Edward VIII

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From the time when, in 1918, he fell in love with Mrs Dudley Ward - fell, God knows, as deeply as any poor lovesick young man can fall - he was never out of the thrall of one female after another. [Socialite Freda Dudley Ward became the Prince's mistress in 1918 and their relationship lasted until 1934.]

There was always a grande affaire and, coincidentally, as I know to my cost, an unbroken series of petites affaires, contracted and consummated in whatever highways and byways of the Empire he was traversing at the moment; for example, the above-mentioned Mrs Barnes of Tanganyika.

To represent him otherwise is not only a flat perversion of the facts of his life, but an injustice to the other actors in the Abdication tragedy - the present King, Queen Mary, Stanley Baldwin, Cosmo Lang [Archbishop of Canterbury] - who knew all too well how materially his whole existence had already been made to conform to what H. G. Wells calls 'the urgency of sex', and that Mrs S. was no isolated phenomenon, but merely the current figure in an arithmetical progression that had been robustly maintained for nearly 20 years.

I shall, in all probability, be dead before the Times article is printed; but I hope sincerely that it will embody the modest emendation that I have made to it in this regard.

I have re-read all that I have written about him, probably the most spectacular, the most discussed personality with whom I shall ever be in intimate association. I can say with honesty that I have set down nothing in malice; indeed, knowing all that I do, I am amazed at my own moderation.

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