't be a queen, she stayed with him because of the tremendous ambition of the riches of the royals and she knew she was going to be benefited.
She was enjoying the wealth, the glamour, jewelry etc..that she couldn't never afford it. For this woman to say that she didn't want married Eduard was an act, she wanted the riches of the royal life. She wanted the rich financial security.
She definitely was GOLD DIGGER 😭
Wallace was the reason why Elizabeth id Queen today
But she would have been Queen anyway because Edward didn't have children.
@@hisnewlife3543 yes. If Edward VIII had remained unmarried and childless, the crown would have passed to his next younger brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York. when he died. Since Prince Albert (King George VI) died in 1952, the the crown would have passed to his oldest child- Princess Elizabeth.
@His New Life absolutely. I personally believe Wallis couldn't have children, she was married thrice and had no children from any of her husbands. Plus She was 41 when she married Edward
It's Wallis, not Wallace.
@@300biggirl It's Wallace, Wallis was a transgender a man and Edward was a female. The same as all the so call royals who are all blood relatives and that's including the spouses.
THE CREATOR BLESS
It doesn't matter how beautiful a place you live in, if you don't love whom you live in it with. So Tragic !!! 😔
Not even if one has 15 bathrooms ?? !🤣🤣🤣🤣😃😃😍
Or love yourself and not money/status. She thought she was going to get the title, all of the jewels, and all of the money. Because she never loved herself, she got absolutely nothing in the end.
That makes your home a very fancy prison!
True, but it seems justice when someone not nice reaps what they sow in life.
@@gammahinAz Oh please.. to be greedy and entitled is the most perverted love of self. All three initiated a game and they got caught up in it and destroyed by it. Earnest could have done a few things to turn it around (the press could work both ways) but he was getting Gold Card access to high society too. So he chucked her once they both got established; knowing she'd never truly want for anything. Unlike the millions of people W.E.'s "friends" (the Nazis) "took care of". No I don't feel sorry for any of them. You sow the wind, you end up being hurled by the whirlwind.---meaning you sow discord and deceit to get what you want, you will be found out and destroyed. Boo hoo.
She was a master manipulator. She probably loved neither of them, really. But I think she wrote those letters to Earnest, not because she missed or loved him so much, but because she was hoping to keep her knight in shining armor if anything went wrong with Edward. Likely, she lived in perpetual fear of being replaced by a younger, prettier model and Earnest would be her rebound. If she kept communicating with him, she could rekindle that flame without missing a beat.
The only problem was Ernest remarried so I think it was emotional needs she was trying to work out not because she wanted a plan B
She needed someone to talk to. Obviously someone whom she can trust. You obviously have no idea what it is like to be an orphan
Oh I think it was just Wallis being Wallis, playing her game to see if she could keep Ernest on the string for the fun of it, especially since he had moved on and was apparently finding happiness with someone else.
@@karendalsadik7119 Ernest's replies certainly would have been comforting to her.
I think it's sad so many women hate other women.
They were all playing with danger and emotions, bringing in girlfriends to amuse the men. What a way to live.
I’ve read a lot of books on the royals and read that one of the reasons Elizabeth didn’t like Wallis was that when they were the Duke and Duchess of York, living In a royal house, David and Wallis visited and commented about the large trees in the garden. Wallis told Elizabeth that she and David would have them removed when he was king.
She did have her eyes on the throne.
Two very lost, spoiled, selfish people. Edward was screwed over by Arch Bishop Lang, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, his family and most of all, Wallis herself. Wallis was a horribly abusive and manipulative woman who kept marrying up, who was "taken care of" by her men friends/husbands. They drove each other into insanity. It is difficult to feel sorry for either of them.
J Mimi
Edward VIII was an adult not a child but he was a fool and he allowed Wallis to do what she wanted. He like being abused. His father should of told him marry by forty or else.
I absolutely understand that the attention of a future king can be flattering.....it all began with a flirt and she got trapped !He was an obsessed spoiled not mature guy that even manipulated her to cut off his throat up if she leaves him!! This woman had to leave the wonderful social life she had to live with a sad boring man forever....WHY is nobody being human and emphatic ? We all make mistakes...she payed loosing her real love
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Ernest doesn’t seem upset that his wife was a mistress for two years. Edward would later be treated, by Wallis, in away that others saw as humiliating. There are men that are attracted to women that treat them harshly. These men crave it. Things did not go AT ALL the way that Wallis hoped. She played with others’ emotions and she too got burned. She was a social butterfly that died a long lonely death.
