An Examination of Edward VIII + Special Guest Jane Marguerite Tippett

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re throwing out our typical script and bringing you a special interview episode. We’re joined by author and archivist Jane Marguerite Tippett, author of the forthcoming book Once a King (out March 2024 in the U.S.), to revisit the legacy of King Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor. Tippett recently unearthed the unpublished notes and memoir drafts of Edward VIII’s ghostwriter, which covers the royal’s relationship with Wallis Simpson, Edward VIII’s view on the abdication, his post-royal life and more.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, hey, please rise for their majesty's of royally obsessed, the podcast for all things
0:07.0	more.
0:08.0	Reaches for his majesty, the case.
0:13.4	Roro's please give a warm welcome to our guest this week, author and archivist Jane
0:18.6	Marguerite Tippett.
0:20.2	You may remember we mentioned Jane's latest work in a recent episode.
0:23.7	She's the person who discovered the treasure trove of information about the scandal prone
0:28.8	to Edward VIII and Wallace Simpson, and her new memoir Once a King is an unprecedented
0:34.8	look at the man later known as the Duke of Windsor, aka Queen Elizabeth II's uncle, and
0:41.3	what Jane uncovered in her research.
0:43.7	Prior to writing Jane's study at the University of Delaware and Oxford, Once a King is out
0:49.1	this month in the UK and debuts in the US next March, welcome Jane, we're so thrilled
0:54.2	to have you.
0:55.2	Thank you so much for having me.
0:57.1	We are so excited to chat with you about all of this, but we want to go back, take us
1:01.5	back to when you were at Boston University, what led you there, and we also want to know
1:06.6	what role Andrew Morton played in helping you uncover that this information existed.
1:11.7	Sure.
1:12.7	You know, I was already working on Edward as a research subject, you know, my plan was
1:17.2	to write a book about the 12 crucial months that followed the abdication, both from the
1:23.6	emotional follow-up to the abdication, but also, of course, significantly that year ends
1:27.8	with his trip to Germany in October 1937, what is, becomes just, you know, kind of the,
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