Wallis and Edward! WEIRD Relationship Explored: Traitor King

[@thevintageread]

To celebrate no more memberships on this channel 😂 I have released this one for everybody to enjoy! ❤🎉 xxx

[@Wildflowers516]

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[@corriepitt7630]

I subscribe but how does one become a member?

[@wendydownes6475]

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[@BuntyMcB]

You’re a lovely lady 🥰🇬🇧

[@cornelia9778]

He was a silly, silly man, highly embarrassing really. Thank goodness he wasn’t king during that devastating war. I could see H behaving just as stupidly. Thank goodness the opportunity hasn’t arisen for him to be a major traitor, just a minor embarrassing traitor which no one has chosen to punish.

[@linrob1312]

Yes everything that I have read on these two has made me think of those two in Monteshito.

[@Celisar1]

@@linrob1312 There is no comparing between MM and Wallis Simpson. Don’t insult Wallis like that.

[@linrob1312]

@@Celisar1 You need to watch a few more docos on Wallis. Their behaviour especially involving the Nazis is truly vile.

[@Sehara]

Now we have Walmart Wallis and her Ginger Handbag!

[@thevintageread]

😂💗

[@gabbyb4493]

The parallels between this couple and Harry and Meghan are staggering! History repeating itself!!

[@vallockett4850]

Rumour has it that Netflix wants to do a series/movie about Wallis starring WHO? Yup, you guessed it…Meghan. Mr De Mille are you ready for her closeup? LOL

[@Kasey2957]

Except Wallis actually had a fashion sense and knew how to dress herself.

[@voices_vary]

One of the most important things Churchill did domestically was to handle Edward and Wallis. They were loose cannons at a time when they could have changed history. Churchill understood what he was dealing with.

[@thevintageread]

He did! What an amazing man 🤗

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

Churchill was an amazing PM when most needed. Odd man though did most of his work through the bathroom door as he sat in the tub with cigar and whiskey.... still it worked a treat lol

[@claritadeluna6609]

@@ByHookorbyNeedles What was it i read about Churchill’s secretary who was nearby when he was giving himself a bath, smoking his pipe while dictating to her. I cannot remember details of it. Has anyone heard about it?

[@jeanne2583-w1n]

King George VI was also well aware of the danger those two posed. The Queen mother (man, could she hold a grudge) hated the two of them and blamed him for King George's early death, which I think is valid. Remember, Hitler called her (the Queen mother) the "most dangerous woman in Europe." That was one steely woman and was so helpful to King George VI.

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

@@claritadeluna6609 yes, this was a scene in something... was it 'The Crown"? He would famously have his secretary sit on the floor outside the bathroom in the hall and take dictation lol

[@Kari_B61ex]

Loved Traitor King. I found the comparisons between H&M and Edward and Wallace extraordinary. I'm going to have to read the letters.

[@thevintageread]

I will read snippets as “book bits” 😉

[@acommentator4452]

and didn't she deliberately ape the look of wallis, hair style and frock, for an oprah interview.

[@lynnetteross995]

@@acommentator4452 M has done it several times, the red trousers, top and trailing neck scarf, also the white outfit worn to the late QE II celebration in Westminster Abbey. Just google images MM and Duchess of Windsor clothing.

[@MyOpinion633]

Just finished the book too. H & M are almost a parallel life, living off of friends, playing faux royals etc. Edward seemed immature, mummy issues, not interested in supporting the work of King yet wanted all the frills that went with it. Not sure why Wallis got away with playing around, supposedly she was not that attractive - but maybe she had “other wares”. Like I said, so similar to H&M it’s scary. Seems there is one in every generation of the Royals 🤨

[@fibanocci314]

@kegs176 There really is one in every generation. Duke of Windsor's grandfather, Edward VII, for example. I don't think there were any in Victoria's generation only because Victoria was the only one in her generation to survive very long, but her uncle (George IV?) from whom she inherited the throne was someone Victoria's mother considered too immoral for her daughter to be around.

[@natashacassiere8759]

You are getting better and better at story telling. Beautifully done video

[@thevintageread]

Thank you x

[@891Henry]

Edward, now Duke of Edinburgh, had a TV show (I believe in the 1980s) called Edward on Edward. His view of his great-uncle and namesake couldn't be lower. He considers him to be a traitor.