It does not even come as a surprise him being a well adored man being the future king. I guess he hardly knew one woman not serving to all his needs saying yes to every of his whims.
So grateful for these vain fools! They gave us our dearly loved Elizabeth! God save the Queen! 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧
amen !
If she had really wanted to escape , she could have done it .
She could have avoided marrying him if she didn't want to.
Nobody forced her to become his wife after all... It was her choice but they soon became such an embarrassment for everyone !
I agree she was a, manipulator
I think you forget the period in history. If she left him she would never be accepted in society, he trapped her with that speech.
He threatened to kill himself. Who wants blood on their hands.
I read in a book that was written before he became King, as a child he became upset when other children said anything about his future role as King. This struck me as another reason for his actions concerning Wallis.
Maybe he unconsciously used the opportunity of his infatuation with her as his ticket to get out of the obligation to reign ? The feeling of being trapped in the wrong context/situation can trigger complex and powerful emotions and exacerbate the perception of being in love, more so if he person suffers from a feeling of incompetence.
This is the problem with affairs. It's too difficult to be with one without thinking about the other. The great thing about not having affairs, you live in the present with the one you're with.
Exactly! Well said!
Haha !! Too good.
If u are not content with the little that u hve , u'll never be content with much
She had a 2 year affair with him ,then all of a sudden she loved her husband more than the prince she has been sleeping with for two years ?
The abdication was one of those defining moments of history which changed the world for many decades to come, from what it would likely have been.
My mum was one of the handful of girls that worked at Eva Lutyens as a court dressmaker in 1937, making Wallis’s famous Mainbocher dress; Wallis would bring sandwiches when visiting for fittings, and only carried paper money which was ironed flat!
It was a whole different time when Edward met Wallis - different rules and the british people were not amused about Wallis at all, right. British Empire were more than shocked about Edwards choice - for Wallis -
@@claudiaschneider5744 Yes: she was even banned from being in Britain for a while.
Newly pressed money?
What a great story. Do you have more to tell?
@@creature57 Wallis was fastidious, and took ages with fittings… hence the sandwiches. Eva Lutyens place was at Buckingham Gate, next to the palace; she was very well connected with top people. The fabric for the dress was crêpe I think, with some suede and feathers in the outfit somewhere… and all in the special colour Wallis Blue, although it faded years later (to beige) and was featured as a centrepiece in the Fashion Institute at the Met Art Museum in New York where I believe it still resides. My mum made a replica of the top part for her own wedding dress a couple of years later, but it mysteriously disappeared at the cleaners when she went to collect it.
“She hated him but she loved Hitler.” That says everything about ‘that woman’ and the little man.
I don't believe she would have "loved" Hitler. He was a squat uneducated man. Edward had class and actually, I read, that what he admired about what Hitler was doing was the building of public housing That isn't loving Hitler. He met him as did a lot of people. No excuses, but seriously, David and Wallis were not stupid!
@@nanmorris8188 Edward was weak minded. Had to have validation from her. He was a emotional mess with our her. He was a simp basically. I can’t really be convinced otherwise.
Edward or “David” was a hundred percent simp!
What’s simp?
@@matthutchings1988 well Wallis was a Simpson so yeah...
The title is incorrect. She was never Edward VIII's wife. He had abdicated and was simply the Duke of Windsor when they married.
What
@@marsche9571: The Duke of Windsor ceased to be Edward VIII when he abdicated. He married after he abdicated. So, the Duchess of Windsor was never "the wife of Edward VIII."
Those were the days of letter writing - they show in vivid colour a complicated woman, a multifaceted character lamenting the ultimate loss of her freedom and realisation of the true love of her life - shackled to a dull boring childlike man who never acquired the gift of charm, humility or generosity of spirit.
She got what she aimed for
O´Seas Viewer: You are right, but who tells us that the letters are not fake to change the story a little bit?
What her letters and behaviour show is a woman focused on herself, her own pride, her drive for attention and wealth. It does NOW shock me to find people interpreting this woman has the victim - "lamenting the loss of her freedom" and "shcackled to a dull, boring childlike man".
