Such an interesting time for the monarchy. King Edward would've been a disaster for the future. Thank God for King George VI.
@johnkeller60639 ай бұрын
Y'all should thank Mrs Simpson
@netram289 ай бұрын
At 9:07 the narrator seems to imply that it was his investiture as Prince of Wales that made the Prince next in line for the throne. The Prince had been next in line from the moment Edward the 7th died,. He would have inherited the throne even without the title Prince of Wales had his father died before the investiture.
@simonf89027 ай бұрын
Correct.
@jilltagmorris9 ай бұрын
This was WAY BETTER than i expected. Lotsnof different footage! ❤😊
@mrskenscott96439 ай бұрын
Great doc. Lots of different footage I've never seen. Thanks.
@christibaldridge21999 ай бұрын
There COULD NOT have been 2 living Kings in Britain in the 1st place. Edward wouldve continually sought to undermined King George VI, and King George VI would NOT have taken too kindly to it.
@suemcgregor92487 ай бұрын
George's Queen simply wouldn't have it
@deanedge59889 ай бұрын
Excellent - in its use of archive film; fresh historians who were not the usual former polytechnic DEI maniacs (who are neither representative or diverse); and a clear mission simply to present and explain this timeless story for a new audience. Well done.
@leonblittle2268 ай бұрын
Be in do doubt, the Crown being on the head of George 6th is exactly where England and the World needed it to be.
@michaeljohndennis22319 ай бұрын
Many decades, if not almost a century later, in Spring 2024, all I can feel about the current state of our world today, even since 2020 is a deep sense of heartbreak and total despair, coupled with a deep and fearful sense of foreboding at what is yet to come in the years and decades ahead - I earnestly hope and fervently pray for direct divine intervention from Almighty God to resolve our current heartbreaking situation in a way that no earthly effort of mankind can ever come close to possibly achieving 💔😪😔🙏
@evansquilt9 ай бұрын
IN which case I assume you're going to vote for Biden instead of the fraudulent rapist named Donald Trump.
@TheMotz559 ай бұрын
Get a grip
@michaeljohndennis22319 ай бұрын
@@TheMotz55 please wake up to the truth and reality about everything that has happened all around us since 2020 - I once thought like you, but I have had to wake up the hard way and I’ve had to drop many of the delusions that I’ve once had about life up to 2020
@TheMotz559 ай бұрын
@@michaeljohndennis2231 So willfully ignorant. All 50 states certified the results. Everyone of the dozens of court cases went against Trump. Please, stop with the spiritual abuse
@florencehall94459 ай бұрын
Excellent documentary ….. but Why does the music have to be so loud?. It drowns out the commentary.
@johnkeller60639 ай бұрын
King George 6 th was a great king and good man . He thought his daughter Elizabeth well. Also maybe the UK should thank Mrs Simpson as well.
@louiseowusu2469 ай бұрын
This is a fascinating documentary but the music makes it hard to concentrate on.
@rw47549 ай бұрын
Edward & George had an abusive, sadistic nanny also. She was fired when Queen Mary found out.
@annhewett96229 ай бұрын
Calling Edward the Viii as handsome a stretch. Like calling Charles and Camilla virtuous
@ravinp3719 ай бұрын
Did anyone else laugh a little when someone said Wallis Simpson was loyal?
@AndreTNY9 ай бұрын
I mean was she not sleeping with Ribbentrop behind Edward’s back? She was a schemer to be sure.
@AndreTNY9 ай бұрын
I eventually had to stop watching as the apologists for Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII were insufferable. I look forward to their work on Prince Harry and his wife in the future.
@xristinamamatopoulou25193 ай бұрын
Θα ειναι αυτος που θα τον κανουν βασηλια κ δε θα το περημενει 😂
@alanbrown95209 ай бұрын
Why did you say Miss Simpson? She was Mrs Simpson
@JerryWilson-y9z9 ай бұрын
GOD SAVE THE KING 👑
@mikealvord559 ай бұрын
George the sixth wasn’t the first monarch to be king while his predecessor was still alive ever heard of Henry the sixth and Edward
@herondelatorre40239 ай бұрын
@mikealvord55 : What about Queen Mary II and her husband King William III reigning while Mary's father former King James II was still living. Also a few centuries earlier when young King Edward III was reigning his father former King Edward II was still living for about 8 months after being overthrown until his wife ( Edward III's mother ) had him secretly killed.
