Former King Edward VIII Reveals Views About Winston Churchill in Personal Interview (1964)
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- On 30 November 1964, Edward, Duke of Windsor - formerly King Edward VIII - was interviewed by ITN's Peter Woods. The occasion of the interview was the 90th birthday of Sir Winston Churchill. Over the course of five minutes, the Edward the Abdicator paid tribute to Churchill by sharing a number of memories of the elder statesman, including the first time they met; Churchill's role in assembling Britain's war fleet at the outbreak of the First World War; and the support provided to Edward by Churchill during the abdication crisis of 1936.
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The English language as seldom heard in modern times. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for what? The status quo?
I agree that style of speaking to me is almost intoxicating in its thoroughness and in how noble and specific it is and sadly the english language as it exists today seems almost crude and vulgar in comparison
It definitely IS here in South Australia!
"The King's English"
@@wholeNwon What is the Kings english? Is it the same as the queens English. Im a Repúblican, I dont care.
Ok that's Churchill done.
Now, how did you feel about Hitler?
Well I don't look on him as kindly as Edward VIII or the queen mam did that's for sure!
This is a myth. As PoW ED8 -David as he was , was instructed by the Appeasement government of Baldwin-Chamberlain-Halifax to say whatever he was told to.
Churchill told him to bugger off to Barbados to keep him out of the way. You can hardly say Churchill and Beaverbrook were pro-Nazi.
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😂😂😂
@@BillOdysseyHitler called the Queen mum "the most dangerous woman in Europe" I don't think they liked each other at all
Not forgetting that Winston threatened court marshal in order to send HRH to the caribbean for the duration of the war.
The Duke was far from atypical in his attitude to Nazi Germany
@@jonnyaddlesHelluva thing to be wrong about though
@@margin606like how people were treated who didn't comply with Covid regulations? The same attitudes that brought those about, were the attitudes that allow tyranny. Hindsight is 2020, but maybe learn from history a bit
@@varalderfreyr8438 I don't quite see the Covid parallel but otherwise agree with you wholeheartedly
Churchill betrayed the English race by declaring war on their Germanic brothers. They should’ve allied with Germany. Now everything the Austrian painter predicted is coming true
That was one of his faces. He had at least one other.
Wow you know the royals well...Haha
They cut before they shapeshift.
Don't most of the royals?
I think this is the kind of interview Prince Andrew was expecting. Still an amazing piece of history.
2 months later Winston died, so he got his message of thanks in just in time.
A devious man.
He’s sticking to a script. Must have been a script that the Queen’s people wrote, and he received 10,000 pounds for doing it! He never did anything unless it benefited him. Not unlike another royal we know.
“Queen’s people” = the prime minister 😂
could be
Wallis Simpson didn't benefit King Edward Vlllth in any way. He actually carried religious morals all his life, you know. When David and Wallis were at a party and she was flirting with another man, he approached her and reminded her that she is his wife. David was really an upright moral man. His father, King George crushed his confidence. King George and Queen Mary were more gentler on Princess Elizabeth than they were with their own children. Such a shame David didn't stay as King Edward. Charles would have married Camilla.
@@bonniemagpie9960 I think the government wanted a family man and besides, King Edward the 8th may have had post-traumatic stress disorder and wouldn't have been a very successful King during war.
@@dinkster1729 , King George Vlth stuttered, he was also affected by his strict parents. David said his mother was very cold, this can be seen when young John was put away in virtual isolation because he was an embarrassment. His Governess asked permission to have some friends visit him. Such a thing wasn't in his own mother to be aware or to think about for her son.
This is not an interview. This is a series of canned responses to fed questions. It's like a live enactment of a magazine interview.
Didn’t the Royal family hate Churchill, heard that my grandfather said Churchill was a war monger & alcoholic, & he was in the trenches throughout the 1st world war in France .
What does the Latin "interview" translate to in demotic English?
After The Truth Has Come Out In recent years He Should Have Been Denounced As A Traitor
Interview made under control. It doesn't sound like a spontaneous debate.
Sounds like the interviewer is reading a list, and the D.o.W. is reading a speech. Sounds very unnatural.
interviews with the royals rarely are. the pr teams for the royal family spoonfeed news organizations propaganda, which they regurgitate verbatim to tow the establishment line! and britain gets on its high horse when a dictator does that overseas! 😂😂
@@brucesim2003 Yes, the interviewer is Peter Woods, who became one of BBC TV's high profile newsreaders in the 70s
Of course not. Different times. King-Emperors don't "debate". Would Charles III enter into a debate?