Seeing her as a victim is ludicrous. I have to really wonder, what is it with so many people thinking women are innocent victims, never responsible for their own choices and actions?
Can't comprehend this story know about Wallis and Edward. Will be reading upon it.
@@jhb1493 Never did they say she wasn't a victim, but if a man sucks then he sucks. Admitting it doesn't make Wallis a victim.
Love the voice portrayal of Wallis
Elizabeth McGovern
Just finished reading an autobiography on Wallis and although I think that her personality was very flirty and manipulative and that she did love the money and jewels that Edward showered upon her I feel like she didn’t want a divorce from Ernest. It is also forgotten a lot that Ernest was having an affair with a Mary Kirk and put forth first about the idea of a divorce. Also every time Wallis threatened to run away or leave Edward he threatened to do bad things to himself. Also if you reflect upon Edwards ‘playboy’ behaviour and that the fact that he was married to Wallis until he was 40 and never took interest in being king and always fought against the traditions of the establishment I feel like Wallis was just an escape goat for him not wanting to be king in the first place.
I agree with you. Edward knew his weakness and used Wallis as a scapegoat. Realistically, he didn't want to be king as he knew its hardwork.
Yes, a fascinating book; "Love has its Reasons"... I have a copy here.
Did she write an autobiography? Or did you read a biography on her
@@r5u26d3 Wallis wrote “Love has its Reasons”.
Unfortunately, life is not 'sweet and lovely ' all the time. Both these people chased the glamour, and life at the top, without wanting any of the responsibilities for anything or anyone except themselves! They got what they deserved, and fortunately for the rest of the world, Britain gained a true King and Queen.
the main thing for the british monarchy is that, because of this, thank god the british people and monarchy dodged the bullet of having edward as king!
Edward VIII was a scaredy cat. Yes he loved Wallis but the primary reason why he abdicated was not because of Wallis, but because he wanted to run away, he never wanted to be king, he was too afraid for such burdens.
Well is that not a lot like Prince Harry? He didn't want to fulfill his role within the family.?
He could have held enormous power as Williams closest friend and counselor had he and his wife been willing to work for Great Britain instead of themselves.
The person a king or queen leans on the most often hold great power .
Just like Harry. He never wanted to be a prince or a working royal. Nutmeg is his ticket out and his opportunity to hurt and harm his family.
I hear this story and I don't see anyone who is malicious and evil. I see a group of people lacking common sense and allowing feelings and emotions to rule them. What a mess. I hope they all found peace at some point in their lives
Hardly. Wallis lived as if she were queen belittling her ex-king spouse, "David" was a shadow of his former self, whining about not having a job and needing more money, the Queen Mother couldn't accept her lesser status as widowed former queen consort--and didn't. ER II kept them all in play and placated. After all, America is a good enough place to ship off England's disgraced ex-kings and worthless princelings, both with ambitious American wives and their delusions of grandeur.
Men. Even kings. Can be so stupid. Taken in by desire
@@suem308 They say love is blind; it can also be stupid and sick.
I wrote a comment at the beginning of the video, where I said "What a mess". Then by the time the video ended, I felt sad for them all.
@@suem308 You mean people. Wallis wasn't exactly level-headed.
All you have to do is look at the photographs or videos of the two of them together and you can see that she never really looks at him.
It seems a bit obvious to me how narcissistic she was. She didn’t love anyone except herself. Your documentary says that she was divorcing the man she loved. But, if you truly love someone, I do not feel you need to go outside your marriage for emotional support or satisfaction.
No one feels sorry for her that I’ve ever heard of. It sounds to me that she had isolated herself from everyone around her, most likely through her own selfish actions
Did you see her recoil from his kiss on the cheek @ 21:42. Not a loving move. It was a repulsion.
2 points -1. Infidelity factored in when Wallis and Ernest first got together. He was married and she ignored that, it seems. And infidelity at the end.Marriages that begin that way almost always fail (80% plus). Point 2 - Apparently, The Duke of Windsor never asked her to marry him. He just declared he must marry her. He' always got his own way, so he assumed what he wanted he would get. (not to mention the suicide threat) Still, she could have said "I don't" at the altar.
As. The king he had the. Power to make her queen or queen consort. Maybe he did not was because he simply did not want to be king with all that entailed. I think being a playboy was more to his liking...he made the right call just look at our wonderful queen Elizabeth.
