Sun Apr 29, 2012, 12:33 AM
Shocking letters hidden for 76 yrs reveals Edward VIII's Abdication was orchestrated byLast edited Sun Apr 29, 2012, 12:45 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
the Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang.
snip The cause of the conflict between the King and his Archbishop appears to have been a question of style as well as traditional morality. snip He stooped to blackmail and rumour-mongering, falsely alleging that the King was mentally ill and an alcoholic. snip A devastating private letter was sent to Dawson that said: ‘My dear Dawson, I have heard from a trustworthy source that His Majesty is mentally ill and that his obsession is due not to mere obstinacy but to a deranged mind. More than once in the past he’s shown symptoms of persecution-mania. This, even apart from the present matter, would lead almost inevitably to recurring quarrels with his ministers if he remained on the throne.’ Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136672/The-madness-King-Edward-VIII-Shocking-letters-hidden-76-years-reveal-Archbishop-accused-Monarch-insanity-alcoholism-persecution-mania--forced-abdication-crisis.html#ixzz1tOtwfOBZ 
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 Shocking letters hidden for 76 yrs reveals Edward VIII's Abdication was orchestrated by (Original post) |
snagglepuss | Apr 2012 | OP |
| Suich | Apr 2012 | #1 | |
| snagglepuss | Apr 2012 | #4 | |
| eppur_se_muova | Apr 2012 | #21 | |
| msongs | Apr 2012 | #2 | |
| snagglepuss | Apr 2012 | #5 | |
| MADem | Apr 2012 | #3 | |
| jberryhill | Apr 2012 | #7 | |
| MADem | Apr 2012 | #8 | |
| GCP | May 2012 | #32 | |
| MADem | May 2012 | #36 | |
| Seeking Serenity | Apr 2012 | #16 | |
| patricia92243 | Apr 2012 | #10 | |
| eridani | May 2012 | #34 | |
| roguevalley | Apr 2012 | #23 | |
| MADem | Apr 2012 | #25 | |
| Major Hogwash | Apr 2012 | #26 | |
| MADem | Apr 2012 | #28 | |
| DefenseLawyer | Apr 2012 | #6 | |
| ashling | Apr 2012 | #9 | |
| MADem | Apr 2012 | #11 | |
| roscoeroscoe | Apr 2012 | #14 | |
| LeftishBrit | Apr 2012 | #12 | |
| renate | Apr 2012 | #13 | |
| TalkingDog | Apr 2012 | #15 | |
| obamanut2012 | Apr 2012 | #17 | |
| obamanut2012 | Apr 2012 | #18 | |
| jberryhill | Apr 2012 | #19 | |
| snagglepuss | Apr 2012 | #20 | |
| TorchTheWitch | Apr 2012 | #22 | |
| obamanut2012 | Apr 2012 | #24 | |
| GCP | May 2012 | #33 | |
| MADem | Apr 2012 | #27 | |
| Bob in CT | May 2012 | #31 | |
| UTUSN | Apr 2012 | #29 | |
| Skidmore | Apr 2012 | #30 | |
| Manifestor_of_Light | May 2012 | #35 |
Response to snagglepuss (Original post)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 12:41 AM
Suich (8,834 posts)
1. Small point: It was Edward Vlll, not Vll.
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Response to Suich (Reply #1)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 04:21 PM
21. He craves Your Majesty's pardon. He has had a long journey here and miscounted... nt
Response to snagglepuss (Original post)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 12:43 AM
msongs (30,479 posts)
2. hmm sounds like his "persecution-mania" was entirely justfied lol nt
Response to snagglepuss (Original post)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 12:45 AM
3. Well, the guy did a good thing, at the end of the day.
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Eddie and Wally were fans of Hitler. Had Germany won the war, they would have been the Puppet Royalty of the British Empire.
...In 1941, while they were holidaying in Florida, the exiled former king and his consort, now the Duke and the Duchess of Windsor, were spied upon by the FBI on the orders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. These FBI files, written in the 1940s and now released under America’s Freedom of Information Act, detailed that the Duchess might have been passing secrets to a leading Nazi with whom she was thought to have had an affair and that His Majesty’s Government had known for the fact for some time.
