Wallis Simpson’s Fairy Tale Turned Into A Nightmare

It’s hard for us to imagine now, but during a certain era, people thought of Wallis Simpson as the woman who nearly brought down the British monarchy singlehandedly. Had Edward VIII not fallen for this scandalous American divorcée, the world would surely be a different place. So how did Simpson come to change the course of history? Let’s find out.
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[@victoriabernuth9728]

Over 60 years ago I stepped into an elevator at the New York Plaza Hotel. In the elevator was Edward and Wallis. They were quietly bickering. Even as a teenager I knew who they were. I thought, “Remember this moment”. I did.

[@annmcdonald6180]

fascinating, you shared history

[@daisyroots8926]

That’s amazing.. such a part of history.. I’m sure that she despised Edward

[@sharksport01]

She loved Edward, as much as she could.

[@canadianbrit]

​@@sharksport01I respectfully disagree

[@hellooutthere8956]

Should have asked for an autograph or better yet a token.

[@martagaines7272]

She was a good excuse for Edward to not be King. There were so many reasons these two were bad for England. You reap what you sow.

[@adelitavalle1852]

It was a great thing he abdicated the throne. Thank goodness for Wallis Simpson.

[@Poolberi88]

Wallis didnt bring down the monachy, Edward did. She didnt have that power. He did. He lived a life of excesses. She was just a social climber and unhappy in her marriage and looking for an outlet and validation and recognition. Got it from Edward, then could not extract herself from him. She settled, but didnt love Edward. She settled for fame and security and in the drivng seat, three things she didnt have.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Yes, sort of. She certainly didn’t want to leave Ernest, and thought Edward would cast her aside like all the others. Poor Wallis.

[@marirothbauer5407]

Edward was not of good character he was a party Prince along with his brother who later died in a plane crash. Edward was not fit to be king. One credit to him and Wallace they never trashed the Royal Familie lived in France until their deaths. Certainly very entertaining.

[@ellenchinn4049]

​@@user-fq8rs7rz3i😊

[@annatarassow-niechcial6094]

Like Meghan!

[@Poolberi88]

@@marirothbauer5407 yes absolutely

[@jimduffy7199]

Various mistakes, and lots of crucial bits left out - such as why the Royals refused to allow Wallis and Edward live in the UK. The government had discovered that he had been actively undermining Britain and supporting Germany in World War II, with Germany plotting to put Edward on the throne again when they invaded. Churchill had the file kept secret for seventy years. When Elizabeth II found it she told Edward in no uncertain terms that he and his wife would never be allowed live in Britain, as they were traitors, Legally they could have been executed as traitors. The file is now public and is damaging of that monstrous couple. They were two horrid, selfish people.

[@Curlyblonde]

While he was Govenor of the Bahamas, he kept regular company with a Nazi spy that was hanging around there, who he would pass information to. The Allies and the British Government had to cut Edward out of the information loop, but sometimes would purposely feed him wrong information to mislead the Nazis.

[@marirothbauer5407]

Wow Traitors ? Now is that not what Hasbeen is a Traitor Writi g a book about private matters 😮 and still bitching about his three sausages and William had four he is still an uncontrollable selfish child with no talent no skills except whinging and sueing people oops and a pathetic liar. Just read in the US a woman was in court for disposing of her fetus it is illegal now is that what Hazo & Nutmeg allegedly did according to them buried her miscarriage in the woods 😮 ah! There was never a baby and they blamed the press. Evil repeats itself.

[@deborahblackvideoediting8697]

Oh wow, I'd never heard that! I had heard that he was a nazi sympathizer, but had no idea he had been undermining his own country.

[@Prieze868]

Edward wasn't much of a man but he was foolish not to marry her while he was King and he would have been King and she would have been queen's so they wouldn't wouldn't have had any say the public wouldn't have liked it but they would have got used to it

[@jimduffy7199]

1. If he did he would immediately be out of communion with the Church of England, a mandatory requirement - as they could not recognise or celebrate the marriage. He would therefore be ineligible to be king the moment he married her. 2. Her first divorce was invalid in British law, as was her second marriage, as it was on invalid legal grounds in the UK. If he tried to marry her, she would be prosecuted for bigamy as in British law she was still married to her first husband. (England law only allowed divorce on the grounds of adultery. She got her first divorce on grounds of mutual incompatibility, an invalid ground in English law at the time.) 3. His governments across the commonwealth would resign, provoking a commonwealth-wide constitutional crisis which it was feared would lead to the abolition of the monarchy. 4. The British public would never accept that woman, with two living husbands, as queen. The monarchy only exists based on acceptance. Marrying her would be suicidal for the support of the monarchy. Marrying her was never an option once the governments, who had to approve it, said unambiguously 'no'.

[@kayewarden2266]

Edward and Wallis were perfect for each other. They physically resembled one another and were both morally bankrupt. They deserved each other.

[@johnbrereton5229]

​@@user_xsr Though only one is ginger!😂

[@dianawatton7570]

Just as Camilla and Charles deserve each other. I hope they are never happy together

[@inaabelis6312]

She’s still better than Harry’s wife. She never talked about the royal family. She was respectful.

[@ginaspurlding8590]

One was divorced the other single,they did nothing wrong, unlike tampon Charlie and the Rottweiler...

[@Dilley_G45]

Joachim 😆 the champagne merchant turned Foreign minister under Hitler. No, it couldn't have done more damage.

[@ceilconstante640]

Suzanne Blum, the attorney forged documents to give herself power of attorney over Wallis. She even took her Out dogs away from her. Wallis died in poverty. But when Edward was still alive, he would call out to Wallis and she wouldn't come to him. It was nurses who hugged and comforted him. I think it would have been a disaster if Edward was King during WW2.

