King Edward VIII abicated to marry the women he loved. Did he live to regret his decision?

King Edward VIII abicated to marry the women he loved. Did he live to regret his decision? Did he make any statements regarding his decision later in life?

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According to his memoirs, no A KING'S STORY (435 pp. )—The Memoirs of The Duke of Windsor—Putnam ($4.50). The Duke of Windsor long obeyed "the rule of reticence that binds kings and princes in a constitutional society."

But after years of widespread "error and supposition" about his eleven-month reign and abdication, he decided to forget his royal reticence, write down his own account of just what happened. Three times longer than the serial version that appeared in LIFE in 1947 and 1950,* A King's Story covers the same ground in more detail. It begins on June 23, 1894 at White Lodge, Surrey, where his royal father, later George V, recorded in his diary: "A sweet little boy was born and weighed 8 Ib."

It ends 42 years later when the Duke of Windsor, briefly Edward VIII, boarded H.M.S. Fury to leave England and his throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson. The duke tells his story with simple sincerity. Preposterous Beetle.In describing the British royal family with its galaxy of relatives and retainers, he shows himself a shrewd and sympathetic observer.

Although his bon vivant grandfather, Edward VII, was obviously closer to his ideal, he treats his strait-laced father with filial forbearance. "It would not be correct to say that he rejected the twentieth century.It was only that he was determined to resist as much of it as he could. " He is less forbearing with the men who forced him to give up the throne.

Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin emerges from A King's Story half Machiavelli, half clown who "hummed intermittently to himself, cracked and snapped his fingers in his peculiar fashion, and puffed contentedly on his pipe," drove a "preposterous little beetle of a motorcar." For the Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, the duke has still less use. The archbishop had an "overanxiety to please," was "more interested in the pursuit of prestige and power than the abstractions of the human soul."

Hackneyed Image. Of the violent public reaction to his romance with Mrs. Simpson he writes bitterly: "The press creates; the press destroys. All my life I had been the passive clay that it had enthusiastically worked into the hackneyed image of a Prince Charming.

Now it had whirled around and was bent upon demolishing the natural man who had been there all the time. " But he can also be whimsically philosophical. "In the clash that .. .

Followed, some professed to see the workings of fate. But the fault lay not in my stars but in my genes. " Although the duke still patently doubts the political "necessity" that forced him off the throne, he nowhere implies regret."So far as I was concerned, love had triumphed over the exigencies of politics.

" Sources: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,814748,00.html .

He lived a long time, but there's no definitive record he regretted his decision Edward VIII abdicated to marry the American divorcee Wallace Simpson. He didn’t have to abdicate legally, but the British government at the time was dead set against it, and would have resigned had he done so, getting him involved as an issue in a general election. He thought it better to resign than to have that consequence.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII_of_the... Did he have regrets. I find no easy sign confirming these. A novel on Wallace claimed she made sure he would never regret the design “The novel The Duchess of Windsor (Hardcover) by Michael Bloch says his wife made sure he would never regret his decision.”

And the trivia library reinforces this: “Happily Ever After: The duke and duchess resided chiefly in France, except from 1940 to 1945, when he was governor of the Bahama Islands. He had only one regret--the slighting of his wife by his mother, who would never receive her, and by his brother, George VI, who meanly denied her official address as "Her Royal " http://www.trivia-library.com/b/famous-marriages-king-edward-viii-and-wallis-simpson-part-2.htm You have to assume he would feel some regrets, because this is a human emotion. S family essentially wrote him off (his sympathies for the Nazi's didn't help him), he got more or less exiled to the Bahamas, where he lived the rest of his life.

He and his wife didn't get invited to family gatherings. The information about him before he abdicated actually indicated he probably would have been a very good king, empathetic, some thought socialist but probably not really, but he cared about people. S regrets if he had them would have been of the sort that he would have been wanting to help more.

And his replacement wasn't very happy at being King, though he did his duty (training Elizabeth his daughter in the stiff upper lip style). But the historical record, at least as accessible in a 30 minutes google search, is that if he had regrets he didn't make them very public.

1 oh gosh look how I spelled abdicated... chalk up another typo... maybe I should change my name lol .

Oh gosh look how I spelled abdicated... chalk up another typo... maybe I should change my name lol.

2 I feel that he did regret it, living in exile all of his life. When Princess Margaret faced the crisis of marrying Peter Townsend, an airforce hero who was a commoner, the Duke made an unexpected visit to London and closed himself up with her. She decided against it (and was unhappy thereafter, I might add), but I think the Duke cautioned her against it, regretting it himself.

I feel that he did regret it, living in exile all of his life. When Princess Margaret faced the crisis of marrying Peter Townsend, an airforce hero who was a commoner, the Duke made an unexpected visit to London and closed himself up with her. She decided against it (and was unhappy thereafter, I might add), but I think the Duke cautioned her against it, regretting it himself.

3 I think he did too... but he made his bed and had to sleep in it. I think the Duchess was a controlling shrew, and he was a weak man.

I think he did too... but he made his bed and had to sleep in it. I think the Duchess was a controlling shrew, and he was a weak man.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.