[@rachmunshine9474]

Funny, I was just thinking poor current Duke of Edinburgh well, I was thinking Edward in my head but having to share the name.

[@charliekezza]

His grandmother hated Wallis and Edward, the Queen wasn't a fan and she was only allowed back in the country when Edward died just once by the Queen Mum. So it's not a surprise that he was brought up to hate his uncle too.

[@Anna_Key]

That sounds interesting. I'll need to look that up.

[@KeiPalace]

This is because they considered that the Duke his brother's death was hastened by the stresses of becoming King when no one expected it, plus Edward made them pay through the nose for royal properties@@charliekezza

[@martharamirezdelacruz5106]

The royal family blamed him for the death of his brother. Queen Elizabeth II's father had lung cancer and was always stressed due to the war with the Nazis. He was shy and had a stutter. However, he knew his duty to his family and country and that's why the church and the government made sure Edward abdicated due to his Nazi allegiances and how easily manipulated he was. MI5 and MI6 knew the Nazis were friendly with Wallis and Wallis controlled Edward.

[@sarahhayse-gregson689]

The parallel between Edward and Wallis/Harry and Meghan is hard to ignore. Of Wallis’s relationship with Jimmy Donahue, Marcus Anderson and Tyler Perry seem to be a “friendship” that doesn’t quite feel right. Harry was never to be king, thank God for small mercies, however a lot of his behaviour seems very similar to his great great uncle.

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

What I find interesting is something I had heard that Diana had supposedly said once regarding the boys and being King. Diana was said to stated that she wished Harry had been born first, as William was very shy and reserved. She felt that a life in the public eye wasnt for William, but that Harry would cope well with it. Now, if she did say this, its interesting how wrong a mother can be reading her own childrens personalities... though her death certainly would have played a major role in changing their perspectives.

[@LynetteMcGrath]

You have to wonder at the genetic forces in the House of Windsor. There have been some no-so-great human beings amongst them - Edward Duke of Windsor, Prince Andrew, Harry. and that is only in living memory. Harry could have copped a double whammy because (excluding the current Earl Spencer) there are some nasty traits in previous generations of Spencer men too.

[@cloudybeforerain7134]

The way Perry presents his entrance into the whole story during the Netflix doc isn’t remotely believable. He claims he took a call from a woman he’d never met and opened his home (and private jet), to her because her claims about the RF sort of sounded like what his father did to his mother. I don’t believe it. He’s either extraordinarily gullible (unlikely for a billionaire film producer), or something else is going on. I’m for the something else.

[@partlycloudy3519]

​@@ByHookorbyNeedlesdiana never said that .

[@thevocalcrone]

@@ByHookorbyNeedles Diana would have been unstable at that time. She hasn't accounted that a person can be shy and reserved but confidence can be developed. William still is reserved to an extent. H has no filter. :D

[@phylissbrassey8431]

It sounds like he was the blueprint for Harry!

[@carrieannmcleod5219]

Sounds like they latched on to anyone they could freeload off of. Couple of grifters and leaches. UK certainly lucked out by the abdication.

[@ctlilbit]

England really dodged the bullet when David decided to abdicated. George V1 ended up being the man for the job during WWII.

[@johnlarkin3821]

A J P Taylor said there should have been statues all over the country to Wallis, because she had taken Edward of the throne...

[@sandysox]

He thought Hitler would win ...he would get the throne and Wallis would be queen

[@Grannysouth]

If history does indeed repeat itself, it seems M&H have rough times ahead of them. Time will tell.

[@arlenejoan6209]

Excellent video. Shauna, no one grasps events the way you do. It’s why you can skillfully tell a story so vividly. It’s an amazing talent. Thank you for sharing.

[@thevintageread]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@suebarner8364]

The H&M thing has a real whiff of the Windsors…yikes! makes me soooo grateful for my lovely uncomplicated, delightful life!!

[@thevintageread]

I know!!

[@marylyn3081]

Thank you for releasing the video to us. I'm fascinated with the traitor King.

