Timeline for Why was it "acceptable" for Prince Charles to marry a divorced woman, when Edward VIII had to abdicate for marrying divorcee Wallis Simpson?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:02 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 24, 2017 at 13:59 | comment | added | sempaiscuba | I remember reading Charles Higham's book. He makes a good case that Wallis Simpson had fascist (and possibly also Nazi) sympathies, but the problem here is one of timing. For example, the claim that Wallis Simpson passed secrets to von Ribbentrop that you quote could be true, but since von Ribbentrop didn't become Ambassador to London until late October 1936 (just a couple of weeks before the crisis came to a head) this incident is unlikely to have been a factor in the abdication crisis. | |
| May 24, 2017 at 12:49 | history | answered | pjc50 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |