Bertie and Elizabeth - Wallis Simpson's Influence

This scene shows the powerful grip Wallis Simpson had over King George VI she made her self at home in many of the palaces firing and rearranging staff who had worked for the royal family for years.

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[mc0558]

My comment was remove! By whom and for what reason?

[willharrydiana]

@mc0558 thats weird?? I didnt do it.

[Diamondenchantress1]

excuse me but wallis simpson was married to Edward the VIII not George VI who is known as Prince Edward, the Duke of Windsor. please get it right

[RuslanaSteph]

@URLy2Rise I agree completely with your statement. A great deal of the tales of Simpson we hear today are fabricated lies, passed down from years of resentment of her. For the creator of this video to point to a clip from a movie/television show as evidence of her charecter is nonsense.

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[seventhsheaven]

@adelgado75 No. She had fascist and Nazi associations that repulsed a country who were about to go to war with Nazi Germany. She would never have been accepted even had she been British.

[lucyintheskywithcake]

this feels a bit.. racist.. against the american wallis.

[trixwiz7]

@Ruth42 Mrs. Simpson, as you say, had a strange s&m like influence over Edward VIII. But it's believed George VI (then Bertie) was also in love with her. Certain letters from people in that circle suggest this may be particularly why she was so despised by the Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

[DaftSwank]

@adelgado75 I believe so . . . Wallis was a dingbat trollop Paris-Hilton-esque party slut.

[Ruth42]

The influence Wallis Simpson had was over Edward VIII, not George VI. Until Edward abdicated, George VI was only Albert, Duke of York.

[finijfk10]

USO A WALLIS COMO EXCUSA PARA NO REINAR

[adelgado75]

If Wallis had been a nice American heiress, never married, and with no 'past' would that have placated the British? Or would they still be opposed to an American woman as their queen?

[URLy2Rise]

Correction of the uploader's description: This excerpt from a film PURPORTS to show (etc.). We do not know that that is true, or of so, true in this instance, or that this matter happened, or that "Bertie and Elizabeth" ever had this conversation. This is a fictional take. It all might have happened exactly like this, but we don't know and neither did the film's makers. The line between the known, verifiable world and fiction is worth drawing.