Edward VIII never meets Wallis Simpson

I once toyed with TL where he met and married someone around 1919/1920.

They had a son (born around 1921/22) and daughter (born 24/25) before he (Edward) dies in the late 20s

When George VI dies in 1936 his teenage grandson becomes King at the age of 14/15, and like Elizabeth he lives to this day.
 
I think E8 would have found another reason to abdicate.....convert to Roman Catholicism or something. He'd mentioned something about his brother being better suited to Kingship than himself way before George V entered his final illness.
He convert to Catholicism is like the Pope becoming Jewish. It would not be pretty.
 
I do not believe the man wanted to be king. The comment on Bertie being better suited for kingship than him, the continual (deliberate?) venture into political commentary, his comment (after coming to the throne) that if they wanted his father for king again - they could have Bertie, his irresponsibility when he became king (leaving dispatch boxes open and laying about), he was not into responsibility, just adulation. He thought his 'personal popularity' would carry him through, and was actually shocked to realize that HE had to do HIS bit before they would back him - and his bit was not to marry a woman who'd been around the world (in more ways than one) more than once and carelessly left living husbands in her wake. Her mistake was believing him when he said he'd make her Queen; his mistakes are numerous.
 
I once read that he married her because she was the only woman who could sexually satisfy him, and that she consulted prostitutes for sex techniques before that.
 
I once read that he married her because she was the only woman who could sexually satisfy him, and that she consulted prostitutes for sex techniques before that.
Specifically, she was supposedly the only woman who agreed to oral sex, which was very scandalous at the time.
 
She didn't officially consult the pros, to set the record straight. First husband Win Spencer dragged her to "singsong houses" (Chinese brothels, usually boats at that time), either to humiliate her or show her what he liked ..... or both.

A 'lady' wouldn't go to one. Not then.
 
She didn't officially consult the pros, to set the record straight. First husband Win Spencer dragged her to "singsong houses" (Chinese brothels, usually boats at that time), either to humiliate her or show her what he liked ..... or both.

A 'lady' wouldn't go to one. Not then.
I think I'm starting to get why she was thought of as unacceptable.
 
If you go through with the idea he marries someone before he meets Wallis (or never does), there's always room for affairs, hardly unheard of. Of course can you imagine a settled, coronated King Edward VIII turning around circa 1940 and asking for a divorce so he can have Wallis/other mistress?
 
If you go through with the idea he marries someone before he meets Wallis (or never does), there's always room for affairs, hardly unheard of. Of course can you imagine a settled, coronated King Edward VIII turning around circa 1940 and asking for a divorce so he can have Wallis/other mistress?

Highly doubtful he'd do that.

If you were asking me I hadn't really made a firm decision but in the pre-antibiotics era it would not be hard to find a bad flu or something.

Very true
 
Actually, I could see E8 doing just that: asking Princess Goldilocks for a divorce so he can marry Wallis. And if he 'has' to give up the crown, oh well, so sad, he was only interested in money. (Have any of you read his reaction to his father's will? Edward was the Duke of Cornwall and Lancaster and had all those funds and he threw a hissy because his father didn't leave him money like the lesser funded siblings!)

Either that, or he'll make Ernest Simpson a Duke so Wally will have a title and "The Unimportance of Being Ernest" will be a real Broadway play.
 
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