Charles and Camila won't divorce.
@@angelaalbury986 Angela, I agree. A very contented couple and their relationship began before the marriage to Diana, so they had history when they were both single. Changes things a bit, I think.
@@margaretmcgill526Camila was married when he married Diana..and still both of them were cheating on their partners ..that's awful
Wallace Simpson got what she asked for, a title, lots of jewelry and the high life. It's hard to feel sorry for her.
She was playing with a mans heart for her own gain.. who could feel sorry her?
repeat with Harry and Megaego
Very much like Megan Markle
She bit off more than she could chew and paid for it. I feel sorry for both of them really. He was a very troubled man, having been abused as a child by his awful parents and a terrible nanny it seems. Smacks of codependency but one hopes they were at least slightly happy together.
@@lorenataft6157 Nonsense! I am not defending Wallace, but comparing Meg with Wallace is a huge mistake! You are giving Meg too much credit! Firstly, Harry is not a future King, he is just the spare, hence he never gave up the throne for Meg! King Edward VIII was the heir to the throne, he was crowned King and gave up the Throne for Wallace Simpson. That is already the first major difference! Don't compare the heir with the spare! Harry might be high profile but he is just the spare and he gave up nothing for Meg! Second, while not everyone would agree with Wallace actions, she did come from a wealthy, well to do, renowned Baltimore family and was given a good education, in stark contrast with M's dubious background. Compared to M, Wallace Simpson was a Lady!
Honestly, who thought theirs was a romantic love story?
Not I!
Not I.
Wondering how those letters came to be in Wallis’ possession. She wrote and posted them. How were they returned? One of the letters is one that Ernest wrote to his mother. One or two were written to her aunt. Doesn’t make sense.
The implacable hand of destiny..no one can fight it. The dignity of Queen Elizabeth's parents is so refreshing compared to these messed up adults. Oh what a tangled Web we weave when we first practice to deceive.
Ernest and Wallis Simpson were on exactly the same page---both were unabashed social climbers---Ernest was not only aware of her affair with Edward from the 'get go' but was FINE with the relationship, since it opened as many doors for him as it did for Wallis. It was a win-win for them both, UNTIL Edward went off the deep end for her, which the Simpsons had not considered. They never would've divorced otherwise. Ernest had to 'save face' since the King's besotted pursuit of Wallis escalated and would never relent. And Wallis felt she had no other choice but to marry.
That is a very normal thing for the English monarksCharlie had the same thing with Camilla and husband knew about the affair so maybe they threaten them maybe it’s just a swingers party but the death of Diana tells you somethingThey bleed the every day man to death and they live in luxury and that’s what they doRolling in mud generation after generation
@@soulatheodore9517 this almost happened with Prince William and Rose Hanbury, her husband knew about thier relationship..but I don't think Kate agreed with the arrangement, plus they were friends for a longtime after the press got wind of it that relationship it was quickly put on ice and she was asked to leave court but only until things died down.
@@justinejustice_league1857 D's wife here: there was no affair, that was Harry's wife causing havoc!
@@justinejustice_league1857 that was a rumor the the witch put out. I don't think that was true and has Not been proven as far as I know. 🐝
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I recommend everyone read Winston Churchill's accounts of Wallis' life.
I see parallels in the Wallis situation with the Megan markle situation.
How did Wallis make such a monumental error? Easy, blinded by greed and the perverse satisfaction of knowing that she had de-throned the King of England! A tremendous example to the rest of us that she had to live out her sentence before the world.
Wrong, she didn't want him to abdicate...
She was flattered to be in the King's circles for sure, but she certainly didn't want him to be be dethroned. It wouldn't be of any use to her.
Wallis wanted a King, she ditched her husband and went after her crown. I find is amazing anyone believes she really loved her dumped husband because she didn't get her crown or King. She was a real piece of work!
Well said! Ernest was an afterthought. In her letters to him it's all about her & how this has affected her life. Her primary mission to achieve social status resulted in exile, isolation & loneliness.
@@sandradee1579 she loathed children, ended up married and exiled with one hahahaa
like markle
@@lorrainebishop3520 exactly. In my opinion meghan will leave Harry within 3 years and move on. You will see
That's the thing.