[@acommentator4452]

he really was, the docs prove it now, urging the nazis to keep on bombing britain to wear them down, so they will sue for peace. so little did he care for his fellow countrymen, that more would be killed, so nazism could triumph in all europe

[@andersonomo597]

THANK-YOU Shauna! What an intriguing review and I can 'borrow' the audio version from the library! It's read by a man with a lovely voice, so I'm going to try that option as it's a good way to keep amused while doing boring chores! Gosh, over 1.5K views in the first hour of posting this - and very well deserved!! Can't wait to see you hit 50k subscribers, guaranteed to happen in time!!

[@thevintageread]

Yes love audio books when I’m cleaning and cooking!

[@jacquiquarterman4795]

Great idea to listen to books while doing boring chores.

[@barbraluce5706]

I enjoyed Traitor King. Wallis seemed to delight in demeaning the Duke and both were freeloaders and cheapskates.. Jimmy D was really a very bad lad. Excellent review, Shauna!

[@thevintageread]

Thanks!

[@LynetteMcGrath]

Thank you for covering different topics/books. I am giving myself a mental health day and refusing to click on any videos about Omid or the Montecito duo.

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

Good call Lynette, sometimes we got to give ourselves a break from the drama, take care

[@RussiaIsARiddle778]

I’m the same. I am over at all. I don’t wanna hear anything about them.

[@PamM-io2py]

I’ll second that!

[@thevintageread]

Same! Break until the 28th for me then…Omid’s book 😂

[@LynetteMcGrath]

@@thevintageread We truly appreciate that you will read it so we don't have to. Thank you for your service!

[@katetucker1452]

Thanks for making me love my quiet and modest little drama-free life even more, Shauna.

[@thevintageread]

😊🤣👏

[@mario-qi3yw]

I never knew Harry and Meghan were so similar to Edward and Wallis. There are so many things you read that sound similar to the Sussex’s now. I think that there is a mentally ill gene in that family that hit second sons. I know Edward wasn’t second, but Andrew and Harry? Thank you Shauna, I’m going to add this to my must read list.😊

[@thevintageread]

Great!

[@acommentator4452]

but his father was, remember, who became geo V, his older brother albert victor died just before marrying, so his fiancee mary moved sideways, married george.

[@LynetteMcGrath]

All the more reason to keep H away from Prince Louis so he can't implant his rubbish ideas into that boy's brain.

[@cynthiamckenzie1034]

The late Prince Philip said he couldn't believe how much like megs was to wally.

[@edd9032]

Fascinating and revolting at the same time. Ugh 😳 but you're a good storyteller. I appreciate you🤗

[@thevintageread]

I appreciate that

[@happygirl8298]

I loved all the juicy bits you pulled out of the book. I can see Harry’s wife partnering with Marcus Anderson to exploit and humiliate Harry.

[@thevintageread]

Thanks 😊💕

[@susie2366]

I think that she and Doria likely do a fine job of exploiting and humiliating Harry all the time.

[@annelousteau9799]

I love everything you do and say, Shauna. You could have been royal yourself, Darling. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@thevintageread]

Ahhh maybe I am 😂💗

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

@@thevintageread lol, Duchess Shauna has a certain ring to it

[@joannaholland1113]

You have the perfect voice to narrate audio books!!!

[@Patricia-r7t8f]

Actually I heard an opinion that Edward was "encouraged" to abdicate due to his connection with the Germans

[@thevintageread]

Yes I say that 😊 Wallis was just the excuse!

[@theguest4516]

I had alot of angry towards that woman.🤨 Than like a bolt of lightning 🌩 It occurred to me if it wasn't for that woman. We would have had a King that sympathized with N*zi!!! Could you imagine!?! 😱😱😱 So, I'm very grateful for That Woman. Funny how history happens. Will always call her That Woman though. 😉🤣😉 Take care and have fun!!! 😎😀😎

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

Yes indeed, can you imagine a world in which UK was ruled by a Nazi King? It doesnt bare thinking about.

[@pollyparrot9447]

Noel Coward said that there should be a statue of Wallis Simpson on every village green in the land in gratitude.

