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when Britain's future King Edward Prince
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of Wales fell for a twice married
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American divorcee Wallis Simpson their
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secret affair caused a constitutional
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crisis that would cost him his crown on
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this day the decision of King Edward the
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eighth was awaited with anxiety
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throughout the Empire he became the
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first monarch in British history to
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voluntarily give up his throne
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the man who gave up with many other man
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has ever done lovely woman linking him
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forever to one of the world's most
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enduring love stories I viewed it as the
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greatest romance of the 20th century I
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have found it impossible to discharge my
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duties as king but I'm with the help and
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support
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I love
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it's been 80 years since Edward quit his
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throne for Wallis Simpson
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the people are still fascinated by their
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love story and what happened to them
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after he was no longer king at ten
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thousand pounds ten thousand sold many
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of the items under the hammer today have
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been sold at auction twice before
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attracting record-breaking prices 1
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million viable two thousand dollars that
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they're still pulling in the bids for a
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third time shows how fascinated people
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still are with this remarkable story one
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of the most precious and perhaps the
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most beautiful is a 1952 onyx and
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diamond bracelet it's shaped like a
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stalking Panther and it just became the
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star of the night Edward Windsor was the
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eldest of six children fathered by
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George the Duke of York later King
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George the fifth he was born on the 23rd
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of June 1894 when his great-grandmother
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Queen Victoria ruled the British Empire
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he was christened with seven names
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Edward Albert Christian George Andrew
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Patrick David he chose David as his
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Christian name and that's what the
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family and close friends called him for
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the rest of his days life was not easy
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for David his father was determined to
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prepare his son for the job he would one
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day inherit his childhood was along
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military lines stand up straight beyond
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time dressed properly
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giving the young Prince a strong sense
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of duty
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when his father became king one of his
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first acts was to make Edward now 17 the
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Prince of Wales
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a lavish mini coronation in a medieval
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Welsh fortress Carnarvon castle this
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grainy film of the ceremony shows King
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George personally crowning his teenage
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son who from then on would be known as
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Edward Prince of Wales when the first
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world war broke out in July 1914 Edward
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was among the first to sign up keen to
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see active service he joined the
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Grenadier Guards and became a star
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officer but the Prince of Wales was not
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allowed anywhere near the frontline the
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Secretary of State for war Lord
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Kitchener feared not only that he might
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be killed but also that the Germans
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might capture him alive
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Edward pleaded to be allowed to fight
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with the men he was training with he
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argued that he had three other brothers
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able to become heirs to the throne
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despite the ban on him fighting Edward
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visited the trenches whenever he could a
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newsreel cameramen went with him to show
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the British people that their heir to
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the throne was at the very heart of the
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battle they didn't know that the Prince
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stayed behind when the men went over the
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top to take on the German machine guns
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Edward was even given a Military Cross
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one of the highest army awards for valor
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at the time few knew that he had not
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fired a single shot in anger the public
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image of the future King was being
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carefully managed handsome brave and
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heroic when the Great War ended Edward
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became a roving ambassador he could do
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no wrong
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able to experience things that lesser
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mortals could only dream of from the
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Austrian Terrell we have secured the
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latest pictures of the Prince of Wales's
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early attempts at skiing the princess
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aptitude for all sports is well known
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and it will not be long before he has
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found his Snow Lake so to speak if there
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was something that had never been done
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before
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he was the royal to try it here is the
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first flight of the Prince of Wales over
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London
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they've been sat next to the pilot in
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the John Palmer and flew for an hour
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over the cabin at the end of the fight
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the Prince said it was a glorious stunt
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a phrase which caught the fancy of the
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world's journalists Edward had become
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the pinup of his day women adored him
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men envied him the ultimate bachelor but
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his family wanted him to settle down
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find a wife and produce an heir to the
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throne
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but Edward wasn't interested married
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women were more his style and one in
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particular had his eye the American
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socialite Wallis Simpson he first met
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her in 1931 when he was 36 and she 41 it
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wasn't love at first sight he already
