The Heartbreak Behind The Marriage of King Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson | Secret Letters | Timeline
Rewriting the history of one England’s most famous love affairs
Wallis Simpson found herself at the centre of a national scandal when she was seen to ensnare Edward VIII and lure him from the throne of England. But in this explosive film, biographer Anne Sebba sifts through a newly discovered cache of documents - shown in this film for the first time - that contains 15 secret letters written by Wallis Simpson herself around the time ofthe abdication. These extraordinary personal missives have the power to rewrite both history and our perception of Wallis. They reveal she was deeply in love with another man, and chart her fear, desperation and loneliness as she found herself becoming trapped into marrying the man who should have been king.
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Wallis ask a girlfriend to keep her husband Ernest in good company. She was a master manipulator wow 😮
His abdication actually turned out to be for the best in the end. We ended up having a wonderful Queen and all.
and look at the letters and phone calls between Charles and Camilla. they are just as disgusting. him Willing to be a tampon .. Poor Diane to have to show you face after your husband said that to an older woman.
@@thomasbaye4805 as a woman… if a man said he wished to be my tampon, that would be a deal breaker!! (I’m an gynecology nurse, lol)
@@anonymousadult He used the word Tampax😏
@@elenikominos7404 I’m that case, bring it on, lol 😂
@@anonymousadult 🤣😅
The only thing worse than the one that got away is the one that won't go away.
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What made Wallis so important to Edward, there were younger and more beautiful women out there so how did Wallis get suck by Edward's side.
LOL LOL 😆
@leeannproctor2966 She told him what to do, he liked that.
She was a dominatrix, or at least a top. He was a submissive, or at least a bottom.
The thing that moved me most by this account was Wallis' admission that she really didn't understand herself, and that this had been the cause of all the misery of the situation. How sad to think that from that point onward she stepped into a life she didn't want but had brought upon herself. What a horrible life lesson to have to learn.
Well, she did want power, fame and money, but she didn't see the price tag attached to it. People lose a lot more then they bargain for when they chase after what they believe they want. This is why we have to ask yourselves the "and then what?" question when we go after something. Both she and Edward never asked those questions, so they ended up where they were.
@@girl1213 I suppose so. I can’t help but feel sorry for them both. Edward loved Wallis, but Wallis loved Ernest. Sad.
Compared to Megan, Wallis was a lady
@@NoraKlopfer Omg, give it a rest already. 🙄
Wallis played with fire and got ever after burned.
A lot has been said lately about Elizabeth's sense of duty. This story really lays the foundation for that. She was 10 years old or so when she saw her father dutifully step in where his brother stepped out. She went on to be exactly the opposite sort of monarch than her uncle was.
Elizabeth II was totally dedicated to serving the people of the U.K., even when she was Princess Elizabeth. May this wonderful lady rest in peace.
It should be noted that, since Edward VIII never had any children, Queen Elizabeth II would have been Queen anyhow. Rather than a 70-year queen, shoe would have been a 50-year queen. Of course, this presumes that Edward VIII would not have had any children, and that all the deaths and births would have happened as they did. Had George VI lived outlived Edward (and nothing else being different), he would have been king, and Elizabeth would then have been his heir.
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She Sure Was!!! She Was Great!!! ❤❤❤
And king who is not only divorced and married to a divorced woman but his mistress and left a woman shattered in his wake. So where is all that duty???
So often when people want something desperately, and pursue it obsessively, for many years or sometimes even for their whole lives, when they finally get it..... they discover they don't actually want it after all.
splinterbyrd Very true.
Greedy, selfishness,
So true.
or to put it another way, sometimes people climb to the top of the tree and find there's nothing there
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she honestly did the nation a favor.
you are correct, King Edward was as self centered as her. So Glad King George became king! King Edward and Wallis were both narcissists and the only reason she was upset is that he was better at being a narcissist than her...
@@siomhe8539 lol
Yep
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Spot on comment,a traitor who should have been on trial for treason
What on earth did Wallis have that these men fell head over heels in love with her???
Charm and intelligence
She love bombed her prey . it’s very addictive
Something was wrong with HIM! Just like something is wrong with Harry!
Her ramrod posture. .her art of flirting,her fashion sense,and sharp mind.. she just wanted a good life ( not sinful,is it?)
@@annettechaw3203 She is reputed to have picked up some "means of pleasing men" when in Shanghai....
He was obsessed with her like Lennon was with Ono.
The secret of life isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting it after you get it.
That's wise!👍🏻
I think it’s called - be careful what you wish for.
What a profound pearl of wisdom
Prince Harry and his wife should pay attention to how this history played out.
Wow 🙏
To lose what you thought you didn’t want, and to spend the rest of your life wanting it back. How utterly sad.
How utterly deserving.
@@katemaloney4296 cannot agree more
She deserved it, you should never play and sleep around
She never wanted to lose Ernest; she and Ernest were perfectly satisfied to benefit from Edward's largesse until Edward went full-on stalker. Neither she nor Ernest predicted that.
@@edennis8578 - True. However, the old saying - "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
sounds to me that the "misery" she had to endure was completely of her own making.
And that’s ……called KARMA folks
Like Prince Harry
"this is a love story" it was more like a really, really sad, melancholy tragedy.
This makes a lot of sense to me. I never saw this as a great love story. She had dollar signs in her eyes for him and he was a little boy afraid to become king and became obsessed with her. I always got the impression that he loved her more than she loved him.
