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Thanks. Until I heard this I had no idea his rhotacism was that obvious (troops=twoops etc). Upper-class people of his time stereotypically spoke like that but his is quite severe. Assuming this was broadcast and recorded live it's an amazing effort, but with a few hesitations that must have...

Yes, and is it any wonder? People wanted to find meaning in the staggering death toll. Another war just over twenty years later didn't seem acceptable. A few Edward & Wallis books were mentioned up-thread, here. I just read some of The people's king on Google Books to feel out if it's worth...

Indeed. Edward was quite charismatic. Because Wallis had already been married twice I suppose it was easy to characterise her as a bit of a "gold digger". It makes you wonder whether, if he hadn't met her, Edward would have "ruin[ed] himself in a year" as his father predicted. I vote for yes...

:previous: It's true that Edward wasn't the only person to support Hitler at this time. But weren't some in the government supportive of appeasement, but not necessarily Hitler himself? Certainly not everyone in the government was immediately wary of Hitler -- Churchill made it his "thing"...

That seems like the most credible reason to me. If Edward had married Wallis Simpson he would have caused a constitutional crisis, so wouldn't giving royal rank to Simpson have not only acknowledged that she could have been Queen, but also angered parliament by giving credibility to a marriage...

Thanks! Glad to be here. Here is a short article about the 1939 visit that George VI and the Queen made to the US on their way back from Canada. This was a very important meeting diplomatically, an instrument of soft power. The press made a huge thing at the time because FDR served up hot dogs...

"Painting Her Majesty The Queen" - Rolf Harris, BBC 2006 I just watched the BBC documentary on Rolf Harris' portrait of the Queen. I remember watching this same doco on the ABC a couple of years ago and being astounded when the Queen said "nope" and "yep" to Harris. It's a fascinating interview...

I absolutely agree. He showed enormous fortitude and inner strength in leading his country through the war. He may have been a quiet man but he showed much more strength than his brother. He was a courageous man with a tremendous sense of his devotion of duty. He changed the way the British...

This is my first post here, and I thought I'd share some insight I've gained into George VI recently, while researching something else. I've been poring over some entries on the BBC's People's War, a sort of online oral history project. There are some fascinating stories there. Incidentally...