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    EDWARD VIII HOLDS ONTO THE THRONE

    Apr 25, 2019 5 minutes
    Interview by Jonathan O’Callaghan

    What were the circumstances leading up to Edward ultimately becoming the king?

    Up until he became Edward VIII in 1936 he was the Prince of Wales and was, of course, the son of George V, with whom he had a rather difficult relationship. His father was someone who was very traditional and had a very strict idea about the role of royal duty. By contrast Edward was really a bit of a playboy who had various affairs with a number of women and who liked socialising and drinking, and really not being the frankly kind of unexciting but dutiful monarch like George. In some ways he was somebody who looked on the surface as though he might be a very modern kind of dynamic monarch, which could excite people in the age of the mass media, and yet this

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