| Captain dEwell | 21 Apr 2015 4:03 p.m. PST |
Of possible interest, a newspaper article identifying Archbishop Cosmo Lang as the "puppetmaster" behind Edward VIII's abdication in 1936. link It may add something to the fighting ability and/or morale of the Anglican League cohorts …it may not! |
| Winston Smith | 21 Apr 2015 7:09 p.m. PST |
If all of it is true, and I never heard of the learned Archbishop, he did a good thing. |
| Fatman | 21 Apr 2015 7:40 p.m. PST |
It appears to be true there was actually a Channel 4 documentary on the subject a few years ago. Archbishop Lang was very active politically at the time. Personally I agree that if he helped remove Edward he did the country and the world a service. Edward, according to many commentators, while personally brave and charismatic was a vain, selfish and morally weak man and I doubt he would have made a good king. Worse the constitutional crisis his relationship would have caused at that time would have weakened the UK during the run up to the coming war. Fatman |
| Tarleton | 21 Apr 2015 10:41 p.m. PST |
"If all of it is true, and I never heard of the learned Archbishop, he did a good thing." Or did he? That could cause a civil war…………….. |
| J Womack 94 | 22 Apr 2015 8:29 a.m. PST |
Plus, old Eddie was a bit too fond of a certain Austrian corporal and his politics. |
| sumerandakkad | 23 Apr 2015 2:59 a.m. PST |
jwomack 94 – A man with a grudge will always find someone who will use him to their own ends. |
| Thomas Mante | 24 Apr 2015 8:52 a.m. PST |
"for some hereditary or physiological reason his normal mental development stopped dead when he reached adolescence" – the opinion of Sir Alan 'Tommy' Lascelles – Edward's private secretary. So maybe Archbishop Lang wasn't far of the mark? |
| spontoon | 25 Apr 2015 12:59 p.m. PST |
How many girls named " Wallis" do you know? Also a damned ugly woman! |
| kahunna | 27 Apr 2015 6:44 a.m. PST |
Maybe yes, maybe no about what kind of a King he would have made. After almost 80 years of anti-Edward propaganda from the Royal Family it is hard to tell. By the way, he wasn't the only one to think well of Hitler (see Lindberg for example). |
| Supercilius Maximus | 28 Apr 2015 5:49 a.m. PST |
He certainly made himself popular with many workers' groups during the late 20s and early 30s (eg Welsh miners), because of his attitudes towards poverty and the class system. |
