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Vielen Dank, meine lieben Leser und Leserinnen, dass Sie mir durch den Kauf meiner Bücher helfen, meine Geschichtsstudien weiterführen und das Betreiben dieser Webseite finanzieren zu können. Sie können meine Bücher übrigens durch Amazon weltweit, z. B. in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Frankreich, Italien, den USA, Australien und in Japan, erwerben. Das obige Foto von mir stammte aus dem Jahr 1970. Die Disziplin Geschichte war schon immer meine große Leidenschaft.

Thank you so much, my dear readers, for helping me to continue my historical studies and to finance this website by purchasing my books. By the way, you can buy my books worldwide through Amazon, for example in Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, the USA, Australia, and Japan. The photo above was taken in 1970. History has always been my great passion.

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08/03/2016

Abdication: A Very British Coup

A very interesting documentary about the abdication of the English King Edward VIII., which raises the question, whether we people can really live in a democracy. Will the persons we vote for really keep their promises to represent us and our wishes or will they use their rise to power to fulfill their own dreams? Is the form of government we call democracy not rather an oligarchy? The English people loved their King Edward VIII. very much and were willing to accept Wallis Simpson as his wife. But the "establishment", the powerful men in the government, church and the royal court (especially the over-ambitious Queen Mother Elizabeth), did not like the king at all and wanted to get rid of him. Edward's thoughts were too liberal for their taste. Who cares that the English people loved their king and were willing to accept a divorced Catholic woman as his wife? The "establishment" decided according to its own wishes.

Reading suggestion: Susan Williams: The People's King - The true story of the abdication, New York and Basingstoke, Hampshire 2004

and

Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson - Full interview with Kenneth Harris - 1970

and

"Love in Exile" - The Duke and Duchess of Windsor

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Wallis Loved and Lost