245. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Doing Time in the Bahamas and Post War Days

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Duke and Duchess should be in their long-awaited wedded bliss period, but King George VI is going to take his brother David up on that past offer to be of assistance, and off the newlyweds go to the Bahamas. The Duke will have a pretty easy job which he won’t do, but Wallis will dazzle. In this episode, David deals with some family hardships as well as the continuing hardships he places upon himself, both during and after WWII. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:01.0	Music Welcome one, welcome all to the penultimate episode of Wallace, Duchess of Windsor.
0:33.5	Hey, Stacey.
0:34.3	Hello, Alicia.
0:35.2	Man, I'm excited.
0:36.4	I know you are.
0:38.1	King is absconded, abdicated, long-lived the king. Shipped off to the Bahamas. Shipped off to the Bahamas. Birdie, new king, George says, hey, David, you want something to do? I'll give you something to do, bro. Let's get you down to the islands. Yeah, I don't think you're going to be much help here in Europe during the war, my friend.
0:56.6	And in this episode, we are doing time in the Bahamas in the first part, and then a little bit
1:03.0	of post-war days.
1:04.2	But there is a world war raging.
1:06.7	There is.
1:07.5	And now, David and Wallace, the couple, are kept in the Bahamas far away from any action of the war.
1:15.5	And this was undoubtedly done to keep the Duke from doing any more damage with his ignorance and petulance.
1:22.8	Sure.
1:23.9	Immaturity, selfishness.
1:26.2	Sure.
1:26.4	So David's stand-up guy that he is.
1:28.5	He thinks this governor of Bahamas job is a real coup.
1:32.5	He's real happy about it.
1:33.6	I would be too, honestly.
1:34.8	No.
1:35.7	He considers the post of governor of Bahamas to be trivial and far, far beneath him.
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