The same story with Harry and that woman!!!
@@Jossianne19130 ..I almost agree. The chances of Harry becoming King in the line of succession is low. But even if that were the case-why do people always vilify the women and not the men?
@@chasityeverett3668 Thank you.
Don’t compare Meghan Markle with Wallis Warfield Simpson. Wallis would NEVER EVER have disrespected the Royal Family in any way. -- and yes -- according to letters that she had written, she did have second thoughts about marrying Edward -- but it was too late.
You certainly called that right! I was fooled all these years! I am still stupidly gullible.
We owe Mrs. Simpson a debt of gratitude.
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Thankfully his brother became King and gave us the most wonderful Queen! I believe it was destiny!
Absolutely agree. What a silver lining to the mess.
That Destiny is called the Line of Succession. Elizabeth was 3rd in line the day she was born.
The more I learn about history, the more I understand why Jane Austin’s protagonists are called heroines. They kept their morals, their self-worth, no matter how desperate and bleak their futures seemed. They trusted that God would care for them instead of making excuses and settling for men who were immoral or foolish. It’s so easy to justify poor decisions, and the consequences can be devastating.
Speaking of Jane Austen, she happens to be my favorite writer. She only completed 6 novels but I have read" Pride and Prejudice " at least 3 times,maybe 4. and am now re-reading "Persuasion" for the third time.
She was a single woman in a time where women rarely could be. I'm sure she noticed a lot things about marriage many didn't bother to notice. She never hated her fellow women who wanted/had to get married, but she did want them to understand how they got into their situations with their marriages. "Pride & Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility" are especially good at this. If she had ever met Wallis Simpson she probably call her a "Lydia Bennet" type
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My grandma used to talk about the Abdication of King Edward VIII a lot. It’s all happened when she was just 15. And she once said it was the biggest shocking event that happened in her lifetime. She said it changed everything. She was 95 in 2016 missed you Grandma
That's funny my great gran talked about it a lot too. It must have been huge news. This was in America I'm talking about. She'd say, "Oh how wonderful they gave up everything for love!" That was the American take on it, giving up the throne was a wonderful story. What I can't understand is how ugly and idle she was.
@@xanaduxanadu3605 yes thats the american take. we always were anti-King, so we loved any news about the monarchy that was bad. The British have always been depressed because they lost their vast Empire and since then have been relegated to a normal country of 60 million citizens. They are no longer a superpower, and have to depend on America for their economy. When they hear stories about the King abdicating the throne, even though at this point in time the monarchy were symbolic with no real power, it gives them someone else to blame for losing their empire other than themselves. The Brits can't accept the fact that the world simply changed, and a small Island like England could no longer use divide and conquer tactics to control nations 10x its size. So, it feels good for them to blame others for corrupting their monarchy and Empire. The idea of referring to a human being who's no different than you or I as "The King" really bothers me. I'm glad that in the modern world, people will never take monarchies seriously. The idea of a "King" who's been assigned to rule by God is a ridiculous concept.
@@sabot4ge I'm not anti-King -- I just recognize that the few monarchs left are for the most part out of touch with their subjects, and their subject's plights. It took a WW1 to bring down the public's perception of the devine right of King(s). Human nature is the bridge from prince to pauper.
@@sabot4ge I'll have to disagree. I'm an Anglophile through and through.
Thank you for sharing. We often dismiss how this event affected people at the time. Wishing you joy and peace in her memory.
Did anyone else find it odd that the Church of England "didn't approve of divorce" when it was established in the first place to facilitate Henry VIII's divorce?
Oh the irony and hypocrisy of the Church of England. Only God knows what altars the British royal family was built on. I fear history may not enough to do it justice 🤦🤦🤦
It changed for Charles and Camilla
@@teslaandhumanity7383 , yea and for Harry and Meghan. William married commoner .. a lot of improvement in royal constitution 👍
The Church of England played a game of semantics by calling Henry VIII divorce an "annulment". Meaning in the eyes of the Church, the marriage wasn't legal or right.
@@abdul-rafeeqabubakar5713 I know. But it was only an annulment after the Church of England was formed and Henry became its leader. After all, that was the entire point of creating it. That still kind of proves my point. "A rose by any other name" and all that. 🙂
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - The Great Gatsby. Describes Wallis and Ernest to a T. Also, the King.
I always thought of Tom and Daisy too, comparing Wallis & Edward.
Yes good stuff. Thanks
There were a lot of upper-class Daisy and Tom's.
To sad not good Christians sorry being judge mental
Diana was put in a similar position, apparently. She didn’t want to go through with the marriage when she realized that Charles was in love with another woman. The publicity surrounding these marriages made it impossible to draw back without causing a life-destroying scandal.
If you face is on the tee towel or the mug then it is way too late to pull out as you have to get married.
I watched a documentary detailing their lives after the abdication. I can’t help but feel sorry for the both of them. He was dreadfully disappointed in her. She allegedly sent him home alone half the time they went out together. I heard her name was the last words he spoke, she wasn’t even in the room with him. As for her, she developed Alzheimer’s & since she had no close family, she was mistreated. Her lawyer assumes power of attorney & that was it. With the exception of a couple phone calls to acquaintances, she spent her last YEARS in a bed, while the lawyer sold her priceless possessions. There were no winners here, unfortunately. It’s not a love story, rather, a tragedy
So sad really.
