The King's Speech

DonnaL
Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:58:49 +0000

he never really forgave the royal family for how they treated Wallis



I don’t think the royal family ever really forgave the Duke (or the Duchess) of Windsor for how they treated George VI and his wife Elizabeth,* so I guess it was mutual! And since they were both Nazi sympathizers, not to mention horribly racist and anti-Semitic, it’s really a very good thing that he abdicated, and that they were effectively exiled to the Bahamas during the War.

*I think there’s even a reference in the movie to Wallis’s nickname for her – the fat Scotch cook, or “Cookie.”