In the long run the right person was on the throne when WWII started. It makes you start to question the mental stability of Edward VIII. Thank you for the update.
Many people who knew her at the time claimed that her interest in the Prince of Wales centered on becoming Queen. She never imagined that the Court of St James would go so far as to accept the King's abdication rather than see her next to him on a throne. It wasn't the man she wanted, it was his position, or put more accurately, the position she assumed she would have as his wife.
Oh I don't think she thought that far. But having an affair with a king is pretty big deal. I think she played the hard game and didn't think too far ahead.
Precisely. She was a calculating, grasping social climber. She simply misread the room on this caper.
'Edward's love for Wallace was alarming'...well I would say so considering he gave up the thrown to be with her - or perhaps, he deep down didn't want the thrown and used his love for her as a way out...
Always want what we can't have. If she was with her husband, the letters would have been to the king.
@Israelite American Like someone we know lol
I think that could be the case, but I think bigger issue is being forced to choose. That's the real tragedy.
The husband thought it was an honor! This is no love story
I thought that too. Always wants what she can’t have. Always wants to be the martyr. Always wants the security of a husband and the extra of a lover.
Pathological liar, manipulator, general narcissist.
Karma, for always stealing someone else’s husband. Well at least she stayed with him!
Well at last, a biography that appears to be authentic; not sugar-coated. Thanks.
Oh please. She wasn't forced to marry him, she didn't really try to get out of it. Instead of just telling him to his face she didn't love him or want to marry him she took all these back roads. Why? Because this is exactly what she wanted
The guy who said: "It didn't take a lot to turn me on at 23 and she didn't"...made my day LOL
Face like an old boot!
He was not handsome creature himself! I thought Wallis was lovely. She’d never look at that freak.
Exactly. Wallis was gorgeous. That guy was an ugly nobody.
She whas no beauty!maybe her it whas her behave that he love!Him so handsome but poor neurona easy to buy!jaja
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It’s so ridiculous reading that she could do nothing. Why didn’t she board the next ship to America? Why couldn’t t she just tell him that she wasn’t in love with him? It’s preposterous.
You do realize those were different times for women, right
Priscila Magalhaes
Times change, it’s inevitable. She could have used her intelligence and “charisma” for more honorable ends. Sorry, I’m not being judgemental just observant. She could have also steered him away from being a Nazi sympathizer. There were many women of that era that did accomplish great things without compromising her character and morals.
Those were different times for women. She definitely put herself in a bizzarre predicament. If you recall, any remote possibility that her abandonment could have resulted in Edward's suicide entailed grave repercussions on her reputation on many levels. A compelling reason to proceed with a marriage she didn't really want. Wow!
@@priscilalondon True, but that would have no bearing here. She could still have pulled the plug on the relationship with Edward.
@@sopranosd No. I don’t believe that she could. She was trapped. Those days for women were so different.
This "great romance" infuriates me. I don't feel any compassion for these two characters. Plus they were Nazi sympathizers. There should be more documentaries about Prince Phillip's mother, Princess Alice. She was a woman of strength and courage.
N M ..Most people will have a great and passionate love affair during their lives...You just get on with it and don't make a fuss about it.
Is this Wallis Sinpson's ghost talking?
Was'nt Phillips mother mad and joined some sort of nunnery ...
@@ianstewart2252 prince andrew sent her to an insane asylum
Well I'm pretty sure most people aren't the king of England and abdicate over such affair and this is why they're making a fuss about it. Nobody cares about affairs, it's even known and looked the other away with other kings and queens during their reigns.
She was NEVER the wife of Edward VIII - that was the whole point of the abdication !
All the time that he was Edward VIII she was his mistress. She only became his wife AFTER his abdication and his becoming Duke of Windsor.
Amazing documentary. Thank you for posting. Amazing this is the first time I've seen this or heard the truth of this twisted relationship.
Is like the story of the monkey with his hand in the cookie jar, won’t let go the cookie and gets trapped.
Great analogy!
DITTO
Yes, but there is no actual footage of a monkey that dumb. It’s a story.
@@dragonmartijn I said story! from psychology 101. Is an example of greed . In reality in India monkeys get caught by putting nuts in inside a coconut with a hole big enough for the monkey’s hand. the coconut is first tide to a tree trunk.
