Seven Seas, Nine Lives by Richard Pike

Author:Richard Pike
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783409709
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2013-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chivalrous unselfishness? Bold gestures? The lieutenant contemplates a one-time king who has put self before duty, displayed misplaced loyalties, created a constitutional crisis. Someone who has betrayed trusts and let down his country. As time passes, as dreadful, unpalatable truths seep out, the former King Edward VIII will be ignominiously dubbed the ‘traitor king’. He will be described as ‘a silly man of bad judgement, of vanity, incredibly indiscreet, someone who believed in the likelihood of a German victory when nobody had a right to believe in such a victory, and worst of all who talked about it in places where nobody had a right to talk about it’.

The lieutenant reads on:

Fifteen minutes later, in the music room of the chateau, the couple were married under the rites of the Church of England by the vicar of St Bride’s, Doncaster. The room had been hastily converted to a chapel and the Duke and Duchess knelt in front of an old oak chest which served as an altar. Later, after a buffet wedding breakfast, the newly married couple left for their honeymoon in Austria. The Duke issued a statement which said: ‘After the trying times we have been through we now look forward to a happy and useful private life’ . . .

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