You make it sound sinister that her power of attorney sold her possessions. She had Alzheimer’s and needed full time care. It’s completely logical and sensible that her possessions would be sold to raise funds for her care.
@Flibbertigibbet6 Edward and Wallis ... something similar. It must appear in your recommendations. Very interesting.
@Poklando had Harry's mother not been so good looking she would be judged much worse than Wallis, trying as she did to destroy the house of Windsor.
Indeed very very sad. I watch an interview they gave later in their lives. They both looked dreadfully despondent. And he was so fidgety. Really sad.
Oh what a tangled tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive.
Also , nothing good ever comes from shagging someone else's husband/wife. Everyone ends up unhappy.
Wow. How original.
Echos of another american trying to take on the crown! And who will also fail.
But if our wits we exercise, we’ll soon be telling fool-proof lies.......
@@luciaperdue5687 Not even close. Attitudes about divorce have changed. And Harry didn't give up a throne.
Honestly, given his well documented abhorrent, selfish, entitled and cruel behavior his entire life, I have always considered his abdication to be a temper tantrum over not getting his way. And that he regretted his tantrum for the rest of his life and felt, he should be given the crown back - based on his continued abhorrent, selfish, entitled and cruel behavior, even towards his brother, George VI, who financed Edward out of his own pocket and got nothing but vile insults and borderline, if not outright, traitorous behavior in return. As u can probably tell, I have very little liking for Edward. And every time I learn something new about him, I like him even less. Tho I kinda think, he and Wallis deserved each other. Both were selfish, manupulative ppl only in for themselves and willing to use every1 else as pawns. In a way, its poetic justice, that they both got caught in their schemes.
@dfuher968 Try re-reading your above comment and use Harry's name instead of Edward, also substitute megxit for abdication, bother William for brother George VI, and Megan for Wallis. Your comment could be describing the current situation in GB.
Seems Harry carry’s his uncle genes 🙄💔🙄
Harry carries his relative's genes in his front pocket, if you know what I mean 😉
I find Harry to be very much like him.
@@marleneperry5188That's really exaggerated. Britain was facing an existential crisis in the late 30s. The abdication, luckily, ended up being the best for Britain, but it could have been disastrous on the brink of war. The fact that you compare Megexit to this moment shows that you have no idea what a real crisis is. What a terribly petty era we live in.
Very dangerous game that Wallis and her husband played. I am sure she could have left Edward if she had really wanted to, because she didn't love him even at that point, and I don't think Edward would have committed suicide either. That is not a good enough reason to stay with someone for the rest of your lives. I wonder if Edward had mother issues with Wallis = substitute mother and abandonment issues? But Very, very sad situation for all of them.
She wanted a certain lifestyle too much to risk running, Earnest had moved on. The letters sound more like both of them hedging, playing safe rather than love. Emotional blackmail is a reason to run, not stay. But once he abdicated she'd have become seen as a heartless villainess breaking the public's romantic story.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes...they all got what they deserved.
Sounds like Harry with his mother. It's almost like Oedipus complex.
I always thought that Wallis & her husband were social climbers & it backfired! I really don’t think she was that into Edward 8, I think it was fun having a King pining for her! I think her social climbing back fired & she got stuck, sort of bad karma… be careful what you ask for , you might get it lol
@@erinwaldner246 yes that’s right! Neither of his parents were warm & fuzzy! Albert was basically abused by a nanny, but the kids were so neglected that it took a long time for anyone else to notice!
Why paint her as a victim, she cheats constantly. She wanted power, money and fame. Once edwrs abdicated she was trapped.
Most of those guys are always chased by women like that.
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Exactly!
Why is always a woman fault is this man can not think for them selves WOW 😂😳😂
@@oceansunflower5894 kind of difficult to get.🤭
After all this I've come to the realization our son needs to start addressing me as "My dearest one and only mother".
I will make the same suggestion to my daughters.
Love it xx
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I think David’s penchant to be ruled and treated like a child may have something to do with the iron lady that was Queen Mary?
Probably more like George V who said something like he was afraid of his father, and his children would be afraid of him.
Oh yes Oedipus complex 👍
Awe no. It’s moms fault? Gimme a break.
Loose morals have consequences, no matter the romanticism of the circumstances!
She wasn’t in love with Ernest she just missed her life with him, a life of freedom, with an attractive nice man. Such naïveté lol
The “Simpsons” were spies and Wallis recognized that she was sacrificed.
I agree that she was only professed love for Ernest because she was so bored with Edward VIII. If any man was the love of her life, it might have been Herman Rogers , a married man she knew from the her days in China.
Love is blind. At times, mystery n excitement is there, but once taken, d story changes. U cant be sure of anything. No need to insult n believe in yourself.. what ur reading here, could be true or false, depends on many factors n circumstances. In which direction r u in. Love, love is d answer.
yes, she only missed him when she realized she can't have him and she would be stuck in a life with Edward.
No, I think that she really did love Ernest.
I never believed for five seconds that the abdication anything to do with love. I've always felt the Firm granted Edward a fairy tale ending because they knew that he would be an absolute disaster as King. This doc only serves to underscore that theory. They were both trapped, but as someone said earlier, Wallis was much more intelligent than Edward.
Not to mention they were both friends of Adolf
They would have known he was a raving fascist, so didn't want him when fighting the Nazis.
@@sharone.langley2923 all of them were at that time. The family are of German Descent. Take a look at Prince Phillip's family. Now, I believe we defeated the wrong enemy. The Communists of the Soviet Union should have been squashed. Thats why we are in this current mess. Bolshevik Communists have taken over every aspect in society. Even down to the Church of England.
