Stan Orchard
Thankyou for this. I now have the reference: it's in "Clementine
Churchill" by Mary Soames, page 274. The context makes it quite clear that
WSC is referring to Wallis.
Paul Courtenay
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From: "Stan A. Orchard" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] Re: The King's Speech
Incidentally, there was a very interesting interview a couple of days ago
on
CNN with the 73-year-old American screenwriter of 'The King's Speech',
David
Seidler. He was a child stutterer, not a historian, and has worked on
this
project for the past 25 years. He believes that only a stutterer could
have
written the screenplay in just this way.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/01/25/exp.ps.kings.speech.stutter.cnn?iref=allsearch.
It is very hard for me to believe that Winston Churchill could have ever
considered Wallis Simpson to be a suitable or even tolerable addition to
the
Royal Family. So in my opinion, Churchill must have been referring to
Edward VIII in his comment to Clementine at the coronation since it
otherwise seems to fly in the face of Churchill's seemingly life-long
reverence for the institution, dignity and ritual of the British monarchy.
Stan
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Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 9:38 AM
Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: The King's Speech
Paul, thanks. Most sources I checked say WSC made this remark "during
the coronation," but Lady Soames in her CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL says he
made it as Queen Elizabeth (the later Queen Mum) was crowned--so I
think your interpretation that he was referring to Walllis could be
right. I
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