[@hippyhop3913]

He was a traitor to our country, they blamed Wallis for his demise

[@jezebelproudfoot4976]

He would have rolled over for belly rubs from das fuhrer.

[@zoorpasha4993]

@@hippyhop3913 thanks , 4 your true fact and it's a fact in the secret archive some where that we will never publicly read but did hear that it was mainly at that time upheaval of 2nd WW2 ? but she indeed blamed with vengeance on every thing and the queen at that time then QM was the force behind the hate and the chase a well known fact?

[@user-xx1tm5fe9u]

Absolutely agree. Everyone hated her, but she was a blessing in disguise. Reportedly, it was difficult to distinguish the evil of Hitler at the beginning of things, when his economic policies were really helping Germany to recover from the financial disaster of WWI, but how blind do you have to be? Edward was naive and stupid, easily led, and she was a social climber, always looking for an opportunity. The fact that the Parliament and Anglican Church objected, and his subsequent abdication was a bullet dodged.

[@PhDrSeuss]

​😂🤣😅😆😄 i wouldnt put it past him 😂🤣😅😆😄​@jezebelproudfoot4976

[@gnomely1]

She didn't almost bring down the monarchy. It was of less consequence than had the King actually died instead. All that happened was that the King abdicated and his brother became George VI. The Earth didn't move and it passed over quite quickly. Edward was, in reality, not popular and was known to be a Nazi sympathizer. She and Edward spent the rest of their lives in exile, an object of mild curiosity as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Queen Mother hated her because she hadn't wanted her husband to become King with all that it entailed. However, she and her two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret were ushered reluctantly into the limelight. one positive to emerge was that without Edward abdicating we wouldn't have had Queen Elizabeth II. So some good came of it.

[@Roses-lilac]

The reason the Queen mother hated Wallace was because she wanted to marry Edward herself. She on;y settled for Bertie as second best. She always had ambitions to become queen. Like Meghan Markle. She had her eye on William. She only settled for Harry.

[@starrbowie8649]

This documentary does mention some conflicting theories and "facts" about the situation but not all, which is a pity. One story has it that the cause of the pressure on Edward VIII to abdicate had not only to do with his Nazi sympathies, but with a traitorous act of warning the Nazis about British military movements at one point, thus contributing to British casualties. His reign was potentially a security risk, not just a bad look because of orevailing social norms. A second story was that Wallis was in love with Simpson, and felt pressure to marry Edward because things had gone too far to pull out and there were fears that Edward would commit suicide if she didn't stay with him. A third interpretation, mentioned by Lady Colin-Campbell, is that she didn't despise him but in fact used her considerable social and organizing skills to maintain a home in which most of the regal treatment to which he had been accustomed was meticulously observed.

[@risingphoenix8072]

⁠@@Roses-lilacthere is no evidence that Meghan was “after” William - no woman was, except Catherine. All Catherine needed to do was exercise patience and wait. That is not a Wallis/Edward situation., and it is not a Henry Tudor situation. Wallis/Edward was instructive to show how succession is always assured. William and his three children show the same thing. Harry/Meghan do not factor in, neither did Andrew/Sarah or Margaret/Antony Armstrong-Jones. The truth is sufficient without making things up.

[@pamelaiverson5527]

What a load of absolute rubbish. Elizabeth Bowes Lyon didn’t want to marry into the Royal family at all, she certainly didn’t want Edward - David, she saw him for the weakling he was. Bertie had to propose 3 times before she agreed. Also, David wasn’t broke when he abdicated, he had over a million pounds, but he lied to his brother now King and got an allowance out of him and gouged him when he sold Sandringham House and Balmoral to the King.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

@@Roses-lilac Absolute rubbish. Anyone that knew Edward was aware of his dull and childish personality. He had a mental age of a 14 year old. Bertie on the other hand was feisty, fun and kind. Who would you want? Wallis didn’t want him either.

[@jodyharnish9104]

I read that at Christmas after Edward abdicated, the English were singing "Hark, the herald angels sing, Mrs. Simpson's nicked our king". 😅

[@melanievando2040]

It would have been a disaster if he became King. It was meant to be.

[@Curlyblonde]

Before his death, his father predicted that he would ruin the monarchy within a year of assuming the throne.

[@Oasis888]

A historic heist with a bunch of people stealing the Royal Jewels from Wallis and Edward would be a good Netflix movie.

[@sarahholland2600]

Recently discovered letters (it was all over the news a few months back) written by Wallis , show she tried to break the relationship with Edward off, saying he should remain King & put duty first. He threatened suicide & she gave in. Look up their wedding photos, she looks like she's about to slit her wrists. She also wrote to her ex husband for years afterwards, telling him how much she missed him.

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Yes, he was a real control freak. She was a victim of emotional blackmail. What i he had committed suicide? She would be vilified even worse.

[@JimiBegbaaji]

Yup! She was railroaded into the marriage. He simply was never husband material.

[@HepCatJack]

She was a dead ringer with a hooker named Marguerite Marie Alibert aka Maggie Meller, Marguerite Laurent, and Princess Fahmy who was Edward's first experience. Edward written to her during WWI and she used the letters to get away with murdering her husband. One of Wallis Simpson's lovers was Ribbentrop. Edward had poor judgment.

[@bevygaines]

He would not have k'd himself! Just a spoiled manipulator. Like she really believed that. She made him suffer forever for it.

[@Lynnefromlyn]

The rubbish Bs-open on here about the vile and nasty `Wallis Simpson - she who had the morals of an alley cat, was a gold digger and social climber, and was a Nazi sympathiser. Edward was weak, she was a vicious cow.