@@MienemLeben Got any evidence for that? I mean like actual documentation, not "I just know it".
@@sharone.langley2923 her second husband was Jewish, Simpson father real name is Solomon ?
Be careful what you wish for. I always thought of this as a true love story, such a great romance story, almost fairytale-like. Saddened to learn it was only one-sided. Very sad.
Rest assured there are almost fairytale-like love stories, only most of them aren´t as well-known as this one... There even are beautiful love stories among the great and the famous, like Barack and Michelle Obama, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. And even Edward VIII´s younger brother had a beautiful love story and a happy marriage 🙂
@martavdz4972 I agree with you 💯. Great examples of true love, compassion between couples among respect and communication, and they support each other not just during the good times but in real life difficulties. Thank you.
"Im very fond of him and he's kind" 🤔.Sounds like megaliar when she said she asked if harry was kind before meeting him.
For her to say "none of this was of my own making".....er...can you say denial?
Angel 1 She was a true narcissist.
She Knew what she was doing.
I know, right? She cheats on her husband for 2 years and then turns to HIM for courage? And then wrecks the life of the king? The only great thing is by wrecking her own life, and because Edward was a case of arrested development, England dodged a bullet. So maybe it was meant to be
@@wmnoffaith1... They were all as bad as each other!
@@Annie-zd7mx.. Poppycock!
I'm amazed how self absorbed and vile these people were. Sleeping around and openingly cheating and trading spouses. Why bother to marry if means nothing to you. They all deserved what they got.
@@luv3daysgrace1 Amen. I've never had any use for the Mountbattens. *shudder*
+Ann Stillwell..............What makes you so special? They were as "self absorbed and vile" as you.
@@TalairanPerigord .Do you know the Mountbattens ? Thought not. Then keep your imbecilic mouth shut.
@Ann Stillwell During that era (and ages prior) in the upper classes, more often than not women as well as men married for social status and financial security. Then they had dalliances with other partners for romance and amusement.
The movie match point illustrates it perfectly
Wow I had no idea! Wallis tried to convince him not the abdicate! Astounding!
I do worry that Harry will end up being the same way as Edward, (if he isn't already) but with as much regret as Wallis.
YA ESTÁ ARREPENTIDO DE SUS ACCIONES MEZQUINAS Y CODICIOSAS CON UNA MUJER TAN FEA Y RIDÍCULA
I believe she was only in love with the idea of one day being Queen. When she realised that it was never going to happen, she was desperate to find a way out. Too late
Yes poor Harry with his American wife ! Believes she acts like a Kardashian !!
Debbie Vidal definitely, just a fools gold dream.
Debbie Vidal I agree. She loved the IDEA of him, not the reality
Claire Peace I actually remembered Meghan I hope it isn’t the same thing :(
@@magnoliabranca5149 it is.
None of this people had a moral compass , Ernest ‘ loaning out ‘ his wife to the prince in exchange for a glamorous life , Wallis for thinking she was playing a game where she would make hay then return to her husband , and clearly the not very bright Prince believing that she was with him for his charming personality. Interesting how history is now repeating itself
Charles and Cruella de Homewrecker.
Absolutely! Nutmeg and her ginger sock puppet certainly seem to be repeating history
@@SymphonyBrahms Charles and Camilla are both ugly outside AND inside. He never deserved the beautiful Diana, she was beautiful both outside and inside.
MM and PH?
@@1000paulineanne nah...he is so far from the throne, it doesn't matter. They are humdrum with their two kids.
If Wallis had a great love for Ernest, she would not have cheated on him and become the mistress of another. Wallis was incredibly self-centered and probably a narcissist.
Letters show she panicked. It was a safe fling until she became unsure where it all ends. She was trying to line up a fall back plan with Ernest.
It is fascinating that Wallis and Ernest were both involved in the loose morality of wife swapping and affairs and that Ernest saw the Edward affair as advantageous to him. That’s really off. She then starts to complain when he wants to shack up with his own girlfriend. The woman she brought in to keep him company. Just gross….🤢
You are so right. The whole thing was just one huge mess. You reap what you sow.
This just shows that this disastrous relationship caused by their own choices was just as sad and painful and awful as could be predicted.
Looks like history might be repeating itself.
@@annconforti9294 😅😅
@@annconforti9294 agree that history is repeating itself in H & M. This duo also deserve each other.
I recommend that people also watch Edward VIII - The Traitor King Documentary and Behind The Crown, the story of Sydney Johnson. The Edward VIII documentary will further put who he was as well as her (Wallis) into perspective. IMO Britain dodged a bullet when he abdicated. As far as she is concerned, karma is a "B" (based on her final years) when you see what she did to Sydney Johnson following the death of his wife and the Duke of Windsor. And according to royal biographer Hugo Vickers, at the time of Sydney's wife's death a year after the Duke's, Wallis wanted to dismiss him because he asked for more time off to care for his 4 young children. So she fired him (some say he resigned). In any event, 30 years he worked for the Windsors. She was truly a selfish piece of work. No sympathy for her whatsoever.
Indecisive people, cowards will ruin your life. Never falter in making the decision to cut them off no matter the pain.
Her life was a prison sentence of her own making. Seeking wealth and status over what is truly important in life will leave you empty. Unfortunately, she got what she deserved and learned a difficult lesson.
