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- Title
Monarchy: Kings and Queens.
- Authors
Edwards, Owen Dudley
- Abstract
As the author of a potboiler on Henry VIII 50 years since, he is excessively confident (p. 127): Divorce had been baked into the British monarchy by King Henry VIII who devised the Church of England to make it possible. English history never experienced King Robert (eldest son of William the Conqueror); Henry II's son Henry was called King but never inherited; Edward the Black Prince predeceased his father Edward III; Edward IV's son Edward disappeared in the Tower before coronation; James I (and VI) survived another eldest son Henry; George II lost his son poor Fred thus unleashing Fred's eldest as a very youthful George III; Edward VII outlived his potentially disastrous elder son Albert Victor; and George V's eldest son was Edward VIII, but only briefly. The clearest proof of George VI's having saved a monarchy endangered by Edward VIII is the ex-King and wife bomb-dodging, self-serving, friend-dropping at any sign of their own personal danger, while George's Queen flatly stated their own personal policy of remaining throughout Battle of Britain, Blitz, and the long siege of the island: 'The children can't go without me. I won't leave the King, and of course the King won't go'.
- Subjects
MONARCHY; MARRIAGES of royalty &; nobility; BRITISH kings &; rulers; AMERICANS; ROYAL houses; ROYAL weddings; DIVORCE; FATHER-son relationship
- Publication
Scottish Affairs, 2022, Vol 31, Issue 2, p217
- ISSN
0966-0356
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.3366/scot.2022.0409