As I discovered while researching my new book, Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture, Edward’s relationship with clothing was as complex and intense as his passion for Wallis. Indeed, their shared obsession with style would become a lifelong expression of their peculiarities and peccadillos, as well as providing clues to their notorious pro-Nazi proclivities.
I mean, sure, fashion, but clothing is clothing after all. Still, book to sell etc.
From which I infer that anyone today with a reputation for stylish clothing is in all probability a nazi.
Phew, I’ll be OK then.
Yes. Lord Alli was providing Sir Keir Starmer with a nice wardrobe because he wasn’t sufficiently national socialist looking. Well he is now.
Did he buy his outfits from Hugo Boss?
Yeah the Windsor knot.
Beloved of every schoolboy, because it means you can get a short stubby thick bit and an anaconda thin bit with a humongous knot.
Anyway, while you’re doing it, it looks like a swastika in the mirror.
Perhaps Ted was just a simpleton like our current Charlie?
I am not a simpleton, thank you very much!
More like Andy – totally entitled mindset. That he was thick as well didn’t help.
“as well as providing clues to their notorious pro-Nazi proclivities.”
Oh FFS. In 1937, very few people thought of the Nazis as the All-Time Great Global Villains like we do today.
Historians have observed that the Duke thought that the Nazis were a bulwark against communism, and also, that he wanted to build ties between Britain and Germany that had been shattered by WW1.
Hugo Boss might like a word with you.
So…looking sharp means you’re a national socialist. I suppose that means that the international socialists wore badly fitting cheap suits.
Sounds about right, see the Soviets and the Maoists.
Though I think that had more to do with international socialism having power a lot longer in Russia and China.
It’s all part of the package
Over here ‘beint fit’ and exercising is ‘alt right’ and ‘alt right’ just means ‘nazi’.
Edward VIII left my father in a quandary. He despised the chap.
On the other hand the Church of England wanted him sacked and Dad knew you’d rarely be wrong if you opposed the CoE.
He should have evoked the stopped clock analogy.
In the case of the CoE I’m tempted to invent a “clock running slowly” analogy.
If the clock loses 1 second per hour it’ll be right (if it’s a 12-hour clock) about once every 5 years. So the CoE is like a clock that loses about one tenth of a second per hour if it’s to be right a couple of times per century.
(It’s late and I’m tired so this arithmetic may embarrass me in the morning.)