[@user-bd3cy2xk6y]

She didn't nearly bring down the Monarchy. If a monarch abdicates the next in line steps in. Smooth instant and efficient

[@hopenield8234]

Actually, because of the abdication George VI and even QE2 constantly worried that the monarchy would be overthrown in favour of a republic. Especially when war broke out against Germany because they were Germanic themselves. They changed their name to Windsor to look more British. Any change of monarch is so quick to try and keep it smooth and prevent the general population from getting ideas. And George was taking on a role that he had never expected to have to take and wasn’t trained for. He had a bad stammer which added to his problems. The stress of taking on the role his brother dumped on him led to an early death. Not surprising that the royal family never forgave Edward for abdicating as they lived with the consequences for the rest of their lives.

[@johnbrereton5229]

​@@hopenield8234 Monarchs are always fearful of revolutions and being deposed. In Britain this has always been the case, especially when their continental cousins were falling like leaves since the 18th century. As to changing their name, it was the Norman's who introduced surnames, before that a titled man could have 7 sons who would all ended up with different surnames depending on the estate they had gained. It's common to claim that the Royal family are German, however royal families marry into other royal families and it's just as easy to claim that the German royal families were English and that's why King George I inherited the throne in the first place. Our current King Charles III is descended from Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror and the Scottish Stuart dynasty too.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

You all worry too much. The Monarchy is safe. We certainly don’t want or need an American style president.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

@@hopenield8234 Edward was ousted by the government, with the backing of the Royal Family. Only he didn’t realise it. Wallis was just the convenient scapegoat.

[@alastairhopkins245]

@@hopenield8234 It was George V - father of George VI and grandfather of Elizabeth II who changed the name to Windsor after WWI

[@stellayates4227]

At 7.50 its stated that the King could marry basically anyone he wanted. I do not think this is correct as I believe a Sovereign could not marry a divorced person or a Roman Catholic without dispensation from the Church of England.

[@ForceFreeTrainergirl06]

You're correct. The King is head of the church of England and they did not approve marriage when one of them is divorced.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

True. She was completely unsuitable. But he could have had a morganatic marriage performed in a register office, and still remained King. He was just too stupid and stubborn to accept it.

[@cynthiastogden7000]

​@@user-fq8rs7rz3ithings have obviously changed these days then.

[@jeffreymorris11]

Since the British monarch is Head of the Church of England, he like Henry Vlll could do whatever. The reality is they were Third Reich, therefore pariahs.

[@ForceFreeTrainergirl06]

@@jeffreymorris11 Henry VIII lived in times where he was literally running the country and had ultimate power. Things have moved on since then, sweetheart, just in case you didn't notice? Since Charles 1 and 7 February 1649 the Monarch had NO power and parliament runs the country instead. The system changed to make sure that Monarchs no longer run the country but governments do. But you know, as I said, perhaps all that passed you by?

[@Nicksonian]

Two horrible people. Wallis and Edward were made for each other. They were two of the most despicable people ever to be in the public eye.

[@lisaconner7609]

History repeats itself

[@stellaburgoyne9473]

Now we have another two🤷‍♀️

[@Nicksonian]

There’s is only minor comparison. Edward was a Nazi sympathizer and visited Hitler before the war. Edward was KING and abdicated for this silly, scheming woman. Harry will never be king. While Harry has made some poor decisions and unfortunate statements, he doesn’t seem to be the jerk Edward was. Meghan? Well, she may be closer to Wallis.

[@lindadeal3344]

Only because Trump wasn't around to out scandalized them both.

[@VelveteenRabbit77]

You mean Biden. Did you read what he did to his wifes xhusband during their affair?? And after???

[@MaternalUnit]

Supposedly, Edward wasn't very bright and wasn't very interesting. Wallis grew bored with him quickly but could not leave him. After his death she said something along the lines that "Living the romance of the century was a bore."

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Did she? How perceptive.

[@user-eh3zv1ex5o]

She sure loved those benefits, though.

[@carrieannmcleod5219]

I'm sure Wallace and the Queen Mother held strong and mutual enmity. I wouldn't be surprised if the Queen Mother attended Wallace's funeral just to make sure she was gone.

[@angelachouinard4581]

If you've seen that movie The King's Speech, you will see what kind of people she and her husband were and why she didn't what the burden of being king on him. The movie is so accurate she said it would be too painful to watch herself. I am sure it's close to what you say and the whole family finally thinking at last it's over. Little did they know what was coming.

[@carrieannmcleod5219]

@@angelachouinard4581 I know Wallace caused a lot of trouble (and it's understandable why the family disliked her) but I watched a video where she didn't want to divorce her second husband and was ready to leave Edward but he threatened to off himself. At least U.K. was saved because of their actions.

[@angelachouinard4581]

@@carrieannmcleod5219 Ah she fell victim to be careful what you wish for.

[@elaineduker.6355]

​@@carrieannmcleod5219Wallis, not Wallace.

[@vseddonvs]

@@carrieannmcleod5219 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 spot onx

[@christynorman7288]

As my grandad used to say "you cant make a palace put of a prefab" & "You cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear" both referring to her plainess She alse was still writing love letters to her second husband - she wrote that she'd made a mistake and still loved him as Edward was very jealous and controlling. But it was too late. They had been social climbers together. But he overspent to stay on with the elite. Peace ☮️ out SW E ngland 🇬🇧

[@lisaconner7609]

History repeats itself-

[@shadowlouise]

It seems the narrator never heard the old saying. A sow is a female hog. It rhymes with cow. The narrator used the word "sow" rhymes with NO. It refers to planting.

[@michaelsnider2484]

Centuries of standard practice for monarch's mistresses who are married: husband looks the other way and gets titles and/or money until the king is done with their wife.

[@curtisdaniel9294]

Edward (David to his family), had a knack for pissing off his parents.

[@brianshepherd9927]

That’s why I love history! How decisions people make will affect the future! 😅

[@user-wl8rr7wb4y]

I could make all of the decisions in the world, it wouldn't affect anyone. I simply don't have that kind of power. I don't have the power to change history. I am too insignificant. I can change my life only. Nothing more. To circumvent history takes something I simply don't have.

