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PENGUIN BOOKS
THE PEOPLE'S KING
Susan Williams is a writer with a special interest in history and literature. Her most recent books include The Children of London (2001) and Ladies of Influence: Women of the Elite in Interwar Britain (2000) and she has also edited several anthologies, of which The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women won the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Award for Best Anthology in 1996. She grew up in Zambia and has worked as a writer and lecturer in Britain, Zimbabwe and Montreal. She now lives in London and is a historian at the University of London.
Susan Williams served as Historical Advisor to the Public Record Office for the release in 2003 of the government documents relating to the abdication.
SUSAN WILLIAMS
The People's King
The True Story of the Abdication
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Published by Allen Lane 2003 Published in Penguin Books 2004
Copyright Susan Williams, 2003 All rights reserved
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Typeset by Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc
Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser
For Tendayi and Monica
'He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene'
Words spoken by Winston Churchill after saying farewell to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936
from 'An Horatian Ode' by Andrew Marvell, 1650, on the beheading of King Charles I
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Photographic acknowledgements are given in parentheses. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders. The publishers will be happy to make good in future editions any errors or omissions brought to their attention.
1. Edward VIII walking to the Glebe Sports Ground at Abertillery, South Wales, November 1936 (Hulton Archive)
2. Edward with international troops on the Italian Front, 1917 (from F. G. H. Salusbury, George Vand Edward VIII: A Royal Souvenir, London, 1936)
3. Edward visiting Ontario Agricultural College, Canada, 1919 (Ibid.)
4. Edward visiting a miner's home in County Durham, 1929 (Popperfoto)
5. Edward presenting medals to players in a football cup final for unemployed men, early 1930s (Camera Press)
6. Edward receiving debutantes at Buckingham Palace, July 1936 (Topham Picturepoint)
7. Edward with his parents, Queen Mary and King George V, in 19x7 (courtesy A1 Fayed Archives)
8. The Duke and Duchess of York with their daughter Princess Elizabeth at the Richmond Horse Show, 1935 (Hulton Archive)
9. Wallis Simpson on holiday in Europe in 1929 with her aunt, 'Bessie' Merryman (Urban Archives, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)Wallis at the International Country Club, Wien Lainz, Austria, September 1936 (Victoria & Albert Museum Picture Library)
10. Wallis and Edward in Italy in 1936 (Pictorial Parade)
11. Wallis and Edward on holiday in Yugoslavia, 1936 (Hulton Archive)
12. Winston Churchill in conversation with Prince Edward, 1919 (Hulton Archive)
13. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1929 (Hulton Archive)
14. Illustration of Stanley Baldwin speaking to the House of Commons, 4 December 1936 (Camera Press)
15. Crowd with anti-Baldwin banners outside Buckingham Palace, December 1936 (Popperfoto)
16. Telegram to Winston Churchill from the son of Sir Reginald Banks, December 1936 (Churchill College Archives, University of Cambridge (CHAR 2/599))
17. Letter to Edward from an anonymous correspondent, December 1936 (The Royal Archives, copyright 2003 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
18. Letter to Edward from Harold H. Eastlake, December 1936 (The Royal Archives, copyright 2003 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
II)
19. Letter to Edward from an anonymous correspondent, December 1936 (The Royal Archives, copyright 2003 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
20. Wallis at Lou Viei, France, after the abdication (Victoria & Albert Museum Picture Library)
21. Edward and Wallis on their wedding day, Chateau de Cande, France, photographed by Cecil Beaton, 2 June 1937 (copyright Cecil Beaton Photograph/courtesy Victoria & Albert Museum Picture Library)
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1937 (copyright Cecil Beaton Photograph/courtesy Camera Press)
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In his portrait of Edward VIII in the Dictionary of National Biography, the historian John Grigg described the King as a man out of the ordinary, with virtues of moral and physical courage. 'He surely deserves honour', wrote Grigg, 'for the chivalrousness of his decision to abdicate, no less than the perfect constitutional propriety with which it was carried out." I was startled to read this warm description of Edward at the beginning of my research on the abdication. I had boundless respect for John Grigg, but little at that time for Edward. I shared most of the conventional - and unflattering - opinions about him and Wallis Simpson. My plan was to tell the story of the abdication through contemporary letters and the diaries of the British elite, most of whom regarded his approach to kingship as a threat to the survival of the monarchy. They thought even less of Mrs Simpson, and assumed that she was scheming to be Queen.
But I had barely scratched the surface of my research before I realized that the truth might be different. As I watched a newsreel of Edward VIII's tour of the Welsh valleys in November 1936 - when he urged that 'Something must be done' to find work for the unemployed - I saw a man who was visibly moved by the sufferings of the poor. He brought hope to the valleys, as to the other areas of unemployment he had visited as Prince of Wales, and the whole country seemed to admire and appreciate his efforts. I started to see the story of the abdication on a wider screen: it was no longer simply a tale of royalty and the Establishment, but included the ordinary people of Britain. Indeed, as I was later to discover, it also included the people of the Empire, across the globe. Edward's sixty million subjects counted as much in this story as the tiny circle of 'Society'.
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