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had a married girlfriend Thelma Furness
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but there was something about Wallace
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that intrigued him by 1935 it was clear
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that Edward and mrs. Simpson had become
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an item albeit a discrete one they were
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regulars of London's high society social
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scene and the government of the day was
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concerned
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mrs. Simpson was not only married she
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was an American
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how would that sit with the general
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public when Edward tried to officially
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introduce Wallace to his parents they
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refused
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the concern was so great that the
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government ordered Scotland Yard's
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Special Branch to spy on the couple the
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surveillance was kept under wraps for
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more than 60 years it only came to light
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when the government decided to
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declassify some royal documents in 2003
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sensitive papers concerning the royal
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family they usually kept secret for a
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hundred years but these were released 36
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years early revealing police reports
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from 1935 which alleged that during her
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first year with Edward mrs. Simpson was
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also seeing another man the mystery man
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according to the Special Branch officer
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was a car salesman from Yorkshire
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he was also married his name was guy
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Marcus trundle start working at the
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National Archives are far from sure that
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the 1935 reports are to be believed now
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I'm not saying that mrs. Simpson did not
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have an affair with guy trundle I just
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don't know the doubts have crept in
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because the reports have been spiced up
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by the undercover policeman who spied on
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mrs. Simpson he writes that Wallis
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Simpson and her husband Ernest were Jews
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an incorrect rumor that was doing the
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rounds at the time I won't say I won't
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believe it but I have not been convinced
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that it's true especially in the light
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of the other pieces of information in
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these reports the police interest in
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Edward and mrs. Simpson came to an
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abrupt end in January 1936 with the
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death of George the fifth shortly after
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midnight the world heard the broadcast
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announcement death has come peacefully
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to the king at 11:55
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on Monday the 20th of January in 1936
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Britain had a new king headed to my
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mother and to us his job the past trials
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assembled reverently
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of Euro the homage to the late please
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memory is a thing that we will never
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forget the way was now clear for him to
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pursue his affair with mrs. Simpson
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whatever the cost to the country or his
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family
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you
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guns boomed out in the distance as a new
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chapter of English history was unfolded
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by the Garter King Arms the Garter
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command were unfolding a new king and
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ruler of the then British Empire high
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and mighty Prince Edward Albert
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Christian George Andrew Patrick David is
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now Edward the eighth the people had
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high hopes for Edward even braving
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driving rain to see him in action that
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weather sparked the Kings drive for the
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State Opening of Parliament as a pageant
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and a spectacle and it did not deter the
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crowds who lined the route to cheer his
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majesty as he went to his first meeting
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with parliament since his accession he
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spoke optimistically of the future of
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Industry and Trade and of shipping and
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of the strengthening of Britain's
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defense forces while they are essential
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for the defence of the Empire no
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opportunity will be lost for the
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promotion of peace throughout the world
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it was not peace but work which was
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challenging the UK at the time and the
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former Prince of Wales found disastrous
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levels of unemployment amongst the Welsh
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the grimmest phase of all this talk came
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at dulles the king inspected what had
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once been a busy and prosperous
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steelworks 9,000 men lost their jobs
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when this works closed down the king
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left South Wales with the determination
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that something must be done his
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determination put him at odds with the
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government of the day he was supposed to
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stay out of political issues but it
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wasn't only his politics that worried
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the government his relationship with
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Wallis Simpson was becoming ever more
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intense
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he was showering her with jewelry and
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taking her on luxury holidays Edward had
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been on the throne for less than six
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months when his reign almost came to an
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end a right-wing Irish extremist tried
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to shoot him in Hyde Park during the
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trooping of the color it what bigger
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arch a man comes out pistol in hand as
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the King passes a mounted policeman
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plunges from his horse and assaults
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couple and the pistol falls near the
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Kings horse that before then you know
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what's happened George Andrew McMahon is
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shuttered up in custody and later taken
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to post race is the bush will you tell
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us exactly what happened I noticed a
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disturbance in the crowd and I saw three
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policemen arresting a man if you don't
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like an actual attempt on the King's
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life well it all happened so quickly I