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

@@pollyparrot9447 lol, I like the idea of that

[@silva7493]

REALLY, really, weird. I wonder how anyone could stand these people...

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

Well I suppose being able to say you had dined with, met, been at the same party etc as the King who gave up his throne was exciting for some? Shallow people lol

[@silva7493]

@@ByHookorbyNeedlesYes, I suppose so. It's hard to imagine, though.

[@alexwyler4570]

only 38k followers after such tantalizing storytelling? Something is wrong with the KZbin algorithm. Well told!

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

Agreed, all we can do is keep liking and stay subscribed and share videos. I love it when I'm watching KZbin and an unexpected video from Shauna pops up... I immediately stop watching whatever it is I was watching and go to her video lol.

[@thevintageread]

I’m a tortoise! 😂 Thanks 💗

[@suzannebrown945]

Yes Shauna, My opinion as well, what about the Old Sailor bit……😳 EDIT Thank you finally someone who says it how it is…..How people will spin….

[@RussiaIsARiddle778]

If I may be permitted a second comment, I would be absolutely humiliated. If I were a married woman, and another man was buying me 13 dresses, and/or first. My pride would just never allow that. Certainly, I would love to have generous friends, but my feelings of independence and self-worth would find it humiliating. I can only imagine how my husband would you feel about that. I would never offend him in such a way. I know aristocrats are much more open about “adultery“, but still it must’ve stung the Duke of Windsor. How do you ever get over what you have given up? “I was the king of England“. I feel the same way about, another prince far far away from home.

[@fibanocci314]

Especially as he was once the other man showering married Wallis with presents.

[@DutchJoan]

Dear Lord, the Windsors were worse than I'd heard before. I'm rapidly losing sympathy for Wallis.

[@wendysing9741]

I love the way you ended the review....leaving us to figure out more deeply the relationship between Wallis and Jimmy. Shauna, you're a great storyteller. 👏❤️

[@leslieacoca5876]

I absolutely love your reviews...fascinating, and very Englishly weird and twisted.

[@thevintageread]

Love that! 😂

[@lauriehepinstall2636]

I love your reviews. This one was spot on. Silly silly man sums him up

[@moreadsAlot]

Shauna, have you read “The Woman Before Walls” by Bryn Turnbull? It’s another look at the Duke before Wallis. I enjoy all your book talks. Like others, I’m puzzled why you don’t have more followers. You rock!

[@thevintageread]

Quality over quantity? 😂😂😂

[@diannemckenzie2356]

I have read this book several times. About the Duke and his preferring married women.

[@martharamirezdelacruz5106]

I think that the reason he preferred to sleep with married women was because if a child was conceived, he could pass it off as the husband's child. In the end, he married Wallis who was infertile.

[@janebaker4912]

​@@martharamirezdelacruz5106 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@timmythecat7478]

Having seen a small number of doco video's featuring old photos and videos of both Wallis and Edward, I simply am unable to wrap my head around the "thought" that any man could find Wallis Simpson physically attractive. I have no information about her personality or ability to maintain any interpersonal relationships, but physically Wallis is hardly an "IT" girl of her time.............

[@seaside-cowgirl]

Oh my. You need to start you own book club!! I saw this book and simply had no interest. After listening to your summary I’ve somehow gone and bought the darned thing!!! 😊

[@thevintageread]

😂💕

[@Loobylooto2]

You’ve been Vintaged 😂😂😂😂 Happened to me with Paul Burrell and jade pinkett Smith 😮

[@seaside-cowgirl]

Ha ha!!! Yes, I’ve been vintaged😂

[@idgriffin56]

Fascinating. Leaves one wanting more. Great delivery!

[@thevintageread]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ruthsnively7248]

Thank you for such an interesting review. I enjoy your videos so much. I learn a lot. Thank you. Also, I love your earrings and outfit. You always look so nice .

[@thevintageread]

That’s lovely! Thanks 💗

[@lynnetteross995]

Andrew Morton has also written a fascinating book about Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor - "17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History". The 17 carnations referring to the flowers sent to Wallis after her affairs with a German spy.

[@thevintageread]

Yes! I have it 😊

[@WeezerPort]

I believe the biggest cover up in history, is going to be those invisible children in the line of succession!