@@normahuesmann3794 Sorry, I think I've just proven myself that dumb XD
Little sympathy for Wallis, even today. Wallis’ true love was for herself.
Move over Wallace, Markle took the throne
Joanie Adams First of all, Mrs. Simpson’s first name is Wallis, not Wallace. Second, the Harry and Meghan situation is not the same as this one.
@@TableForOne1976 - First of all, Mrs. Simpson first "real" name is Bessie. Her birth name was Bessie Wallis Warfield. She didn't like the name Bessie so she began referring to herself as Wallis (her middle name). And I agree with you, the Harry and Meghan situation is not the same as this one. Not even close.
Total sympathy for Wallis. Look the insecure child she agreed to cater to.
Yep and even those letters was her just trying to use him to get away from edward, if she would've got away she would've left her ex husband too. She's all about self.
She always loved her 1st husband. I believe Edward was a challenge to Wallis, but when she got him, she didn't want him anymore, & became miserable with him. Sometimes you need to be careful what you ask for. The grass isn't always greener.😔
Ernest was her Second husband.
The pressure associated with being involved with the King was taking a toll on her
Sad that Edward couldn’t see he was being played. She was conniving and knew exactly what she was doing.
Do you think it was really like that? I have read quite a bit, and basically it seemed that Edward had a large entourage of people to keep him entertained and when she and Ernest appeared, he was totally smitten. That's how I see it.
No matter what, my god that woman had fabulous jewelry which was designed by the two of them.
Sort of reminds me in a weird way of Prince Harry and MM…
Who does she remind you of !!!
Meghan Markle
Same thinking. Poor Harry
All this spouse swapping is nauseating. I guess I should be glad at least it was amongst adults here.
Wallis didn’t mess up things for England. Edward said that he would have run off the rails, with or without Wallis. He simply wasn’t suitable to reign. I think George & Mary caused those boys’ stuttering and made life as Royalty miserable for their sons. Such a shame, but Elizabeth stepped up to the plate and hit a home-run. God Save the Queen. Whatever will life be like without her? The whole of Europe and across many nations shall grieve, especially Charles. What a falling off there will be.❤️
The UK would be better without the monarchy. It is an archaic form of control that helps no one but the "firm". The Commonwealth has 53 countries, the queen profits from but we see nothing happening when they are in need. Check out the Bahamas......nothing came from the queen after the last storm devastated the islands, but she claims it as "hers". One sided thing.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/08/map-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-british-empire/
nothing but a bunch of greedy criminals and pedophiles.
QE lived up to and through a lot of scandal. She will go down as great as Victoria.
@@linanicolia1363 POW did visit and the Royal Navy provide help for the Carribean realm.😞
Sometimes things happen for a reason. I just cannot feel any empathy for Wallis. She broke up a marriage, and “took care” of Edward,, while married to Earnest. I’m also not impressed with Edward and Earnest’s unethical behavior. All of them were flawed.
I don’t see how Ernest did anything wrong. His wife asked for a divorce, and he granted it to her. At that time, it was considered ungentlemanly to divorce one’s wife; one always allowed one’s wife to divorce her husband, manufacturing evidence for her divorce grounds, if necessary. It was considered chivalrous. Women were never presented at court, to be adulterous, or in any way at fault. The husband was always presented as at fault. Ernest simply acted as a gentleman was expected to. Wallis, on the other hand, was a total mess, who had no idea what she wanted. She was unfaithful and lost, in both her relationship with Ernest Simpson and her marriage to the Duke of Windsor. She was a disaster for any man who fell for her.
I think Wallis wrote the goodbye letter to add pressure to Edward to insist her future piosition as queen. Wallis never loved anyone except herself. Ernest was just a convenient escape...bless him he woke up, saw her real self and found sincere happiness later.
Wallis has been vilified as a social climber but, as usual, it’s far more complicated than that. It sounds a lot like Wallis mothered him and that was the root of his obsession with her.
Regardless of how one feels about Wallis she certainly saved GB from this disaster of a king!
On the other hand, its quite likely the war would have been very different.
Come Camilla ha fatto da madre a charles
Obviously Wallis just wanted to marry Edward because she wanted to be queen. Things didn't turn out the way she wanted...and couldn't leave Edward after he gave up the crown.