Following Edward’s accession, the German embassy in London sent a cable for the personal attention of Hitler himself. It read: “An alliance between Germany and Britain is for him (the King) an urgent necessity.” In October 1937, the Windsors visited Nazi Germany, met Hitler at his Obersalzberg retreat (above), dined with his deputy, Rudolf Hess, and even visited a concentration camp. The camp’s guard towers were explained away as meat stores for the inmates. The visit was against the advice of the British government and during the visit the Duke gave full Nazi salutes. At the outbreak of war, the duke served as a military liaison officer in Paris. Hitler made an abortive attempt to bring Edward and his wife to Nazi-sympathetic Spain, and greatly alarmed, the British establishment finally packing the duke off to the Bahamas from 1940-45. Deeply disenchanted by the society that had spun him, the Duke made his Nazi sympathies explicit, once telling a journalist that “it would be a tragic thing for the world if Hitler was overthrown”. In another break from his usual unassuming boyish behavior, he remarked, “After the war is over and Hitler will crush the Americans. We’ll take over. They (the British) don’t want me as their King, but I’ll be back as their leader.” After the war, the duke and duchess returned to France. He died there in 1972, while the Duchess lived on until 1986.... http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/edward-and-wallis-with-hitler/ |
Response to MADem (Reply #3)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:02 AM
7. Well, it's not as if "Windsor" was the original family name
Response to jberryhill (Reply #7)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:07 AM
8. Yep, they were a long ways from their native land!
Response to MADem (Reply #8)
Sun May 6, 2012, 04:34 AM
32. It wasn't the nose she led him around by
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Response to GCP (Reply #32)
Mon May 7, 2012, 07:40 PM
36. Well, a nose by any other name would smell like....feet?
Response to MADem (Reply #3)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:13 AM
patricia92243 (7,550 posts)
10. Thanks for the post. I always heard that it was the Nazi stuff that made the powers
Response to patricia92243 (Reply #10)
Sun May 6, 2012, 05:38 AM
eridani (38,399 posts)
34. Very interesting
Response to MADem (Reply #3)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 08:34 PM
roguevalley (32,807 posts)
23. he also was a terrible racist telling government officials of the wrong color persuasion
Response to roguevalley (Reply #23)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 11:35 PM
25. Not the nicest guy in the room, certainly. nt
Response to Major Hogwash (Reply #26)
Mon Apr 30, 2012, 09:11 AM
28. That was owing to the romanticized "woman I love" speech!
Response to snagglepuss (Original post)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:00 AM
DefenseLawyer (8,399 posts)
6. I think the fact he was a nazi had a bit more to do with it. n/t
Response to snagglepuss (Original post)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:55 AM
9. Will no one rid me of this medlesome priest?
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Response to snagglepuss (Original post)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 04:19 AM
LeftishBrit (29,611 posts)
12. The Daily Mail is a sensationalist rag
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Response to renate (Reply #13)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 08:53 AM
15. Nope. Post like yours are part of the best of DU. You know the subject well
Response to renate (Reply #13)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 09:14 AM
obamanut2012 (9,971 posts)
17. You saved me from writing this, thanks
Response to renate (Reply #13)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 09:18 AM
obamanut2012 (9,971 posts)
18. Also, as you stated, Wallis didn't even really want to marry him
Response to renate (Reply #13)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 11:31 AM
19. Didn't they put Prince Albert in a can?
Response to renate (Reply #13)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 11:39 AM
20. You are just spouting the spin that came with the Abdication. The Queen Mother was
Response to TorchTheWitch (Reply #22)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 08:45 PM
obamanut2012 (9,971 posts)
24. You know the Nazis planned to make put him and Wallis on the throne
Response to obamanut2012 (Reply #24)
Sun May 6, 2012, 04:49 AM
33. They never invaded Britain because Hitler believed in Goerring
Response to snagglepuss (Original post)
Mon Apr 30, 2012, 10:32 AM
UTUSN (34,861 posts)
29. Good for Cosmo that he dumped the Nazis (even if it wasn't his #1 goal); bad he saved the monarchy
Response to snagglepuss (Original post)
Mon Apr 30, 2012, 11:49 AM
30. This author of the biography on this situation is on "The View" now.
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Response to snagglepuss (Original post)
Sun May 6, 2012, 04:58 PM
35. Edward VIII/David did not want to fight his German cousins. Simple.