Claudette Markovic sad she chose that
Claudette Markovic Got what she deserved? She hardly deserved anything she got.
She never really loved him and, it was obvious!
@@barbaravick5634 - Why is that?
@@Fairyviewroad the riches- she was a craven goldigger.
Edward was a sad young man suffering from a massive lack of love in his life no amount of money fame or power can replace parental love..
True :(
He was still a not-very-nice or honourable man all the same.
Yet all this behaviors spread mentally like a plague
He was also a hopeless dope, a loser in every aspect of his pathetic life.
@once a musician it is the cards, who you are and how well you can manage playing the game of life. Everyone is not equal with emotional intelligences.
They left out 2 very important facts: (1) Wallis had several affairs during their marriage and (2) Wallis left the former King ALONE ON HIS DEATH BED. So, she was VERY REMISS in following thru with her wifely duties- throughout their entire marriage. Don’t try to make it look better than it was.👩🏾⚖️
"A face like an old boot!" 😂So true!
Meghan Markle🤔
They say that Edward was too (as so was George) scared to death of becoming King. Perhaps, subconsciously this was his survival tactic.
VERY interesting, very valid point, pal! - Few are clever enough to consider that highly likely tactic!
Lori Boufford I was thinking the same thing. Using Wallis as his escape goat.
I agree she was his escape plan weather subconsciously or not.
TAMBIÉN CREO ESO, PUSO DE PRETEXTO A LA SEÑORA WALLIS
He was a weak and undeserving man who was going to be a king!! Thank you Wallis for taking him since you did English people a big favour!!!👏👏
Claudia White I wonder what type of king Prince Charles going to be as he is also kind of like Edward. Camilla is as manipulative as Wallis.
@@yasemindemiray:There seems to be a pattern with Windsor men. Harry is just the most recent.
@@ginawiggles918 Harry was not going to be king Harry had a right to his own life
...i read he has some developmental problems, but he wasn't dumb, he was very Smart in varios subjects.
Right but she was never happy in the marriage
This is WAAAY too kind to these two. Read ''Traitor King'' and find out what David AND Wallis were really up to! Its SHOCKING! No wonder The Queen mother was SO harsh. :O
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What a sad story. What a mess they got themselves into. One might almost think them. We're at not for them, they would not have had their long-running Queen, may she forever rest in peace and Paradise. ❤
Apparently Wallis wasn't the dutiful wife to the Duke. She also 'loved' Herman Rogers and Jimmy Donahue. What a character. Yes, I think she was a narcissist and a player.
He was certainly a narcissist, too. Thank god no children to worry about.
Reminds me of Megan - why does everyone try to shove her down our throats as the next "Diana"? Not even close!
@Kandy Kandy Oh honey! All you have to do is read. And you're right I don't have to read trash...but it is amuzing to see u get so upset!!! Have a great night!!
@@cindyroberts5053 .......not even attractive.
@Kandy Kandy You seem annoyed that he DOES know. That is why he put the word 'love' in inverted commas. Wallis Simpson was a gold digger and a dominatrix and no one, not even this foolish King so complicit in his own downfall, deserved to be her victim. Such a vicious and unpleasant woman is best avoided. Get over it, Kandy Kandy!
Of course Earnest was right. Imagine if Wallis had managed to escape from Edward. He wouldn’t have abdicated and she would have spent the rest of her life thinking she should have been queen. Good for Earnest for realising and putting his own interest first.
I actually was assigned to write a paper on Wallis in College 1993. I can’t believe how much wasn’t in print or maybe just my 19 year old lack to attentive detail. I had two takeaways, she was very unhappy and he was quite dim and overtly simple minded. Reminds me of Harry. Always juvenile and lacking the bigger picture. I am not being mean spirited, just drawing similarities.
Nothing mean spirited about what you said. I also drew the same comparison that acount of Markle and Wallace.
@@veronicacrabtreehill6608It can be our concurrence! I am sure there are many😉
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Where is your evidence that Harry is dim? Have you met Harry? I have and he is very witty and intelligent. Speak about what you know, please.
@@nj3195 🥴🤑🤓
She seems like a textbook narcissist and the worst thing you can do to a narcissist is ignore them. So her longing for Ernest might have been more of a reaction to his rejection than some deep love. She had no respect for Edward I think because a narcissist wants attention but also detests the lowly people who adore them. Sadly I don’t think Wallis was capable of real love. She was a very damaged person and probably had some serious skeletons in her closet.
Both Edward and Wallis were narcissists. They deserved each other. What other ROYAL couple today, BOTH Narcissists, strategized to be together finding themselves MISERABLE? One guess!
@@winkieblink7625 I know who they are,they looked mesirable when the other two are around.Maybe insecure......
The Deer Garden -watch out ,she might appear in your dreams.....who knows what else she can do to you.
I think you’ve got it right.
A narcissist does not attract another narcissist. They attract caregivers, enablers. He followed Wallis around like a little puppy constantly trying to please her, and wrote her the most cloying love letters a 10 year old child would write, not an adult, and definitely not a man. He could never have assumed the demanding role of a king. I had always suspected that Edward was a homosexual because many feminine men, as he was, seem to be attracted to masculine, dominating women, as she was. And as was mentioned by one of the commentators, she was a gold digger. As a narcissist, she would not have felt « forced » to marry him because he threatened to commit suicide. Narcissists have no empathy and crave to be the centre of attention. She might not have achieved the prize position of becoming queen, but being married to Edward brought her more attention than she would ever have had being married to he ex husband. Her fake love letters to her ex kept him in the loop, as well. It’s a sordid, sad story, but they each got what they brought upon themselves.
