King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson (Duke and Duchess of Windsor)

[mcdnab]

Well the idea of some conspiracy to remove Edward VIII is hardly new, however the official paperwork and the numerous accounts from letters and diaries of the period suggest several things none of them leading to a "plot".
It is also worth bearing mind that Britain is a "Parliamentary" monarchy - a monarch that is unacceptable to Parliament can't stay on the throne without a clash.
Edward backed himself into a corner - once he'd informed Baldwin of his determination to marry Wallis either on or off the throne he'd given the Prime Minister and himself no room for any alternative option.

[Beautiful B.C]

Vicker Hugo has a new book scheduled for release September 2010 titled, "Behind Closed Doors : The life and death of the Duchess of Windsor."

[Beautiful B.C]

I'm sorry for the mistake...... Hugo Vickers!

[Forum Admin]

I have tossed out the lunatic pressing claims to be the illegitimate bastard child of the Duke of Windsor and a paid prostitute.  We brook no tolerance for unsubstantiated claims, more so today when a cheap DNA test can conclusively prove or disprove the claim.

I admit I was at first willing to allow her to post, without any reference to her claims of paternity until I saw her own website.  That made my decision easy. This is a place of genuine historical discussion, backed up with facts, not wild assertions.

Thanks to the person who gave me the heads up about this.   This lunatic is banned, like all the rest.

carry on

FA

[LillyO]

Thank You FA!  I saw that website also and applaud your actions.

[Robert_Hall]

3 cheers indeed. These people are so tiresome. A waste of time.

[RoyalWatcher]

Oh thank goodness. It was quite disturbing.

[Robert_Hall]

Back to the Windsors..I meant Harrod's when talking abouth their xmas crackers, of course. Hatchard's is a bookstore on Piccadilly. And TB, Wallis was not royal, so why should she wear the same thing they wore, especially those hats.

[CountessKate]

One of the things Wallis wore very little of after 1940 based on pictures was hats.  This is a departue from most Royal women of the time.

Actually, it was a departure for a woman to wear no hat outside the home generally at that time - I have a photo of my mother dressed in a very chic outfit with a smart beret and white gloves all ready to go on a plane journey in the 1950s.  And she was by no means from an upper class or moneyed family - it was just the correct way to dress.  I don't think it was really until the 1960s that hats really went out as part of dressing 'properly'.  Wallis was well ahead of the trend.

[Lindelle]

Well here they are :-

-<"http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/tom_romanov/hall.jpg"  - The entrance hall.

-<"http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/tom_romanov/bluedining.jpg"  - The Blue dining room (sorry for the crease).

-<"http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/tom_romanov/bluesalon.jpg" - The Blue Salon.

-<"http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/tom_romanov/libarary.jpg" - The Library.

-<"http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/tom_romanov/libcouple.jpg" - Edward and Wallis (and a pug) in the Library.

-<"http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/tom_romanov/dukebedroom.jpg" - Edward's bedroom.

-<"http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/tom_romanov/duketable.jpg" - Edward's bedside table (notice all the picture of Wallis)

-<"http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/tom_romanov/dukebathroom.jpg"  - Edward's bathroom ( the bath is covered by a board because he always took showers)

-<"http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/tom_romanov/duchessbedroom.jpg" - Wallis' Bedroom (sorry for the crease)

-<"http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/tom_romanov/duchessbathroom.jpg" - Wallis' Bathroom

-<"http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/tom_romanov/img139.jpg" - A table in Wallis' bedroom

Lovely, Thankyou so  much Tom

[Rani]

Edward with siblings (Mary and ?)

[Grace]

...little Bertie (later King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II's father).

[RoyalWatcher]

David's facial features are so unique as compared to the other York children. He obviously takes after the Teck side of the family, but who specifically? Grandduchessella, do you have any ideas?

[Eric_Lowe]

Definitely not Francis Teck . Maybe his mother ?

[grandduchessella]

David's facial features are so unique as compared to the other York children. He obviously takes after the Teck side of the family, but who specifically? Grandduchessella, do you have any ideas?

I really don't. It's hard to say what the Duke of Teck's mother looked like since there are so few portraits of her and I don't think that he resembled the Duke's Wurttemburg father. The few pictures I've seen of the Duke's sisters, they seem rather heavy featured. It seems his fairer coloring came from Queen Mary who seemed to get it from her mother rather than her darker father. So perhaps David resembled the Cambridge side of the family?