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was all over in a few seconds I could
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not possibly form an opinion but the
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most remarkable thing of all was away
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which the King continued one he's wired
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in head of his troops as if nothing had
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happened
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as he continued to carry out his duties
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Edward the eighth was also still
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courting mrs. Simpson out of the public
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eye when news of it broke in the press
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the government gave him an ultimatum
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give up Wallace or renounce the throne
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quite apart from the fact that she isn't
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of noble blood
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mr. Simpson has twice been in the
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divorce courts to my mind that
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completely rules her out as Queen of
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England I don't think anybody for a
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moment with a single exception of the
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king himself thought that there was ever
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a chance of her being queen ever and I'm
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sure she didn't she's much too sensible
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is Hughes any stupid manner since she
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was a very intelligent woman as the
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political debate raged the people joined
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in tune I think a ganger marry the woman
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he loves erect the kingship please so we
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marries but he knows he got everybody
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going despite the public support
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Edwards throne was now on the line the
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nation is behind him and we must not
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lose on this day the decision of King
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Edward the eighth was awaited with
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anxiety throughout the empire and the
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decision was not what the people wanted
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to hear a few hours ago i discharged my
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last duty as king and Emperor Edwards
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reasons for abdicating was not political
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I have found it impossible to carry any
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burden of responsibility and to
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discharge my Indians of King and ieave
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I help and support and the woman I love
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Edwin became the Duke of Windsor and his
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younger brother Bertie King George the
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since the news sent shockwaves around
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the world
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he had been king for just 325 days the
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third shortest reign in history Wallis
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Simpson divorced her husband Ernest and
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six months after giving up the throne
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Edward quietly and privately married the
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woman he loved
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in the South of France she became the
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duchess of windsor but Edwards brother
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the new king band members of the royal
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household from attending the wedding
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Edward was now in exile banished by his
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own family within months the pair were
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in Germany being feted by Adolf Hitler
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and his henchmen a huge crowd greeted
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the Duke and Duchess of Windsor the
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purpose of the visit was to study social
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institutions and welfare Edward Wallace
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studied Joseph Goebbels Hitler's
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propaganda boss and had tea with Herman
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Goering commander of the Luftwaffe and
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mastermind of the Holocaust but the most
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important meeting of the lot was with
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man who personally invited the Duke and
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Duchess to Germany it is March 2016 a
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rare photo album containing images of
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Edward and mrs. Simpson from that 1937
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visit is being sold to a private buyer
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someone who doesn't want to be
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identified or have the picture seen
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there are several pictures showing the
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Duke of Windsor with Nazi officers but
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pictures like this led to complaints
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that the Duke was fraternizing too
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openly with the Nazis the album was sold
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for five thousand six hundred pounds but
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the photographs are not the only record
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of Edward and mrs. Simpsons trip to see
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Hitler German newsreel cameramen were
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there and filmed extensively for
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propaganda purposes the official visit
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gave weight to the allegations that
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Edward was a Nazi sympathizer and a
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traitor King in the make
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the album doesn't contain one of the
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most infamous images from the visit one
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which shows the Duke giving what looks
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like a Nazi salute it was quietly sold
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for eighteen hundred pounds at another
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auction in Wales in July 2015
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modern historians have uncovered
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evidence that Hitler intended putting
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Edward on the throne again if Germany
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succeeded in conquering Britain in 1940
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there's a plot in Germany to put him
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back onto the British throne in the end
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of his life in nineteen seventy saying
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Hitler wasn't a bad chap in the Second
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World War was the responsibility of the
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Jews and the Reds Edward was no stranger
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to German culture his family had strong
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German connections and he spoke the
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language fluently one of his best
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friends was Diana Mosley wife of the
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fascist leader Sir Edward Moseley in the
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making in the heart of him
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even though it disapproved of his German
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connections the then British government
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found jobs headed as far away from the
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UK as possible on the way to take up his
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appointment as governor of the Bahamas
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the Duke of Windsor called a Bermuda a
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guard of honour was formed by Navy Army
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and Home Guard
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the allegations of Nazi collaboration
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were always been the Royal outcasts
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flirtation with Nazism is well known he
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and his wife visited Germany in 1937 and
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met Adolf Hitler but was he a traitor
