The understanding I am talking about is not the feelings of the public for her it was the very strong feeling of loyalty and tradition that surround the British royal family, I donīt think that she understood ever what royalty meant. She gave the Queen mother a nickname, Cookie, said she had no class. She visited the then Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) at Balmoral and suggested removing a hill and some trees to better the view....She treated the royal servants in a way that they were definitely not accustomed to, made them get up or stay up to all hours to make sandwiches and serve her guests.
David showered jewellery on her, and while doing so he was reducing the salaries of some of the royal servants.
She was worried before the abdication it is true, but in my opinion she had banked on being accepted as Queen and a David without title and power wasnīt so attractive to her.
After the abdication she took a King and turned him into a party goer who spent most of the rest of his life worshipping at her feet and if you can believe his biographers pinching pennies. If he had shown promise as a young Prince it was taken away by his obsession for a well-dressed ambitious
woman.
I hope that he did have a happy life but somehow I doubt it.
She told everyone that she did everything possible to stop David from giving up his throne but she was on the phone to him every day telling him what to do.
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