So now we know Wallis was 'really' a player ... and Edward was blinded by love ... very sad ...
Lol..she sailed two rivers at the same time and end up in a waterfall..
Well said!
So lit!👌👌👌
LOL!
Hahaha
After this revelation, GB has to thank posthumously to W. Simson for saving GB from the king Edward III…
Edward III, really?
Disappointed on how many people place such importance on physical attributes .. there is much more to a woman than that .. with Camilla it was that she actually listened and talked with Charles .. actually cared about what he said and seems to still do ..
Great love story ❤
Cheating is not a good way to start anything
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Shakespeare himself could have written the tragedy that was Edward and Wallis and Wallis and Ernest. Very interesting documentary.
He did, 400 years ago
and it goes on til today . the only true ones can't have the throne . Harry will make a great king . never Charles nor William
Shakespeare would also had written a tragedy about Charles and Diana.
@@thomasbaye4805 it will be a bit difficutl for Harry since he is living in the US, a d is miles down the line to the throne.
LM ino
Who could, with any seriousness, call this a " love story". Please. Give us all a break.
well said! true love would never do the things done here
Winner
Edward was abcess with wallas, Queen was abcess with prince Philip, princess Margaret was abcess with a marry Man Prince Charles was abcess with camila now is Prince Henry love MM if you don't get the love story of this family you tripping or you refuse to see it is in the family. Prince Edward send a treat message to wallas I and people refuse to see it as what really matters 💯⭐⭐.
@@oceansunflower5894 What does "abcess" mean? - or were you trying to say obsessed?
It can indeed be classed as a love story.
Imagine being the cause of a King abdicating..... how could she possibly walk away from that? To her it was excitement, but he fell head over heels for her. The love affair was one sided. Although maybe he didn't really want to be King and this was his way out! Noone knows but the two people involved.
How freely folks wrote lovely letters in history.. a lost art I regret
Now they buy greeting cards from the dollar store or text their feelings.. Blahhhh 🥱🥱🥱🥱
It seems Wallace treated Edward/David like a mother would treat a son. Maybe that was Edward's attraction to her. Maybe he lacked affection from his real mother.
Dianna/JesusSrvnt J yes his parents were cold and remote. A nanny they had was sadistic to him and siblings. He was emotionally very needy
He did lack affection from his own mother... Wallis I'll say was the closes he ever got to what he needed.
Edward VIII, like George IV, threatened suicide whenever he wanted to manipulate his prospective wife.
Exactly like Charles & Camilla!
You are aware the meaning of darling meaning angel King Edward vulnerable like a child without his mother. Darling & Arling meaning 😇 👼 😇 👼 Angel
I think he did England a favour. I like the Queen and her family as they are. I’m not sure he could have been trusted during the war.
She would have been Queen regardless because he had no children. But yes, it was a very good thing he wasn’t in charge during the war.
Susie we don’t really know if she would have been queen, we can’t know if England would stand the same way after Edward.
@@LinaPlancarte It was the greatest luck to England and the rest of Europe, that Wallis's "little man" abdicated! We would all be speaking German today, had he not!
The recent formal portrait of Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Louis spelled out clearly the succession.
@@susie2251Neither was King George. Churchill was in charge of the war. And he was a great supporter of Edward by the way.
Ah, a story where everyone gets a bit of what they deserve.
Nothing happens by accident. King G6 was meant to be king. The world was able to see how great of a man he was.
Childhood trauma lies behind many ill-fated decisions - mostly people are not driven by malice but are just trying to escape the sadness of their past. He had no parental love, and Wallis was escaping the destitution of her childhood in the only way she knew how. He was basically looking for a mother and she was looking for the approval of a father and societal acceptance. Unfortunately their two worlds collided.
Only to a point. Wallis was reasonably happy with her second husband. They both got greedy and allowed a third party into their marriage in exchange for perks and status. Eventually the adventure exploded in their faces. I am glad her husband married again but I do not pity Wallis. She could have refused David's offer but that was the last substantial offer she was likely to get due to the scandal and notoriety. She did not have the courage for that alternative.
An exellent summary of the situation! Edward was looking for love, Wallis for money, security and an exciting life.
That's a lot of couples.
@@blippypippy8167 yes it is.
Just as Charles has looked for a mother and has found it in Camilla, and Harry in Megan!
Excellent documentary. What a tragic pair Edward and Wallis were. He was a man child and she was forced to spend the rest of her life as his mother. A bizarre love story.
Like Prince Charles with his Camilla!
Wallis was not forced to spend the rest of her life with him. She set this whole scenario up and ended up backfiring on her. She got played while being the player. I really don't think Edward would have slit his throat. These people major in drama and appearances.
Grace White Feather he used to like her to put a diaper on him like he was a baby -effin weirdo
Like MeGain and Harriett
@@victoriaalbastra6325 EXACTLY the same
These people end up having the morals of alley cats.
Wallace Simpson essentially saved Britain by getting Edward out of a position he really shouldn't have occupied. Not on purpose, of course.
In my head, I can see Ernest saying to Wallis: “Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn “
And Wallis “Tomorrow is not another day.“
Ernest didn't want a divorce though. Neither did Wallis really!
But he did….to the very end.
