„Я нашёл невозможным… исполнять обязанности короля без помощи и поддержки женщины, которую я люблю.“
Из заявления Эдуарда VIII, в котором он объявил об отречении от престола ради брака с Уоллис Симпсон
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“These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.”
Spoken at an abandoned colliery, November 19, 1936. Often wrongly quoted as "something must be done".
Источник: Matthew, H. C. G., ‘Edward VIII [later Prince Edward, duke of Windsor] (1894–1972)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 21 Nov 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31061,
18 September 1918
Around the World with the Prince of Wales
To Gore Vidal, who described the Duke as having "always had something of...riveting stupidity to say on any subject" (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)
“The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.”
Look magazine, 5 March 1957.
Источник: "Edward VIII, afterwards Duke of Windsor" The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Elizabeth Knowles. Oxford University Press, 2004. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed on 21 November 2008 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t115.e1010
11 July 1920
Around the World with the Prince of Wales
He meant musical comedies."
In conversation with Mona Bismarck and Gore Vidal (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)
6 October 1919
Around the World with the Prince of Wales
A King's Story http://books.google.com/books?id=D2a1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22only+two+rules+really+count+never+miss+an+opportunity+to+relieve+yourself+never+miss+a+chance+to+sit+down+and+rest+your+feet%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage (1951)
9 September 1920
Around the World with the Prince of Wales
Abdication Speech, December 11, 1936, via radio to a worldwide audience. http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/edward.htm
31 March - 1 April 1920
Around the World with the Prince of Wales
9 January 1919
Around the World with the Prince of Wales
Hoping George VI's illness would allow him to resume the throne. Quoted by Christopher Wilson, The Telegraph, 22 Nov 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/6624594/Revealed-the-Duke-and-Duchess-of-Windsors-secret-plot-to-deny-the-Queen-the-throne.html
Of Étienne Dupach, the editor of the Nassau Daily Tribune (Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 448)
14 April 1920
Around the World with the Prince of Wales
23 Aug 1919
Around the World with the Prince of Wales
26-27 March 1920
Around the World with the Prince of Wales
“This place ought never to have been dug up.”
On seeing the great archaeological finds at Taxila, in Punjab (Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 140)
Vidal, Palimpsest, 206
Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36
To John Kenneth Galbraith, who had been appointed American ambassador to India,