@mikealvord558 ай бұрын
@@herondelatorre4023correct, I just didn’t want to go on and on
@kevinellis83079 ай бұрын
I’m just Wowwed… I was aware of most, but still this brings everything to light.
@user-lc9qc3rp1k9 ай бұрын
Even if Edward and Wallis remained king and queen, George the Sixth still will become king as they didn’t have children because Wallis couldn’t . This would mean Elizabeth the second will not be queen in 1952 but later making her reign shorter than 70 years.
@kmrose9 ай бұрын
If Edward and Wallis had remained King and Queen, then the Nazis would've invaded the UK.
@nmr69883 ай бұрын
For those complaining about the loudness of the music, it's your older speakers which are to blame. Mine have a feature that balances out the two different stereo streams. It's not really the fault of the makers of the documentary.
@bob-gz7px9 ай бұрын
Really, interesting and well done. Thank you.
@herondelatorre40239 ай бұрын
1936 : The year of three British Kings : King George V : January 1 to January 20, 1936 : : King Edward VIII : January 20 to December 11, 1936 : : King George VI : December 11 to December 31, 1936
@GodisMyNo19 ай бұрын
King George V, the queen's grandfather was the best king ever, but he is so underrated
@iTammy6 ай бұрын
These Royal men from the past had beautiful blue eyes!! That was the first thing I noticed when I saw footage from them! Even black and white footage shows that! Very handsome men 😊
@michaeljohndennis22319 ай бұрын
Given the history that we have truthful accounts of, I am very critical of the Edwardians from 1901-1910 as they totally abandoned their sense of duty and moral values, so highly prized in the Victorian Age and they also squandered the benefits of the conquest of empire, threatening its safety, security & stability and the gains made in the Industrial Revolution - their hedonism and selfishness also unwittingly created the conditions for WWI to happen in 1914, regardless of their reasons for their actions
@kmrose9 ай бұрын
They forgot mention about Wallis' involved with the Nazi ambassador too. Yes, she was just as bad Edward VIII. They deserved each other.
@LS-fd6tl9 ай бұрын
15:30 - Describing Wallis as "loyal" she cheated on her SECOND husband with her future THIRD ffs 😂 Edit: you can tell she's a feminist, 3/4 the way through now, and she's full on defending and trying to portray Wallis as a good person/victim 🙄
@NIckyFromDunedin9 ай бұрын
the Windsors as we know them today are not the English royal family, they are the British royal family, i have never heard them called the English royal family before and the music is way too loud, im afraid i cant watch any more, i tried with the subtitles on but it's too painful, perhaps you could adjust the level of the music
@sharynkhan11049 ай бұрын
Edward the 8th and Prince Harry are very much alike, both good looking and both had and have great personalities and compassion. Of course both married American women.
@unowen96689 ай бұрын
Great footage!
@carolinezook9 ай бұрын
There’s no doubt that George and Mary weren’t the best of parents but people, and especially one of these “experts”, can’t seem to realize that almost everything we know about them comes from a child who wanted to blame his parents for all his problems. None of the other children was such a loser. I’ve got to add that the reading of Wallis seems to me to be so woefully misplaced that I can’t even continue watching. Couldn’t the producers of this documentary afford to spend the money on a real expert?
@samkohen45899 ай бұрын
There is a great series The King and Mrs Simpson broadcast on PBS available on KZbin. Worth seeing
@sananselmospacescienceodys73089 ай бұрын
Everyone talks about how attractive King Edward was. I'm not seeing it. He wasn't exactly Brad Pitt.