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prepared to see a Nazi victory in
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Britain in order to regain the throne
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with his wife Wallis Simpson as Queen I
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thought that he will come over as a fool
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as a man whose idiotic vanity and
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egotism drove him down a path that was
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extremely injudicious however I do not
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think that there's going to be anything
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to suggest that he actually actively
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helped Britain's enemies during the war
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after the war Edward and Wallis
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effectively retired to Paris where the
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French gave them a palatial mansion
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Edwards family did not really want to
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see them but they did return to the UK
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occasionally arriving at Hendon Airport
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the Duke of Windsor returns to England
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for the first time since 1940 to visit
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his mother in the grounds of Marbury
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house the joke was welcomed by Queen
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Mary whom he had not seen for nine years
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the lunar Queen Elizabeth is ready to
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sail as the Duke of Windsor prepares to
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return to New York he hopes to come back
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to Britain shortly
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like all the people yes wherever else
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they went the Duke and Duchess would
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treated like royalty the Duke and
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Duchess of Windsor in happy mood arrived
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in the United States for the first time
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in 18 months they particularly enjoyed
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American presidents and Hollywood stars
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as the 60s became the 70s Edwards health
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began to fail prompting the royal family
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to begin the process of ending his exile
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his doctors wouldn't let him take tea
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with his visitors so the Duchess took
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them upstairs afterwards to see him the
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visit was arranged at the Queen's
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request she spent 37 minutes there
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rather longer than planned this was the
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first time that she received the Queen
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in her own home ten days later Edward
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died less than a month short of his 78th
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birthday his body was flown back to
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Britain for burial at Windsor Castle
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there was no state funeral no pomp and
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circumstance this was a simple service a
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private act of remembrance by a small
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congregation of mourners on top of the
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coffin there was no crown but a wreath
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from the duchess of windsor outside the
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public had gathered once again still
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wanting to pay their respects even after
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two days of the lying in state the
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service lasted half an hour then with
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the Queen the duchess of windsor left
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the chapel the service also finally laid
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to rest 36 years of feuding Edward was
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back in the fold as was the love of his
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life Wallace
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this afternoon the Duchess attended the
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last and completely private act of
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remembrance for her husband
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his burial at the royal mausoleum at
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Frogmore within the grounds of Windsor
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Castle and after that service the
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Duchess left immediately for her home in
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Paris she leaves with the memory that
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this past week thousands have shown
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their affection to the last for her
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husband
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Wallace spent her final years in
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isolation in Paris suffering from
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increasing dimension the mansion which
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the city gave to her and her husband so
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many years ago stood for lawn today the
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body of the Duchess still lying inside
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the chimneys are corroded the roof has
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not withstood the weather and the
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boundary fence lies unrepaired on Monday
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evening the Duchess's condition suddenly
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deteriorated her staff called her doctor
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he in turns summoned a Paris specialist
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who diagnose pneumonia this morning the
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Duchess woke up feeling considerably
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better but then the fever quickly
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worsened and within two hours she was
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dead and so the drama which rocked
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Britain to its core 50 years ago ended
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here in the Bois de Boulogne this
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morning she died 14 years after Edward
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and was buried next to him at Windsor
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Castle
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the Windsors have left a lasting legacy
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their love story has become the stuff of
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TV and movie legend many famous names
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have played the couple Edward Fox played
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him in the TV series Edward and mrs.
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Simpson do you think history treated him
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Furman life treats us all more or less a
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sweet deserved and Madonna wrote a
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Hollywood film about her
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I viewed it as the greatest romance in
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the 20th century called w e as in
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wallace and edwin well i think it's a
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complex story and I don't think there's
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any real there's no black and white
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there's no real clear-cut villains good
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guys or bad guys it was important for me
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to portray everyone in the film as a
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human being even the actors chosen to
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play the couple bought into their story
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he didn't try and hide his life behind
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closed doors he just enjoyed everything
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and it became it was much more public
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and much more troublesome I think to the
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rest of all family than anybody really
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wanted it to be after all these years
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what Edward really wanted is hard to
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tell but one thing is clear he really
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was the king who gave up his throne for
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the woman he loved until death did pop
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