[@Loobylooto2]

I’ve got this too I’m due a re read but my to read pile is huge after discovering Shauna 😮

[@nolaparker9574]

Love seeing the book Black Beauty in the background. First book I read.

[@SydneyClearCognitive]

Love it.......the ending is dramatised perfectly :.......13 framed photographs of Wallace Simpson... woooohoooo

[@thevintageread]

But creepy! 💗

[@Inismoon]

The relationship was his way out of being King and she never wanted to marry him why she did? In my opinion she wasn't able to return to her husband. Edward and Wallace ended up lonely lives one only needs to look at pictures and read accounts of them by the way W at the end of her life all her famous jewelry stolen along with priceless antiques sadly money once again doesn't bring happiness.

[@marylyn3081]

That jewelry was allegedly found after her death. Insurance fraud?

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

I always felt like they had to marry and stay married because they, or perhaps just David felt he had to show the public 'look my love was genuine and my relationship lasting... I could have been king.' But certainly, although there was a time that she wanted to return to her husband she knew he wouldnt have her.

[@erinobrien8793]

Edward threatened to commit suicide. Wallis didn’t want to divorce her husband at that time but felt she couldn’t avoid it. So she was manipulated into a marriage with Edward.

[@marylyn3081]

@@erinobrien8793 She had every opportunity to not marry. She chose to marry or be socially ostracized. That's a choice.

[@rw4754]

Perhaps Harry is the reincarnation of King Edward.

[@thevintageread]

😂

[@marilyncrowley3303]

Please don’t disparage former King Edward…😵‍💫

[@dv7361]

It certainly feels like he’s heading down the same path. Harry’s mental health is only getting worse

[@elizabethroberts6215]

……loved this book! Bought my own copy, after reading Library one. Britain dodged a bullet when he abdicated. He was a very stupid man with arrested development at 14. His relative, the ginger dimwit has A D at 12. The D o W was definitely a Nazi sympathiser. He, allegedly, told about Allied plans for battles’ in France, to the Germans’. For that he should’ve been court-martialled for treason, & in a time of war, penalty was a death sentence. Another book Andrew LOWNIE has written is, ‘The Mountbattens’.………also well worth reading……

[@BlueInk912]

💯.

[@parkwood6334]

13 photographs of Wallis in Jimmy's bedroom- what a cliff hanger.

[@charliekezza]

So glad wallis came in and took the thrown away from him. Brits might be speaking german otherwise.

[@gjohnston5910]

Your reviews, particularly this one, are so much fun. I'm sure The Traitor King would be a good beach read, but I much prefer to just get the gist of it from your delightful video.

[@thevintageread]

😊💗

[@avissmith8384]

You tell a great tale Shauna. ❤ The lives some people live eh! Glad mine is boring along side of theirs😂😂

[@cindyroberts5053]

Isn't it funny how history repeats itself!!! IE...harry & mm

[@RamothJoy]

Just a small correction. Hitler was never voted in. It’s an understandable mistake a lot of us make. Love your videos.

[@thevintageread]

True… but in 1933 when he was appointed, it fell short of a dictatorship, just! Within a few short months he started killing opponents!

[@alicemilne1444]

@@thevintageread Dictators don't get elected by popular vote. Even though the SA and SS had been terrorising voters throughout the latter part of 1932 and the first weeks of 1933, Hitler still didn't get a majority vote in March 1933. He was only able to just scrape over the 50% mark through a coalition with a small far-right party. It is also important to stress that Hitler was not elected Chancellor. The parliamentary procedure for electing the chancellor would have been to have all members of parliament vote on that. The government having collapsed after the failed election in November 1932 and von Papen having been relieved of office, Hindenburg (the president) was ruling by virtue of emergency powers and Hitler basically twisted his arm into appointing him as chancellor.

[@suupkalvers2244]

​@@thevintagereadLet's be honest, did the British Empire not do exactly the same? (not judging here, more like 'people in glass houses...') I do not say I like his ideas, after all my country of birth was invaded and under siege 6 years, but we should not forget what 'our' countries did to gain power. May that be the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, just a few countries with an unsavory past. And lets not forget the massacre of Natives in the US, the Maori in New Zealand, the Aboriginals in Australia...

