S29E11: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | The Instrument of Abdication
Trashy Divorces
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🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We have journeyed into this trashy series to fall of 1936, and the abdication of Edward VIII is coming fast and hard. The world now knows about Wallis, and everyone has an opinion about the love affair the world can’t stop discussing. From the people to the palace to the Parliament, we have a whole lot of influences in today’s tale. Wallis is not rooting for David leaving his kingdom, but he is a man-child not to be deterred. The King is going to get his girl, even if he loses his crown.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Welcome one, welcome all to Wallace, Duchess of Windsor. |
| 0:29.8 | Alicia here. |
| 0:30.8 | Stacey here. |
| 0:32.0 | She's not quite the Duchess yet of Windsor. |
| 0:34.3 | She's so close to the Duchess part, sadly for her. |
| 0:37.8 | We left in our last episode, Stacey and Friends, with Wallace out of the country. |
| 0:44.1 | Remember, Wallace is getting death threats. |
| 0:46.8 | This is after the first pass of the divorce for Ernest because it's a two-step process. |
| 0:53.4 | And Ernest is having his fling with buttercup |
| 0:56.3 | Kennedy Mary Raffray of course Mary remembers Wallace's best friend from childhood |
| 1:03.8 | David the new king is looking for a way out and most of his advisors are looking for a way out for David too. |
| 1:12.9 | It is a big old hot mess and it's about to get bigger and the heat is. |
| 1:19.2 | Oh yeah, so much messier. |
| 1:20.7 | The heat's really turning up and we're only in the autumn of 1936. |
| 1:26.3 | So with conditions being what they were in England, Wallace is going to stay away. |
| 1:33.5 | She remains out of the country, which, you know, seems pretty logical. |
| 1:37.8 | Wallace is not around in the weeks leading up to the abdication. |
| 1:43.0 | There was so much vitriol and hatred directed toward her that |
| 1:47.3 | the pressure just becomes unbearable. However, escaping the country doesn't really give Wallace a |
| 1:54.7 | free pass when it comes to threats, death and otherwise, and all this vitriol and all this hatred. |
| 2:04.0 | Even far away from the unfolding royal drama, Wallace was the subject of loathing, and she feared for her safety. |
| 2:13.5 | Now, her lover, David, of course, hearing about the threats to assassinate Wallace, he's going to go ahead and speed up his schedule. |
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