IT'S CALLED "OMEN " --WALLIS COULDN'T BE QUEEN !!!!
She didn't want to be queen...she didn't even really want to marry Edward. By the time they were as involved as they were, he used emotional blackmail on her.
@@zzzbbbooo she said she didn't want to be queen because he was abdicating the throne. She wanted to be queen not because she loved Edward, but because of what she would gain by becoming a queen. Once she saw that he was abdicating, she didn't want to be with him anymore
I don't think she was ever under any impression that she could/would be queen. I think that she understood that if they married he would have to abdicate.
Oopsie. She really thought that she had it.
"She had a face like an old boot." Lol
What a twist, though at the end I can't help but thinking maybe Wallis never truly loved anyone other than herself, she was only seeking a spark through the different people that came and went in her life...
I don't think she's all that terrible to look at. Not a great beauty, of course. But I would call her handsome and always impeccably dressed and groomed. I feel the same way about how Jackie Kennedy looked. And I know people are going to fight me on this especially in regard to things like behavior and class differences...but I think their appearances were similar in that they worked with what they had.
Same with Jackie O but a well dressed woman for sure. Iconic.👌
Exactly. Women can be remembered for their impeccable grooming and personal style without ever having been beauties.
Jackie Kennedy was a beauty, especially when she was in her 20s.
@@edennis8578 She was never beautiful. She was well dressed.
I don't think she is unattractive. Certainly unique, and she had impeccable taste. Together Wallis and Edward were fashion icons of their time.
This is eye opening. I thought it was just the typical love story thing. But daaaaang this is crazy!
Interesting, but how would text of letters she wrote to other people wind up among her documents? Astounding to think that while so many young Brits lost their lives in WWI/ WWII, Edward could not accept this relatively small sacrifice for his people. Edward wanted Wallace so much because she was virtually the only thing on Earth he really couldn't have. Given his highly selfish behavior, Edward's leaving the throne was by far the best outcome for the British people.
Wallis Simpson was ambitious. Not really in love with Edward but in love with the idea of being royal. Sound familiar in 2022....
After seeing this, and the movie The King’s Speech, I feel the reason why Edward latched onto Wallis was he was terrified. He didn’t want to be king. He knew that he would never be allowed to marry her, and always planned to use her to get out of it. He had to act besotted with her so no one questioned when he abdicated, and I think he eventually convinced himself that he did worship her.
They didn't want him to be King either! None of them. Not the Establishment and not his parents...especially his father King George.
He needed her, but I don't think he loved her. He loved himself and the idea of having a strong woman by his side.
I don't understand the British hypocrisy about divorce after all wasn't it king Henry the eighth who cut ties with the catholic church so he could divorce queen Catherine of Aragon and marry Ann boleyn.
He didn't divorce Catherine in the modern understanding of the word. The marriage was annulled
Yes, it was. They’re just all total prats.
@@loditx7706 so true lol
@@ericplunder2744 what does that even mean? Modern understanding of the word? Hogwash! She didn’t pack her stuff and go find an apartment, but
*. He told her ladies to pack what he was willing to let her take.
*. He confiscated most, if not all, jewels to give to Anne.
*. He provided a house for her and ordered her to move several times to progressively worse places.
*. He got custody of the kid and refused visitation.
*. He had already dismissed most of her Spanish ladies and staff, but he provided limited funds for the support of her household.
So: modern day divorce,
* They don’t live together anymore.
*. One spouse (not necessarily the husband) pays alimony or spousal support, for a limited amount of time as ordered by the court.
(Unfortunately for Catherine, Henry was the court)
*. One spouse gets custody of the kid; although now the other usually gets visitation rights.
*. If they jointly own property, it might be sold and any profit divided. (Unfortunately again there was no joint ownership.)
* Either party could remarry and in this case, one did. The other stated she was still married.
Word squabbling is stupid. Annul or divorce, the result was the same; except Catherine was stupid and both she and her child suffered for it. It was worse than a divorce for Catherine.
I don’t want to hear prattle about being faithful to her religion. When Henri of France converted to Catholicism to become king, he said Paris was worth a mass. Catherine should have accepted the inevitable and negotiated. Perhaps she and her child would have been better off if she would have been less obstinate and surely that would have been better than clutching to a useless faith.
At any rate, whatever you call it, it was a divorce.