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"He thought she was Helen of Troy. Nobody else did, she had a face of an old boot. We thought. A very, very austere and lanterned jawed." ------- that old man is savage! Lol!
And quite accurate......Wallis did have power of personality and charisma...and clearly a degree of confidence.
Man!!! I had to stop the video to laugh for 10 straight minutes
@@cynthiasmith2459 A school peer/pal (I can't just which female) of Wallis' in Baltimore described Wallis' eye color as being "violent" and definitely a beauty asset, along with her petite size, which offset her unattractive square jaw. Some British commentators are not able to distance themselves from their understandable bias to acknowledge she had great charm and force of personality......I'd liked to have met her.
@@theelizabethan1 same here! …Meanwhile here in Los Angeles, (land of the most beautiful models and actresses) women can’t get a man to cross the 405 freeway.
I thought she looked quite pretty?
Any loneliness and suffering Wallis experienced was simply what she deserved. She shook up the lives of many people.
Yep definitely agree! Seems like Harry has ended up just like king Edward Miserable 😩 😢and sad 😔 Me again is another Wallis Simpson.
also constant whining for more money and demanding renovations for the Bahamas home they were provided while England was under a blitz
She says (l) 10 times in that second letter she read🧐🙄🤮
@@shaz6997 i
History is definitely repeating itself with Harry and his wretched wife.
The theme of this piece is that Edward was the child and Wallis was the grown-up. They were both children.
Even as an American, I can see that King Edward’s abdication was probably the best thing that could have possibly happened for Great Britain,. If Wallis Simpson wasn’t the reason, another woman whom King Edward had been involved with, could have easily been chosen as the reason why King Edward abdicated . This bachelor King was a partying playboy with many married mistresses ,and a score of other women, whom he had been involved with It seems that he had constant parties , soirées, and dinner parties, but didn’t do anything else. . King Edward didn’t show any concern for the well being of the people of Great Britain. King Edward didn’t do any work at all, and he didn’t carryout the duties of a Royal Monarch , as the Governor of the Church of England,, Leader of the Royal Armed Forces , as a Benevolent Constitutional Monarch, communicating regularly to to the British people, . I’m sure that King Edward wouldn’t have done an 180 degree turn - to actually comfort his people in their losses and sacrifices in the face of World War II., and to show up at places of bombings, to visit military troops, and to inspire them, as his brother King George had done . Great Britain didn’t need a frivolous, partying , womanizing Bachelor King .That would have caused the end of the British Monarchy. His brother King George was the appropriate Royal Monarch . He was a responsible, mature, married family man. He was a faithful husband and a devoted father of two daughters. King George took his position and duties as Royal Monarch seriously . He stayed there in London, in the midst of the bombings by air throughout The Battle of Great Britain with His Queen Consort Queen Elizabeth and his people . His daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret were close by in the Fortress Windsor Castle. King George demonstrated modest middle class living and values . Surely King George demonstrated what true loyalty, duty, and caring for one’s people was . He modeled this before his daughter , the future Queen Elizabeth II. I am convinced that if King Edward hadn’t abdicated, he would have been caused the end of the British Monarchy.
The British monarchy is causing its own end quite fine without needing women outside the family to blame for their depravity and indulgences. And since when did royal families care in reality at all for the peons they consider their subjects, in anything but name only? Are you daft? Aristocracies care in practice for nothing outside themselves. If it appears they do care, that’s all it is - an act to satisfy appearances, nothing more. A means to the end of their justification of continuing to leech off of society and real, hardworking people, while play acting that they’re doing some great service and not just trying to justify their excesses. It’s literally institutionalized narcissism and has exactly zero relevance or connection to contemporary life.
@@kkarli874 yes, he also was responsible for king George V being murdered. Kings doctor finished him off. That doctor was Edward good friend.
La penso esattamente come te. .Le cose non capitano mai per caso ..
I agree!
Also Britian would have most like had fought with Germany. Unless Churchill went against the King.
"Even at age 23 when it didn't take much to turn me on, she didn't." I love it!
Savage!
😆😆 '" she looked like and old boot"
I loved that line 😃
I laughed out loud.
I love your documentaries. Your usage of such elevated language and so many incredible facts.
What a superb documentary, with revelations I had never known about until now. Thank you for posting this.
I never perceived their match as a great love story. They richly deserved each other...rather self-indulgent people who lived as spoiled people do. Not fascinating.
Yes, spoiled people, I tend to think that such people have had no chance to exercise their muscles to grow emotional maturity and brave times of trouble.
And, I think, beguiled by German facists. Came off as supporting Nazis.
He was a Prince of Wales, ill suited to being King and the duties that came with it. He did full fill his royal duties, and was even popular as a young Royal, but there was much more going on politically behind the scenes to this story. Plenty of books and research available on this. His younger brother became King, with his wife, Elizabeth, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. Edward VIII, the Duke of Windor's neice has Reigned for 67 years as Monarch, and likely for many more to come. Her first born son, is a also the longest serving Prince of Wales. The is precedent, if a monarch can not fulfill their duties for a Regency to be established by Parliament. This last occurred under George III. Obviously, as this story shows, there is also precedent for a Reigning Monarch to abdicate. The current monarch is not expected to do so. Many European monarchs in recent times have, making way for their younger adult children to serve as monarch.
@@michaeld3303 I think the Queen thinks herself as being ac actual monarch in the historical sense
Shawn Matthews he had a poor and abusive relationship with his parents, especially his father.. I think he was dependant on her not in love with her..
