wallis, too, apparently.

Are you talking about Prince Charles??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI

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George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth.

Known publicly as Albert until his accession, and "Bertie" among his family and close friends, George VI was born in the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria, and was named after his great-grandfather Albert, Prince Consort. As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit the throne and spent his early life in the shadow of his elder brother, Edward. He attended naval college as a teenager, and served in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force during the First World War. In 1920, he was made Duke of York. He married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 and they had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. In the mid-1920s, he had speech therapy for a stammer, which he never fully overcame.

George's elder brother ascended the throne as Edward VIII upon the death of their father in 1936. However, later that year Edward revealed his desire to marry divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin advised Edward that for political and religious reasons he could not marry a divorced woman and remain king. Edward abdicated to marry Simpson, and George ascended the throne as the third monarch of the House of Windsor.

Edward the VIII married Wallis Simpson & became the Duke of Windsor after his abdication.

I have always had trouble with the titles in the British royalty.

Otherwise I don't think I could have kept this straight either. LOL

I wonder if the Americans managed to get her into his orbit to seduce him so he would have to abdicate, because someone in American intelligence knew he was too sympathetic to Hitler.

Naaa. But it might make a fun movie, showing the planning and machinations to make it hapoen.

do you think melania is the same for der drumpfenfuhrer? or just his handler?

Not out of the realm of possibilities.

Melania could be a Putin spy than Wallis an American spy. I suspect Melania could find ways to surreptitiously bend trump's will for Putin and influence his decisions, especially over the last few years when trump was getting more help from russian oligarchs.

I think DOTUS is an unwitting asset for Putin and Melania reports back infrequently when things are worth reporting.

He never struck me as being overly bright.

“Vacuity of his conversation.” He was an insufferable snob. He looked down on those of other races and spent his life doing essentially nothing. A waste.

who, thanks to access to the best medical care available, is a robust 91 now.

( has the same birthday as my mother did).

No matter what someone might think of the monarchy, she is an exemplary person. The longest and the oldest serving monarch.

The life of privilege has come at the expense of anything resembling a normal life. People forget that her father didn’t want the job and his wife never forgave his brother for abdicating. It likely sent him to an early grave.

I’ve always had an interest in the British monarchy back to medieval times, but I don’t think I’d ever want that job.