[@tomvalveede6808]

Wonderful video! Packed with great photos and new information about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor!! Thank you! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!!

[@ashcoops6962]

History repeats itself...

[@juliaforsyth8332]

She was demonised and lied about, though she wasn't expecting that Edward would not dump her. Her letters that have been found recently, show how controlling Edward was. Very useful for a Government who was trying to get rid o him. A really useless King. 8th not 7th.

[@virginiasoskin9082]

Yes, he was infantile at heart, following her around like a lap dog. Too late, she realized that she had worked herself into a situation she could not get out of -- at first it was probably exciting to both her and Ernest to climb into Edward's social set, but soon Ernest probably realized that he had been supplanted. I don't think Wallis thought Edward would be so clingy-- she thought he would dump her just like he did all the other married women he had sex with; but that didn't happen. To her Edward was a social climbing ultimate goal. Bed him and then leave him or wait for Edward to dump HER. Instead he became OBSESSED with her and simply could not function without her. Her letter to Ernest just prior to finalizing her divorce from him is really sad - she asks him to pray for her on her divorce signing day, and that she is SO LONELY! Well, she got what she wanted and once she had Edward she realized she was trapped FOREVER with Peter Pan as she called him -- the boy who never grew up. Meanwhile the capable brother became the new king; even with a stutter, he was still made of MUCH sterner stuff and inner strength than Edward, so actually Wallis saved the British people from being let by the immature Edward through WW2. He would probably have given in to Hitler or at least tried to, while Churchill would have been totally aghast.

[@purplepoppyz]

I agree, Edward was a weak man and would have been a pathetic King. George VI was a fine King and 10 times the man Edward was. In the end I think Edward and Wallace were sad figures, friendless and isolated. Sad end really. As for Britains role in WW2 being different if Edward was on the throne? Nonsense. Clearly some people do not understand the role of the Royal family. The democratically elected UK government make all decisions regarding the state not the royal family, who have only a ceremonial role in government. It’s why the UK democracy is rated so highly in democracy world rankings.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Poor Wallis. All she and Ernest wanted was the business connections that their friendship with Edward would bring. She fully expected to be dumped like all his other women. Oops. Talk about getting more than you bargained for.

[@vseddonvs]

@@virginiasoskin9082 Believed with all you stated,I as an English woman who has only ever known one Queen but read up on the Royal Family as my Dad was a RSM in the British war time Army he spending many years in India, told me lots of stories about who he met and mixed with so I had lots of information about the royals through my dad long before all these stories came out,so Edward and Wallis reaped what they sowed,thanks for sharing x

[@user-eh3zv1ex5o]

Choice....that most dangerous word.....for it always leads to Consequence.

[@LBStew]

"Sow's ear". Sow pronounced like Ow! As in a response to something painful.

[@tanyas6643]

The comparison between Wallis and Meghan are silly. I suspect that it actually came from the Mexit camp. Harry is nowhere near as important as Edward (David) ever was.

[@angelamorrow8973]

Meghan has a sick obsession with copying fashion looks of Wallis and Diana. The woman is clearly psycho.

[@bevygaines]

So does Kate, is she a psycho???? Envy much????

[@tanyas6643]

@@bevygaines huh? What about Kate?

[@bevygaines]

Wearing clothes copying Princess Diana. Someone said Meghan was psycho for doing it.

[@eddybowe2953]

That whole family is a mess. Just look at what these so-called royals have been involved in? Affairs during marriage. Shady Prince Andrews mess with underage girls, and that's just what we know of! Who know what other skeletons are in their closets. No one with any brains would want to be part of that mess.

[@karphin1]

And no one mentioned that as Head of the Church of England, it wouldn’t “look good” for him to marry a divorcee! It wasn’t “just” about the government.

[@st69854]

Times sure have changed.

[@carolholly1608]

She Would Have Been Divorced TWICE!!!

[@GreenmanXIV]

George V said "After I am dead the boy will ruin himself within twelve months." To a friend, he said, "I pray to God that Edward, will never marry and have children, and that nothing will come between Bertie and Lilibet and the throne."

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Correct. And PM Baldwin made his wish come true. Poor Wallis got the blame.

[@user-sq7ul2if7p]

So King George V have foreseen it..

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

@@user-sq7ul2if7pYes, and wanted it. People that knew Edward knew he wasn’t fit to be king. He had a mental age of a 15 yr old.

[@labridgers8264]

That was one homely, homely woman.

[@virginiasoskin9082]

I know! Of course, if you gave her more modern fuller eyebrows, and a fluffy modern hairstyle, she could have looked at least, well, not homely anyway....heh heh. Most of us don't see what Edward saw in her. However from what I have read she was very sociable and charming. Edward also liked the fact that she was American -- he liked things American including the fashionable clothes he wore. She would talk back to him in a free American type of way without that British awe, and he also found that very refreshing. For him she was unique and lovable. OTOH, Wallis enjoyed hobnobbing with the rich royals until she realized that Edward was obsessed with her and would NEVER let her go (he even threatened to kill himself if she left him); so she was basically trapped unless she would have chosen to just leave him. But the risk of him doing himself harm was too great so she stayed with him, and that was that.

[@carolinenorman6141]

My dad made laugh one time we are from Scotland and if you say your house is homely it means warm and welcoming. In the 1940s my dad was in America and telling people their houses were homely ...lol

[@christinehall6441]

​@@virginiasoskin9082rumoured Edward was a closet homosexual, who like dominitrix wallis. Remind you of anyone in the present day?

[@allysonlewis1730]

I’ve always had a theory that he just didn’t want to be King and figured out a sure fire way to get out of it. I can’t blame him…I wouldn’t want the job either.