[@gremlin5622]

What point are you trying to make? Invasion, slavery, murder has gone on between groups and within groups since the beginning of humans. We ought to learn and do better. No wars should happen but they do - usually backed by rich opportunists to make themselves richer and more powerful. But when the Nazis took control in the 1930's they had to be fought against and stopped.@@suupkalvers2244

[@erzsebethyoung]

​@@thevintageread... Does it remind you of Hillary Clinton and JFK Jr where Hillary wanted to get rid of her opponent for the NY Senate Seat 💺 because her biological father was Nelson Rockefeller, a charismatic womaniser say his friends, and was a NY Senator.

[@stephanietaylor8003]

This is next on my list. I'm currently finishing AL's Mountbattens book so now looking forward to starting this one. I love your reviews ❤

[@thevintageread]

Wonderful!

[@marlenaamalfitano2727]

I think they were pretty sick and he was awful. Well, they both were, but he was supposed to be king. Before the wedding, Wallis did not want to marry him, but felt trapped, according to letters she wrote her ex.

[@angierucinski5694]

The end was truly bizarre; a probable self-unaliving and 13 pictures of Wallis Simpson? 😲

[@carmelcritchley3037]

Thanks Shauna, really enjoyed hearing new revelations here. I also love how your bookshelf contains a moving feast of good reads. 😻👏👏

[@thevintageread]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@userMelC]

I've never heard of this Jimmy Donahue before. Really enjoyed this video and thank goodness he abdicated. King George was more suited to the throne, albeit, reluctantly, he did his duty and did it well. I've always felt there were parallels between Harry and Edward and to an extent, the two couples. From what I've read and seen, Wallis didn't really love or want to marry Edward but he abdicated the throne for her, so much like Diana and the printed tea towels, it was too late. They seemed to have lived such superficial lives - much like H&M.

[@maureenmoran5465]

Read this very good book well worth a read, I was shocked at how Edward was happy to sell his country down the river just so hitler would install him and Wallis back on the throne fascinating story 🤬🤬

[@harrietwoolever6180]

Homosexuality was also a crime in the UK as well as Germany.

[@thevintageread]

Crazy! I’m glad it has changed!

[@Wildflowers516]

Another interesting video Shauna …. Thank you 😊

[@thevintageread]

My pleasure 😊

[@BumbleBee666-u5t]

So interesting and amusing, had no idea about these two. Great video!

[@alicemilne1444]

Sorry, but there hasn't been a "King of England" since the last one died in 1702. The Kingdom of England ceased to exist in 1707 when it was merged with the Kingdom of Scotland to become the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[@thevintageread]

I apologise

[@ynys_mon6928]

@@thevintagereadAnd what about Wales! Sorry…couldn’t resist, as a Welsh person. I agree with my Scottish cousin that it’s very annoying when it’s all about England. On the other hand having done some family history research, I’m mostly Welsh with a smattering of English, whereas my husband has Welsh, English and Scottish ancestry, plus a smattering of Irish, Channel Islands and even Italian ancestry. I suspect most of us in the UK are mongrels!

[@OG_Bearcat]

Great story! Certainly enlightening.

[@jacquelinearcher1158]

The Germans promised to reinstate him as a puppet king 👑🙈🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[@bonnieparsons557]

I’ve read a few books about this two people. Wallis was an early Meghan Markle. Going for the best one ( future king) I think Edward was gay or went both ways so to say. They were friends with the Germans especially Hitler. He was afraid of Churchill I believe. He gave up the throne for “the love of his life” but kept sticking his oar in. He complained about everything they made him do. He still lived like a king with all the best of everything. Another spoiled rotten person. I don’t believe Wallis was in love with Edward. I think she was living on his tailcoat and reaped the good stuff.

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

Agreed, I think Wallis was in love with being in love with a King and when that didnt come to pass.... Well one can hardly not marry the man who told the world he was giving up the throne just to marry her, now could she? Ok, maybe today a woman would lol, but back then... nah, it wasnt done lol.