Boy, she was a piece of work. In all these letters she only talks about “her”” dilemmas and always wants that which she cannot have. She doesn’t care for any of the men, only what they were for her comfort.
This worked out perfectly. Edward was not equipped to be the Monarch. It would have fallen into the hands of Hitlers forces. Thankfully, he foolishly abdicated and eventually, through many other circumstances, Queen Elizabeth took the throne and ruled with unfettered commitment to duty.
The moral of the story is dont mess with a twice divorcee or you gonna get eaten up for breakfast. Prince Harry should learn from his great uncle Edward VIII.
"This is a love story", yep, Wallis loved her jewelry.
Love it! But England shd erect a statue to her, since she prevented him staying on a throne he was unsuited for by (lack of) character and temperament.
😆😂😂 Brilliant. 😂
Right ✅ Damn shame
This is horrible . ThiS is not a LoVe ❤️ story . It’s a True story of Narcissism . Watch the company YoU keep 🥴 Please seeK GOD and Keep him FiRst 🥳🥳
Who wouldn't?
She was not a victim. She used men to get what she wanted. It is absurd to imagine her as anything but selfish.
That is being very judgmental. Things were much different for women then. Marriage was all they had to make their way in life.
Just like MeGain today
Joni Lane Well, just like Meghan Markle then.
@ Joni Lane Yes. Agree with you.
Yeah she was an opportunistic yank
😆 🤣 😂 the world thanks them for giving us HRM queen Elizabeth II.
So she really never loved King Edward. Infatuated .
To me, what those letters reveal is that the only love Wallis ever had was the love for her narcissistic self. Always longing for what she currently cannot have and pathologically never satisfied with what she currently had.
Reminds me of someone else. Megan
@@denisehadfield7995 100% !
@@denisehadfield7995 Yupp! spot on! Harry will end up a trembling and uncertain and defeated a man as he ended up
I feel there is another royal relationship much the same
Sounds like meg mark
It's not a fairytale, it's a nightmare! It sounds like a dysfunctional relation to me...
Yup and now harry and Meghan are trying to destroy the UK, our freedom in the Commonwealth and censor our freedoms entirely. Nasty , stupid people they are. It's so obvious it's scary that others aren't seeing this (well, smart people see it, if you know what a sociopath is , look to Meghan and harry)
Exactly
@@doxasophosmoros I find people enjoy being victims. Harry deserves well.
The media
@@doxasophosmoros As you sound like a nasty stupid person..
What a fantastic style of writing Wallis had!! it is so beautiful!
Is the actress reading Wallis' part Elizabeth McGovern? *fast forwards to the credits* NAILED IT!
I don't find anything "poignant" about Wallis's letters; they're nauseating. They demonstrate how calculating and sociopathic Wallis was; supremely and always only interested in her own feelings and concerns.
spinozareader I completely agree. In her letters to the husband that she left for Edward after taking him away from his original wife and child, she told Ernest that she did not want Edward to leave the throne. I’m not so sure I believe a word of that.
spinozareader Yes, be careful what you wish for. You may get it
Can someone please tell me how Wallis' letters to Simpson ended up in Wallis' attic?
The letters are very manipulative
Concerns all sounds like a arrangement by two governments one America intelligence and one British intelligence the third party totally secret and silence hall of Europe ruled by Germany with secret partners.Convenience and conscience maybe you should look in the mirror so often it's all about the reflection and relationship of the dollar and the pound currency valuation of conscience of the establishment keeping good relationship with America King Edward and his wife Baroness
IMO, she was just as self-centered as he was. Their relationship was fueled by the fact that she was witty and fun to be around, plus some sort of sexual domination on her part. It’s disheartening to learn of their shallowness.
SMSB sado masochistic relation
Wallace never loved David. No comparison ,Charles and Camilla have proven theirs was the love match of the century
I can`t help but see parallels today. An ambitious woman and a child man. Where will it end?
Without so much power influence and money these people may not have played such silly games
A classic example of “we love those who don’t love us and want those who don’t want us “
Very true
My grandfather was chauffeur to the Vanderbilt twins in the 1930s when they were living in London. He told me that one of the twins had an affair with Edward VIII before he was king and still Prince of Wales. Apparently, my grandfather would drive the young prince back to the palace late at night in the Vanderbilt's Rolls Royce as it didn't show the royal flag on the bonnet. When the Second World War started the Vanderbilts fled back to the USA. They wanted to adopt my father and take him back with them but he didn't want to go to a life of privilege and wealth - preferring poverty with his real mum!
That was some good tea! 🍵
Idk y I believe this but I do😮
@@mbibbins69 I can assure you it is completely true.
Thema Morgan
A friend was a beach boy in the Penang island and 'adopted' by a European royal couple after being amazed by his abilities and showed him his would be place in one of their properties, they sent a whole plane to take him there but the Malaysian gov was sceptical of this oddity and did a lot of questioning and he failed his drug test and sent to jail. The royal having received an empty plane sent back a lawyer but he couldn't do anything. He's still an amazing guy and was taken in by a rich family but recently he came back as he felt the rich guy thinking he owned him with money. Tons of amazing tales by this guy and corroborated by everyone who knows him.
Edwards abdication was the absolute best thing that could have happened to the UK. Can you imagine what a mess he would have made. I’m sure if he had stayed on the throne- the royal family would not exist today.