The Windsors in exile

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🗓️ 21 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Andrew Lownie discusses his new book Traitor King, which delves into the lives of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson after the abdication crisis of 1936. The discussion ranges from their sympathies for the agents and aims of Nazi Germany to their opulent and eccentric post-war lifestyle. (Ad) Andrew Lownie is the author of Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (Bonnier Books, 2021). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-hexpod&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Ftraitor-king%2Fandrew-lownie%2F9781788704816 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.
0:05.0	A bit of a different thing going on this week.
0:07.3	You've been immature and you've lied.
0:10.3	And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.
0:13.9	I was trying to manipulate you.
0:15.7	Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.
0:18.1	I know, I'd be like, are you joking?
0:20.6	I don't know.
0:21.7	I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. Right. And remember,
0:27.5	it's just between us. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.
0:52.1	I'm Ellie Cawthorne.
0:56.8	The story of Edward VIII and Wallace Simpson is often painted as a great love story of the 20th century,
1:04.3	the king making the ultimate sacrifice by abdicating the British throne to be with the woman he loved.
1:10.7	But a new book by Andrew Launy, exploring what happened in the years after the abdication,
1:16.4	paints a very different picture of the couple's relationship.
1:19.9	Putting the questions to Andrew was our acting digital editor, Eleanor Evans.
1:25.3	Andrew, thanks so much again for joining us on the History Extra podcast.
1:29.4	It's a pleasure to be here again.
1:30.9	And your latest book is Traitor King, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile.
1:36.2	And you write that no book before has started after the abdication in 1936 and looked fully
1:42.1	at what happened to the Windsors in their exile.
1:45.0	And yours is an account that takes in the Windsor's actions through the Second World War
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