There is no public hypocrisy, When Henry V111 pulled Britain away from the Catholic
Pope in order to obtain a divorce, it was a Church law that forbade divorce
and it was frowned upon generally until, as you see in this video it was pretty
acceptable. Even today though the established Church, of which HM the ~Queen
is The Head, refuses to remarry divorcees in Church. Prince Charles and Camilla
had to have a registry office wedding. This demonstrates how much effort was
put in to please the woman who married Harry! He was her 3rd husband but I doubt he knew it at the time, she was permitted that ridiculous wedding, not only a divorcee
several times over, but in her forties, getting married in virginal white, tiara
bridesmaids, train, the whole lot ! at huge cost as well. A special dispensation was
obviously made for her, but once she had the ring on that finger, her true self appeared and she started, and still has not finished, to harm the royal family she schemed to join,
lies, lies, and eventually walked away with HER dim witted husband. So many paralells with the story of Edward and Wallace it is uncanny. Harrys wife will not be a success in her ambitions, she is too false and dislikeable, everyone surely knows what SHE is about now!
This is a very revealing piece. It gives real insight to what truly happened.
there is a documentary about her collection of jewelry after it was auctioned off. Edward was bestowing a fortune in jewelry on Wallis, which cost the equivalent of millions, huge diamonds, emeralds and handfuls of rubies. And Ernest paid for the insurance on these items. I imagine her gleefully taking these items home, showing them to Ernest, and the two of them calculating the insurance value..
The Simpsons were milking Edward for everything they could get.
She had a husband. Meanwhile she was the mistress to Edward. She has zero respect for her marriage. She is 100% responsible for her actions and earned the consequences.
She has no moral
The husband was in on it
Jelly Belly very looks like Camilla bowls.
@@WenWen-tg4uk same as Camilla
Wow Wallace the one who wanted it all. A King, the life of a Queen, and a husband with stability, died alone and unhappy. Poor Wallace.. Broke up marriages, wanted it all and died with just herself. Poor Wallace. Satan got his pound of flesh.
She was David’s (The immature spoiled Prince) mistress for two years! After this time she must have realized he was weak, though surrounded by wealth which was probably too hard to give up. The reality was The King was not the Ruler of Britain but a figurehead who would not be allowed to marry a divorcée while on the Throne. it is apparent that she was a strong woman whose manipulation of her Husband and The spoiled Prince ended exactly where she landed - either stay and marry David/Edward the Prince or leave and be forever thought of as the Women who abandoned her Prince who abandoned the Throne. I feel no sympathy for either of them. Their life ended up just as empty as it was during the affair - partying with sycophants with no real responsibilities and no one in the Royal Family wanting anything to do with them for years and years!
Having read a few biographies about the Royals & learned a bit about Edward, his abdication was a blessing in disguise. WW2 came along & he just wasn’t the monarch the country needed at that time.
Oh my God, I sated to love the Royals when a dear friend gave me a book of this remarkable story. A man who advices the throne for a woman he loves. He gave up everything, but after they lived an empty lives, going to Paris, dinners, going to place to place......I don;t think any of those two were really happy.
LOL Ernest left himself out of the "mess those two people made" He was complicit also. Traded his wife for an over coat sounds about right.
I don't think he had
any choice events overtook him..
Literally. She didn't want to marry Edward at all, and actually did try to leave him, Ernest flat out asked Edward if he had intentions of stealing her away and marrying her and Edward said that he indeed intend to do that; and literally said okay have her, despite the fact she made it clear in several letters to Ernest that she didn't want to do that, and made it clear via letter to Edward that she did not want to marry him and wanted to go back to Ernest and Edward threatened to kill himself if she left him. So Edward essentially forced a woman to marry him against her will, which is just disgusting, he's already disgusting for being a Nazi sympathizer forcing a woman to marry him against her will is just the icing AND cherry on top of the cake.
Back then you didn't deny the king
I find it odd that letters written to two different people on two different continents all find themselves in one place for the convenience of a biographer.
Is is obvious to me that Edward saw Wallis Simpson as a way of getting out of the throne. He knew beyond doubt that the ‘establishment’ would not accept her as Queen and he truly believed that by his abdication he could go back to living the life he lead as Prince of Wales…..but married. Little did he know that his life, after the marriage, would be a constant round of parties and boredom.