[@Chin-Wagging]

Wallis was never in love with Edward and nearly “escaped” him: He threatened to kill himself if she ever left him. That threat is what trapped her. She made the most of a bad situation, but near the end of his life, she didn’t even visit his rooms.

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

@@Chin-Wagging agree, she didnt love him. For David I think the need to marry and stay/be married was more to do with saving face with the RF and the people of the UK. He was very desperate.

[@fibanocci314]

I think she knew/suspected that after all that fuss was raised and he's wouldn't let her now out gracefully, if she left him she'd never catch another rich husband. She was getting older and her name was already scandalous for having cheated with him, if there was even a hint that she was just gold digging . . .

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

@@fibanocci314 certainly another contributing factor for sure.... though she did seem to keep men interested as she aged, her affairs are testament to that. Though that could aslo have been someone wanting to 'rub' shoulders with her to be nearer David?

[@reneej7594]

Giving up a king for a Queen!! 💀

[@thevintageread]

Exactly!

[@francesknight2614]

I have always thought that Edward was so nieve politically, that he took everyone and thing at face value. Just like Harry. Thank God they (the royal family) have brought in someone with intellectual and emotional maturity.

[@lauralott2741]

Fascinating! You read so well. I’m starting to see where H got most of his genes from. And M a reincarnation of Wallis.

[@agnesvanya2329]

Great review! Another view of Edward can be found in "Little Gloria, Happy at Last", a biography of Gloria Vanderbilt by Barbara Goldsmith, which I read many years ago. He was dating Gloria's aunt Thelma. Thelma was finding "the little prince" boring, needy, and a hopeless lover. She begged her friend Wallis to take him off her hands and the rest is history.

[@thevintageread]

I'll check it out!

[@charmainerichter6954]

OMG Edward & Wallis sound like H&M indeed!

[@jamesjeffries8281]

I've obviously lived a very sheltered life! 😳

[@thevintageread]

😂💗👏

[@ByHookorbyNeedles]

In comparison, dont we all lol

[@mlentz1975]

Hiya, Shauna 🌞 Fascinating book and fantastic “synopsis” of tantalizing bits 😃👍🏼 By the way, I’m trying to start a trend of referring to M as “This One’s wife”, “Tom’s younger daughter”, “Samantha’s Sister” etc…. I’m hoping that her name stops appearing in the media. That should cause her to stick up on those patches 😆

[@fibanocci314]

Personally like "this one's wife." I've also used "the Mrs."

[@fibanocci314]

"Walmart Wallis" is also fun and apropos of this video.

[@jlennon1779]

Henry's consort

[@jlennon1779]

Trevity-TrevTrev's ex-wife ... been a while since I've used that one, sorta cumbersome to type and my phone keeps wanting to correct me 😂

[@felicityrostron9406]

It sounds like history repeating itself with H and M it could be their story. Fascinating stuff

[@debbieclark7031]

David wasn't very bright and was very immature. I think the government would have jumped at any chance to get rid of him. Wallis saved England from the horrible reign of Edward VIII.

[@VKing-di9lo]

I have always thought Wallis was quite masculine in appearance and if Edward was bi sexual, it could have been quite an attraction to him.

[@sandysox]

How facinating....mad bad and sad...what a life.....

[@valerieforbes8096]

I’ve read the book and his resemblance to Harry is amazing.

[@gibbersking6575]

You know, this was kind of a spooky storytelling for me. Your tone, as you brought your presentation to a close, made me gasp and I felt that if I looked over my shoulder to my bookcase, I would see thirteen photos of Wallis!!

[@thevintageread]

😂💗

[@jimbaker9616]

Edward and Wallis, Harry and Meghan. Two great examples of what my grandmama meant when she said "No matter how dented the skillet, there's always a lid to fit it".

[@thevintageread]

Love that! 😂💗

[@MariaCordi]

Edward very much seems a selfish man. He abdicated putting his own needs over duty. Had he been born second, like H, he would have similarly been jealous of an older brother's position. That's just how his personality comes across. Both Edward and H also acting traitorously because they wanted their own way. Eerie echoes. IMO and allegedly.

[@lbc517]

Read this book recently. These people were wild!! Lol. Love your storytelling.

[@thevintageread]

So good!

[@lbc517]

@@thevintageread he is working on a book about Prince Andrew, should be interesting.

[@marieross]

Gorgeous old copy of Black Beauty. Love a browse along your book shelves!

[@thevintageread]

It is a lovely one 😊💗

[@traceybeagle9934]

We have this book ...so good !!

[@junebyrne4491]

I could almost feel sorry for Edward, but he really was so silly no

[@astridhinderling36]

Just a beautiful "indirect" comparison!!!

[@lisajohansson4028]

Spot om again, Shauna! ❤ Lisa Johansson Gothenburg, Sweden

[@biggyziggy5777]

How silly was Edward ? … well how long is a piece of string ?

[@Annie-yv7rc]

Really interesting chat thankyou

[@FireflyXOXO1]

Are we not all worried about poor Harry?

[@GCons60-fn9mv]

Appalling couple of grifters...as you say so reminiscent of another couple we know. This book sets out so clearly, backed up by evidence, how much of a traitor he was - encouraging the bombing of British cities as a way of forcing the British Government to agree an end to the war, was particularly repellant. As you say, I think the Government realised how bad a King he was and manipulated him into abdicating by which time, Wallis found herself in a situation whereby she had to marry him. Lucky for us they did!

[@marywest2896]

have your read Lady C's book about the Queen Mother? let's just say Lady C had connections that told a whole new side of the Queen mother!!!

[@thevintageread]

I started too… I just couldn’t. I was introduced to her via the Noel Coward Diaries and the two books were on opposite ends of the scale! I may tackle it at a later date 😂💗

[@jamieevans-wk7it]

My members only was refunded to me. I now can't find a way to rejoin. It's like it completely disappeared. Anyone else have this happen. Or is google/youtube blocking me.

[@thevintageread]

Jamie I turned the membership off. Glad you were refunded 😊💗 You are not being blocked or ghosted at all and you are very much appreciated. I left all members a note about it in the “community” on the main channel. 😘

[@madz48261]

Fantastic reviews. It was well known that Wallace never wanted to marry Edward, but his neediness gave her little option. Not surprising that the idle & vacuous rich played silly palour games all day.

[@LS-mp7co]

I cannot wait to read, "The Traitor King." I have studied David and Wallis over the years and the great "love story" was very much one sided and sad. I have always wondered if David fell for her so hard because she was the only one who treated him badly. Everyone else was such a yes man and kissed up. It must have been quite interesting to David to constantly have to "chase" the affections of Wallis. All the other young English roses were willing and sweet where Wallis was mean and distant. We, as humans, always want what we can't have.

[@BettyBooper-z1i]

Those wacky Windsors! Now that would be a good mini series:)

[@BananaHammock2001]

My god! What was it about that woman that she had such power over men?! It certainly wasn’t her beauty. I’m honestly dying to know.

[@flyonthewall8122]

I'd imagine it was a lot like what Harry told his pals about Meghan before they married: "She lets me do anything." Most men are simple beasts, after all. It's just the way they're wired.

[@erinobrien8793]

Wallis was a great conversationalist, hostess, and loyal friend. She made anyone she talked to feel they were the most important person in the room. She was stylish, cultured, and came from old money - even though her immediate family didn’t have much.

[@JenMaram63]

Iknow what you mean, but - look at the people they were hanging out with. Incredibly rich, bored, sycophantic, morally vacuous people. Would she have had the same impact on an everyday normal man?? I doubt it.

[@DeeBullock1836]

@@JenMaram63maybe that’s why Wallis was such a Nazi sympathizer

[@pollyparrot9447]

Excellent talk! 'Petulant and silly man' - that sums him up.

[@avm9647]

Hitler was popular with parts of the British aristocracy ie the Mitford sisters

[@thevintageread]

Yes I made a video about Diana Mosely 😊

[@lindalatto7304]

I am playing online solitaire while listening to you. Sounds an awful lot like someone named H... the poor pitiful

[@thevintageread]

Live Solitaire!

[@ealeclerc9524]

Great job reviewing "Traitor King." I read it last year but missed a few things you discussed. I do remember having a creepy feeling after reading the book. They were awful and pitiful at the same time. . Thank you the great video.