@elizabethroberts62157 ай бұрын
………Edward was very stupid, & very lazy. He was improper with security of Govt. papers’. He just wanted to continue with his louche life. No loss whatsoever when he was made to abdicate. Great disaster averted.
@jorgecruzseda75519 ай бұрын
In Puerto Rico we have a 3 KINGS DAY😊
@pamelamays41869 ай бұрын
The Cystal Palace going up on flames was am ominous omen.
@mikealvord559 ай бұрын
The only criticism of this video is there are not enough commercials!
@clairedisapia8 ай бұрын
What an interesting year
@mariaangelesmarinramirez53769 ай бұрын
Thank you for the video it is very good.
@suemcgregor92487 ай бұрын
Edward's judgement was terrible, best he wasn't King during WWll
@susansurles37769 ай бұрын
This is more sympathetic to wallis than most documentaries.
@robertb40009 ай бұрын
1936 Jan : George V 1936 Jan - Dec : Edward VIII (abdicated for American divorcee) 1936 Dec : George V
@zanmei72619 ай бұрын
1936 Dec: George VI
@thereseayokor3289 ай бұрын
Nostradamus 👉🤴 Charles III, 75 years is going 🏝️👉 to abdicate👉? A person unforeseen !
@mikealvord559 ай бұрын
Nobody knows what the hell you even said
@BarbaraJoanneBJ9 ай бұрын
Oh no. Again, again , again, the overlay of hideous music that makes this unwatchable. Why bother with the upload?
@SkiiDreamr4209 ай бұрын
15:09 finally
@PedroSousa-kk6ls9 ай бұрын
make one about the yaear of three queens.
@sananselmospacescienceodys73089 ай бұрын
22:32 Couldn't they have found a bigger hat?
@yellyman54839 ай бұрын
There was no war in 1936. It was completely legit to deal with Germany at that time. The UK had mass unemployment an poverty. Germany did not have either. That is what Edward VIII admired. He thought the current tory PM did too little for creating jobs, and he also thought the tory party did too little for the unemployed.
@Desert-Father8 ай бұрын
Your opinion is very dated. Edward and Wallis Simpson were not simply interwar admirers of the Nazis, which is contemptable enough. They were sympathizers and collaborators, which is indefensible. After Edward abdicated, he and Wallis visited Hitler during their honeymoon. Wallis had affairs with Von Ribbontropp and passed him intelligence. Even after the outbreak of war, Edward and Wallis passed intelligence to the Nazis through Spain and Portugal as late as 1940. They were traitors. The recent declassification of British state papers confirms it.
@simonf89027 ай бұрын
George V was fully democratic. He assisted the Parliament Act of 1911 to ensure the House of Commons were superior to the Lords.
@JerryWilson-v2w8 ай бұрын
Will if this is true about miss Simpson. ( SHE COULD NOT LIVE HIM. AND HE WOULD SHOUT HIM SHIFT IF SHE LIVE HIM????) SHE ALWAYS GOT BLAMED FOR HIM???
@margaretmcallister54225 ай бұрын
Way too many adverts without using a filter. So I won't watch the channel ever again. That way the advertisers get 0% coverage. Well done.
@MartaluciaRoldanArias-br3xi9 ай бұрын
Pará Ser una monarquía absoluta, sé tiene que tener mucho dinero y sancre azúl ❤ Marta Lucía Roldán Arias dé Medellín Antioquía Colombia
@annmartin53479 ай бұрын
Britain stopped being an absolute monarchy on the execution of Charles the first, thanks to Oliver Cromwell, well over 500 years ago. The monarchy, as it is, was begun when Charles 11 was instated as King because Oliver Cromwell's son abused his power. Read history
@winkieblink76259 ай бұрын
2024 will be the year of TWO KINGS.
@Cold0livia1615 ай бұрын
King Charles lll and Burger King?
@emiliomariopile24003 ай бұрын
Thèse people making ananalysts of events are so annoying
@jeremyparsons49406 ай бұрын
While i enjoyed this I wish the sycophantic Anna Pasternak would stop turning up in these documentaries… she adds nothing but her romantic novelists view …