[@heatheryfeathery1]

When you think about it, the royal family has less rights than everyone else. They usually don’t get to pick their profession or even their spouses (as in the queen or king can refuse).

[@user-te4of2fq5d]

❗England, with Baldwin's help, dodged a bullet with this one. A complete disaster for the nation had he been King during WW2 !

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Yes. Wallis was a godsend. They made sure she got the blame. Nothing could be further from the truth. He was ousted and he didn’t even realise it. When do you think he twigged?

[@andiemorgan961]

14:14 'The English Royal family.' This should be, 'The British Royal family.' The last reigning monarch of the kingdom of England was Queen Anne! England is a constituent country of Great Britain, including Wales and Scotland with the Province of Northern Ireland making up the United Kingdom. Hence the name of my country on my passport is - The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Edward VIII would have been king of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of India. Today, Charles III is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 Commonwealth realms. P.S. The newspapers would have circulated throughout the UK not just England, informing the WHOLE of the British population. P.P.S. Cannes is pronounced with a silent 's'.

[@E-Kat]

Are you British or English? I suspect neither.

[@E-Kat]

Are you British or English? I suspect neither.

[@andiemorgan961]

@@E-Kat I'm a white indigenous British citizen. Born in Wales and have lived in England for over 20 years. Why else would I mention the name of 'my country on my passport?' I'm sick to the back teeth of the UK being wrongly represented as solely being England. I've given sufficient information in my OP. I have both Welsh and English ancestry. I'm MORE British than the present Royal family - they're of German descent. The House of Windsor is a fabrication. Look up their real name. My name Morgan belongs to the ancient Britons, originating in Wales and Scotland. This is my final reply to your stupid question.

[@elaineduker.6355]

The pronunciation on this is dire, I gave up, so many people seem to have difficulty spelling Wallis, even when it's in the heading.

[@CharlieJoe42]

As to History repeating itself ... "If people do not learn from the mistakes that other people had made in the past, all, then, doom themselves to repeat them in the present as well as perpetuate those mistakes well into the future"!

[@hellooutthere8956]

Whether you liked them or not I find it ironic they were so vilified while the king you have now 1) divorced his wife,the mother of his children, and future queen. 2) married his long time mistress, (also divorced) 3) made said mistress The Queen of United Kingdom.

[@angelamorrow8973]

It has to do with the Church of England. The monarch is the head of the church. In the 1930s divorce and remarriage was forbidden. Edward could not marry a woman with 2 living husbands and be head of the church. It wasn’t until a couple decades ago that the church changed their view on divorce. That is why Charles can be married to Camilla now. Even when Anne remarried she couldn’t do it in England. She and Tim married in Scotland instead.

[@susanross1651]

@@angelamorrow8973everything you said is true, times have changed, but it still upsets me that Charles and Camila got everything they wanted, the selfish pair having destroyed Diana to get there. I know Diana was far from perfect, but she was very young when she was groomed to be his wife, she probably thought she was in a fairly tale, that soon turned into a nightmare.

[@Lynnefromlyn]

What the hell does criticising the older couple have to do with not criticising `Charles? We do that too! But that doesn’t give vile Simpson and Edward a free ride. They were both disgusting parasites and Nazi sympathisers!

[@m.h.6499]

Didn’t Charles and Camilla have to do a civil ceremony? That is, not a church wedding. Then a special “blessing” in the Church, but not a wedding. It’s only what I remember, not 100% sure.

[@angelamorrow8973]

@@m.h.6499 yep they did

[@leightongarner6431]

This was very well done. A large cut above most of this biographies on KZbin.

[@jeanmarie4462]

I think you meant to say, Elizabeth II's marriage, not Elizabeth's second marriage. 👑🕯🇬🇧

[@grimtt]

Thanks, I was confused about that line 😂

[@PLuMUK54]

Americans tend not to use "the", it would have been Edward 8th, George 6th, and Elizabeth 2nd. If you listen carefully, the narrator, he stumbled over the few times when he included "the" in the titles.

[@cberry6751]

The Duke became king & inherited the 50,000 acre Balmoral & also Sandringham. Those two estates were owned privately & went to him when his dad George V died. David sold the two properties to his brother for millions. He also had an inheritance from his father & grandmother. He wasn’t destitute but he spent lavishly. He wanted Wallis to dress like the queen she was “robbed” of & so he showered her with jewels designed just for her. When she died, her jewels were sold at auction & brought many millions. During their marriage, the couple sponged off of everyone. They paid for very little when they traveled because David felt entitled.

[@lesley7321]

Wow who does that remind one of today

[@rosemeccia9411]

I met Edwards personal secretary. He was very kind she said. Didn't care much for the American she Did not treat him well or anyone else.

[@user-ym3xf6xp4c]

The person that shines in all tge images is lovely queen elizabeth. Her gooness steadiness and lack of vanity shine out. She was the gest thing to come from all the scandal...the best monarch england could have.

[@shadowlouise]

Somewhere among my possessions, I have a copy of "Some Favorite Southern Recipes of the Duchess of Windsor." The money from the sales of the book went to the British War Relief Society.

[@thedowagerd.2431]

I have a copy as well.

[@boniw698]

I use to do the hair of a then 80+ year old lady back in the early 1980’s who was a hat check girl back in the day in New York at some swanky nightclub and she to that very day considered it an honor to have taken the shoes off of this ole crypt and put on her nightclubbing shoes. 🙄

[@always_b_natural703]

The English royal family are of German heritage. I think it's likely that Edward could have made a deal with AH to be put back on the throne when Germany won the war. It was his best bet to return to his throne, although I'm having a difficult time believing that AH would have followed through on such an arrangement.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

I think that was just another of Baldwins rumours. And poor Wallis got all the blame.

