Paul V McNutt
Banned
What if Edward VIII married a non divorced woman and stayed on the throne. How would the pro Nazi king have done reigning over a nation at war. Would his desire for a negotiated peace have leaked out?
It's for the best that he didn't find a 'suitable' bride. He'd have been a -10% penalty to industrial capacity, and they'd have had to put in other ministers with IC boni just to bring it back to normal...
Not to mention the -20 to diplomatic relations with any country which wasn't facsist.
Seriously, now, what could Edward VIII do if he were monarch during WWII?
Τry to make UK part of the Axis and then kicked out of office?
Labour was granted significant domestic power in the wartime coalition. I wonder whether King Edward would complain about that - and if so, how much impact he'd have. Would Churchill (no Labour sympathizer himself) actually listen, or would he just tell the King to shut up and not disrupt the coalition?Where things get really interesting is postwar when Lab comes in, because Edward is a true-blue Tory who barely (and sometimes doesn't) conceals his partisanship.
Who do you think invited Labour into the government?Labour was granted significant domestic power in the wartime coalition...Would Churchill (no Labour sympathizer himself)
Oh yes. But I feel that if the king was complaining, Churchill might stop subsuming his own preferences and do something? Maybe? Remember how he said in the 1945 election campaign that they were little better than Communists...Who do you think invited Labour into the government?
Maybe if he were king his attitude would be different. OTL, he did not fall in to line when the war broke out. ITTL he would have quickly learned not to over estimate his own power and he would have appointed Churchill but I still think in his private meetings with the Prime Minister, he would have called for a peace deal. I think that either Chamberlin or Churchill might have made the King's views public and he would have been forced from the throne.