[@user-eh3zv1ex5o]

AH was just a puppet in a major production. MONEY runs the Show.

[@KnawedOne]

There are documents that support efforts to return to the throne if Germany won the war.

[@sudenims5235]

In later years she treated the duke poorly. She talked down to him. Constant affairs in her younger years shows narcissism.

[@maryettamoody5079]

His relation with Hitler was sick

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Yes, so we’re a lot of peoples. Even Americans.

[@annetterohla8932]

Adolph Hitler was a Rothchild,a Jew.This video stated that Edward was staying with the Rothchilds,who along with the British royals(Queen Elizabeth the First)were opium dynasties.The Rothchilds built the Knesset in Isreal;own the Federal Reserve;and the Central Bank of England;and founded Tavistock Institute in London,England where Hitler and the Jewish cocaine addict Sigmund Freud attended,and the Freemason Beatles and Rolling Stones originated.Defund anti Christ "mental health".Psychiatry is forbidden by the Scripture -pharmacea is the Greek word for withcraft - drugs and poison.

[@renatewest6366]

Edward only befriended Hitler because he promised he would reinstate throne to him.Also same thing happened with Kaiser's son.Edwardcwadnt really a Nazi but appreciated the false deference that Hitler played to Wallis.The Queen Mother wasn't a very nice person.Quern Elizabeth was a much better and nicer person.The way the Queen Mother treated Prince Phillip was absolutely appalling

[@annetterohla8932]

@@renatewest6366 The video says that Edward was already living with Hitler's family,the Rothchilds,before Hitler ever came to power.The Rothchilds built the Knesset in Isreal.We know what a carrot and stick operation this appears to be.Hitler was a Rothchild.His father's mother was a household servant to them,and when she became pregnant with him,she left their household.The Rothchild House of International Banks own the Federal Reserve,and the Central Bank of England,and established Tavistock Institute with another opium dynasty,the British Royals.The Jewish cocaine addict and pagan homosexual Jew A. Hitler both attended Tavistock,where the Freemason Beatles and the Rolling Stones came from.Defund"mental health"(anti Christ psychiatry).The Bible says not to be involved with pharmacea,the Greek word for withcraft - drugs and poison.

[@PSA3377]

@@annetterohla8932 thank you fr your pro-bible testimony 🙃

[@alanbeattie1470]

If Edward VIII had not abdicated, Her Royal Highness, The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh would have become Queen in May, 1972. Her father died 20 years and 3 months earlier and would never have been King...

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Yes, but do you really think he would’ve lasted ‘til 1972?

[@barbaraallen435]

Walis did tge UK a favour when she took Edward off .

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Oh yes.

[@E-Kat]

This is running on the loop; just to let you know.😊

[@takohamoolsen2486]

Read '17 Carnations' by Andrew Morton. It was von Ribbentrop.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

I have, but I just don’t believe it. They said a lot of terrible things about Wallis which weren’t true. The government and press never change do they?

[@velocepeyet]

He couldn’t marry “who he liked” because when he became King he also became the Head of the Church of England and the Bishops were very powerful. Rumours of mistresses were one thing but marriage to a divorced woman whose husband was still alive was adultery in the eyes of the church- also in the Roman Catholic faith.

[@Grace-tc1lq]

She was still married, not divorced when they began their affair.

[@annewalden3795]

​@@Grace-tc1lqYes that is correct and I think she wanted a good time rather than abdication and marriage .

[@Eugeniadella]

I came here to learn of the threat of the secret lover..... Dissapointening.....just regular info

[@joancampbell9157]

You seem to be confusing England and Britain or the UK. England is one country in the UK therefore the now King Charles is king of the UK. It is extremely rude to the other countries of the UK, ie. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to be ignored in this way.

[@petereastwood7868]

@@sharksport01. Joan is right, and you’re a jerk. Get over yourself.

[@Nick-fg4dq]

Good point joan

[@Fran_van_der_Geld]

Northern Ireland is NOT a country. It's not even a province.

[@Susan-oe1ht]

I don't think thats true of the Irish.

[@Susan-oe1ht]

😅

[@LaraFabans]

I bet the royal family showed up to Wallis' funeral to ensure she was really dead and not going to spring up and wreck havoc some more.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Wallis didn’t wreak havoc, Edward did. Wallis didn’t want Edward, she wanted Ernest, and fully expected to be cast aside like all the others. But she got more than she bargained for. Poor Wallis.

[@elvirafeher4254]

​@@user-fq8rs7rz3i She played with fire and got burnt. Should have kept her knickers on and be faithful to Ernest.

[@bbelindamorris6384]

*wreak havoc, not wreck

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

@@elvirafeher4254Ernest encouraged her to ‘charm’ Edward. It gave him so many business connections. Neither of them thought Edward would fall for her. When she tried to break it off Edward threatened suicide. She was trapped and couldn’t get away from the situation. Just imagine being stuck with someone with a mental age of 14 and you didn’t love.

[@thedowagerd.2431]

Wallis would have been happy to remain the King's mistress considering the many perqs which would come to her husband and herself. It was considered a beau jeste in some circles to lay down your wife for your King. Read some published diaries of the in-crowd from the day. They were a busy bunch.@@user-fq8rs7rz3i

[@user-gu1jk4qn6b]

Used to have a great breakfast buffet, at the Vint Hill Inn, not really a hotel in the (then) Virginia countryside. It really was quite pretty. The first time I went, was mid 70s. Now, of course, houses as far as the eye can see, suburban sprawl.

[@kevmac1230]

How exactly does one who's never really had a job retire?

[@desilanni8144]

They stop traveling to their office.

[@constance875]

She’s definitely not much to look at. Idk why he was so smitten unless her personality was spectacular.

[@Curlyblonde]

She was apparently was taught well in the bordellos of Shanghai how to perform in the bedroom. She was there for a couple of years with her first husband.

[@sharonroller8849]

He wasn't much to look at either, all based on money and fame, social climbing

[@thedowagerd.2431]

This was very well done.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

No it wasn’t. Full of errors.

[@sharonmiller868]

People make Edward and Wallis to be this amazingly loving couple. In fact, things have come out showing just the opposite. He was a brat who went off with her and she thought she would be rolling in the money, and yes I do say history is repeating today with the current gold digger and the whinger. I don’t blame the Queen Mum's stance on her at all.

[@gabrielleoshaughnessy9255]

Hogwash. Prince Harry and Princess Meghan are the only decent members of the Royal Family. Well, I admire Catherine for her loyalty to a cheater, for the sake of the children, but it’s high time this facade of fake royals be taken down. There hasn’t been a drop of true royal blood in any of them since the 1500’s. Philip had affairs throughout his life. We all know about Charles and his whore. People want to ignore the fact that Philip didn’t father Andrew OR Edward. Anne had a divorce just like Margaret, Charles, Diana, and Andrew, but people make it seem like Meghan is terrible for having a previous marriage. Hypocrisy at its finest. May Prince Harry and his beautiful wife have long and happy lives. The rest deserve the constipated misery they create for themselves.

[@JustMe-uu3bh]

I tend to want to believe the workman who opened the queen's freezer/refrigerator and looked at the contents. I believe them 1000%.

[@lisaconner7609]

History seems to repeat itself

[@mariainman3618]

wow....

[@teresarammel5891]

Wow she was a piece of work.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

So was he. Fancy being lumbered with that dullard for the rest of your life!

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

But no more than any other social climber. She just bit off more than she could chew. I feel sorry for her.

[@jenniferbrown5688]

I agree that Wallis and David were not nice people at all, but feel that Wallis was the worst one having other lovers while married to David, he was so amoured with his wife I doubt he wanted to have a relationship with anyone else. Sad really that she didn't love him, he must have realised after they married that she had been unfaithful and been devestated.

[@canadianbrit]

Wallace simpson was intersex.......she couldn't have gotten pregnant. And you completely omitted the part where wallace's friend had to go away and told her to take care of edward, which she did a littlee too well

[@angelamorrow8973]

That friend was the twin sister of the mother of Gloria Vanderbilt. So the great aunt of Anderson Cooper.

[@GH-hh8cm]

Totally unproven

[@benjigirl1971]

What a load of crap. And can you at least spell her name correctly?

[@canadianbrit]

@@GH-hh8cm lol riiiiii8ght. OK! Lmao It is widely believed and accepted this was the case but you do you boo

[@ninagill1407]

@@canadianbritshow me where it is widely accepted. Where’s the proof?

[@DelaniaAndTheDogs]

Well done! Thank you.

[@apuiitochhawng]

Why criticize the Royal family for their reception of Wallis when the Duke was brought back for burial. After all she was just a ruthless social climber.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Yes she was. But neither she or Ernest could have bargained for what happened. Unintended consequences are a bitch.

[@SMytfa]

Hadn't heard this pronunciation of "dalliance" before.

[@doggyteabreaks9362]

16:54 fwiw the 2nd American Duchess wore a very similar looking dress in black in 2022 during the so-called Windsor walkabout after the passing of QE2 17:27 sorry to say but the Duke of Windsor does look like what is described nowadays as a 'simp'! In his old age he also resembles Prince Andrew imo 17:38 the tall young man wearing the top hat & morning suit is the current Duke of Kent, QE2's oldest surviving cousin, born as Prince Edward & was 18-19 at the time. He is walking in train with his uncles, as his father had passed away by then.

[@lorrainemudd5022]

Very sad I always felt they should have let him marry. Just look at Charles divorced married to Canali also divorced

[@juliehake2635]

A repeat by Megan Markle. Same social-climbing personalities.

[@Glamrockqueen]

Why do these sites always get an American voice to do English pronounciations? So many mistakes.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Pronunciations. Leave the second o out.

[@Glamrockqueen]

@@user-fq8rs7rz3i Wow you got 1 little spelling mistake out of all that. Never mind the shit video?

[@charliecroker6445]

The Archbishop of Canterbury put pressure on the then Prime minister to make the King choose , the British royal family were basically German with sympathies to the German goverment of the day , they stayed together and got shafted by the rest of the Royal family , but it was probably the best decision considering what happened in 1939 . There is a story of the Duke of Kent being murdered in a plane crash in Scotland during the the war as allegedly he was going to meet a high ranking defecting German officer .

[@lindacuttic6383]

I had a duke in my life. My dog!,

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

So much better.🤣

[@rosezingleman5007]

Cannes is pronounced Kahn. Either AI audio is lousy or the person reading isn’t familiar with Wallis and Edward’s story, or movie awards or France.

[@walking_in_the_shade]

​@@Stephaniewashereyes step hen who cares?

[@user-te4of2fq5d]

🍸💅 Not born into it, marrying old money was the only option for women seeking prominent social status in this era

[@rdyrdyp]

Nothing new or worth rehashing.

[@lillianmcgrew217]

So sad 😔

[@audreymcleod6262]

I believe thst markle studied. Everything about the royals Wallace Diana and nd Catherine she has a fixation. On the those. Women

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

You’re right she did.

[@margaretreid2153]

As per usual the American narrator leaves us, New Zealand 🇳🇿 out of the equation,we were and still are a member of the Commonwealth!

[@CQ-369]

I had always heard Wallace Simpson was a shopgirl!! No idea she traveled in such rarified circles. I'm American, so what do I know. Haha. Thanks for this fascinating video.

[@Elysian777]

The crown always has propaganda spread about those who step out of line. PR firms that do 'image control'. They tried to do it to Diana and are now doing it to Meagan and Harry.

[@virginiasoskin9082]

She came from a rather well off ancestry but with her father dying so young, she and her mother depended on an allowance from Wallis' Uncle Sol. She went to a rather tony girls' school in the US. I think she always looked for men who would provide her with financial security because she had not been financially secure as a child.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

@@Elysian777 Not to Diana they didn’t. She was too loved by the people. The press on the other hand are lethal.

[@Elysian777]

Yes, they didn't get away with it with Diana, but they tried.@@user-fq8rs7rz3i

[@annetterohla8932]

Diana was related to the Jewish Churchill,and I have heard also the Goldmans.

[@robinrainmaker7232]

In English, it is pronounce “can” ….like a can of beans.

[@sharksport01]

We pronounce it Cannes like anus with a C.

[@kerriganm]

Um… no it’s not.

[@robinrainmaker7232]

Um? Who really gives a Shite? Pronounce it your way. Do I really care?@@kerriganm

[@LBStew]

​@kerriganm yes it is.

[@annm.7176]

With Wallace not able to have children that's Ron would have gone to Elizabeth the second anyway. And you would think that after this mess Harry would have been smarter.

[@MS-ig7ku]

Edward could not have children either.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

@@MS-ig7ku Not true. Why’d you think all his mistresses were married? Because if or when there was ‘issue’ the child would be passed off as the husbands. That has been happening for hundreds of years. A very neat arrangement, don’t you think? 🤣

[@moirafurlong1154]

And Charles & his tart? But the queen ensured that whiney whimp got his way

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

@@moirafurlong1154No she didn’t. She made him marry Diana, which was an horrible mistake. I’m no fan of C&C for how they treated Diana but they were all caught up in the royal way of doing things.

[@user-rq2nk2sl3l]

Uncanny the facial resemblance to Meghan Markle..Also.another American, another divorcee, another troublemaker!

[@m.fazlurrahman5854]

She inspired a lot of front office employees to take up the role while a contractual florist decorates the desk with fresh flowers. What….

[@cynthiaslater7445]

I've heard the pregnancy rumor, but no one has been able to substantiate it.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Yeah, the British government made up a lot of horrible stories about her. PM Stanley Baldwin was an hypocritical shit.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Probably just a nasty rumour.

[@sarahprice1375]

No we will not hold the criticism. Praise where due and criticism where due. Sge and he have told too many lies.

[@christinedelman887]

No comparison indeed, Wallis still had more class than Megan

[@gracie3174]

Love of money….and jewels…. Root of all evil. Good and informative video! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@jilltagmorris]

I hate ai narration

[@helenhouliston5797]

It''s Edward the 8th Not the 7th!!! I have to wonder whether this is even an accurate description or even been fact checked!!! KZbin is the wild west!!

[@pomb4946]

It certainly isn’t accurate. You’re correct to be skeptical of this presentation.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Yeah, they’ve missed a lot too.

[@MaiRaven3]

People can be such assholes.

[@Lori-lp6uc]

Sound familiar Charles?😂

[@smorgasbroad1132]

History repeats itself in the form of Ginger and Nutmeg.

[@zoorpasha4993]

he is not a king? nor a near in his position now to be after 4, P William the Heir, p George, P Charlotte then Louis and it's well known he always wanted to be a private Member just like his cousins Zara and Peter whom enjoy everything Royal privilege and no one objects he is not traitor? silly to say so served in the Army? just wanted his own life and his own way that is all.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

At least Wallis had backbone, M ran at the first sign of trouble. Ugh

[@Nicksonian]

Having a backbone didn’t mean she wasn’t a despicable person. She was…just like Edward.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

@@NicksonianAgreed, but she understood why she wasn’t wanted. It was because she’d be twice divorced with two living ex husbands. M blamed the fact that she was ‘black’ which wasn’t the truth. She just couldn’t hack the lifestyle. Race baiting is such a cowardly thing to do.

[@user-hu3ze4yw4q]

Your racism has gotten the better of you dear, because it’s not even close. Neither are in line for the throne.

[@Prieze868]

O i don't think so

[@emom358]

It's hard to show attractiveness in a photo. I'm sure that being in the same room, the same party, it would be different.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Apart from the fact that although men said she was funny and charming, they compared her face to an ‘old boot’. The actor Richard Burton said she was the most vulgar woman he’d ever met.

[@lindacuttic6383]

She definitely was a wild one!

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

Yes, with a touch of faux class.

[@keithjenkins4752]

Final comments on the documentary might sound ‘deep’. They’re not. What is meant to be happens. I’ll explain it one day. Fate ‘happens’...

[@RaceLab37]

Same as Megan.

[@hellooutthere8956]

The dominion did not flat out reject him. Stanley Baldwin let it be known to the dominion a vote of rejection of the marriage was the wish of the dominion one by one.

[@user-eh3zv1ex5o]

Ah yes, the Stanleys'.... the Kingmakers of Mann.

[@anonymousadult]

That was fascinating😮

[@bcsurvivor4713]

It's pronounced sow as in ow, not sew.

[@audreymcleod6262]

Shy the he’ll do they keep saying. The English. Royal family they are the ROYAL. FAMILY OF GREAT. BRITAIN AND THE COMMONWEALTH. Please get it right

[@IcarusLhooq-bc7uq]

He was unfit anyway and Englad had the king they needed at pivotal moment. Also that his chihood fever left him infertale as well. Itw as always Elizabthes either way but at least she didn't rule under hitler

[@H.R.H-Amina_Bin_Shafiq-SHAKTI]

She wasn't his mistress she was his married girlfriend because he was SINGLE!

[@carmaela2689]

So I guess that makes HIM the mistress lol

[@alpha-omega2362]

@@carmaela2689 misteress... or something like that lol

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

She was his mistress cos he wasn’t married to her.