The British Monarchy dodged a bullet when this one abdicated.
“The boy will ruin himself inside of year!”-George V on his deathbed
Since Edward VIII couldn’t have had children w/ Wallis Simpson, Bertie may have succeeded him anyway, but since Bertie died of lung cancer in 1952, a more mature Elizabeth, who perhaps will have had more time to raise her 4 children properly, would have come to the throne after Edward VIII passed away in 1972.
Even though they isn't a future for native Briton's in the UK.
Ja
@@liamthomas2494 very good no more English in Britain 💪
There is a back story on this royal number as he was trying to do a deal with Hitler resulting in him (Edward) returning to England.
An earlier version of Harry, but higher IQ.
Harry was never going to be King.
@@lisamyles9503
That wasn’t the comparison that I made.
Rather, the similarities are in character and intelligence : weak, whiny and iinbred thick.
Same genetic material...unfortunately the less desirable characteristics...
@@lisamyles9503Precisely. However be not deceived, he would dagger his brother in a heartbeat to become King. (As the Duke of Windsor conspired, to become King again.) Treacherous the whole lot (the Windsors and the Sussexes)!
Certainly a higher IQ.
There are some amazing pictures of the review of the fleet at Spithead in 1914.
If only Edward could have been asked about his role in the murderous scandal of Marguerite Alibert, aka. Princess Marie Marguerite Fahmy.
She was Edward's beautiful, high-class French prostitute during WWI, to whom he foolishly wrote numerous embarrassing letters which she kept.
Marguerite Alibert later married a wealthy Egyptian Prince, whom she murdered in London in 1923. She shot him twice in the back and once in the head with a pistol. However, key-evidence about her real background, and previous gold-digging activities, was mysteriously suppressed by the judge, and she was cleared on the dubious grounds that she had been 'acting in self defence.'
It is virtually a certainty that a deal was done in secret, saving Edward's ex-mistress from conviction and the hangman, in return for Edward's letters to her.
So Royal karma is at work
@@mioarasaadi3493 I don't think karma applies here. Britain's system of government, and social order, had to be protected at all costs.
In the 1920s, there was no way that the British establishment was going to permit the popular young heir to throne to be exposed in the international press as having been the naïve love-sick puppet of a devious foreign prostitute.
Interesting..
@@Rasscasse It's not the only murder scandal that Edward was involved in. Try Googling 'Harry Oakes murder.'
Thanks that’s really interesting
Edward Vlll was a womanizing drunk who lived his life under the thumb of Wallis Simpson, who incidentally couldn't stand Edward. I guess after years of pondering his life he could talk a good game. Thank God for George V1 and Elizabeth 11!!
You're not quite right. David did no womanising after marrying Wallis. It was Wallis who flirted with other men, she being hermaphroditic, didn't mind the gay types. When David saw her flirting at a party, he approached her and reminded her that she is his wife. She was so nasty towards David it wasn't funny.
Yeah he wasn't the most reliable man for the job. Sounds like he was easily led by a few people mainly Wallis. Doesn't sound like he was any happier with her.
@@bonniemagpie9960 She gave him her mouth, and her bum. She was in many aspects an Only Fans girl, way before the internet.
Elizabeth 11? What happened to the 10th? Rotflmao
There is no such number as V1 and no such Queen as Elizabeth the Eleventh! Those numbers should be "VI" and "II"!
Obviously a well rehearsed and tactical interview - the Duke loathed Beaverbrook....
3:47 Interesting that he said "ports - MOUTH" and not "ports - muth" as several websites say is the pronunciation of Portsmouth even in the UK
Perhaps those of his generation and class pronounced it that way.
I have the misfortune to live across a harbour from that rancid city. I can confirm that the pronunciation is Portsmuth, or as its natives would coarsely grunt, 'Pawtsmuff'...
@@danielkarmy4893 Ah...lovely Portchester?
He has weird, upper class pronunciation. Your websites are correct.
With the benefit of hindsight, most of humanity has come to support Edward's decision to abdicate.
Correct, I think that Kate Middleton has come to the same realisation, Diana was unable to dodge the bullet, that mystery when to the grave when the Queen passed recently, I am convinced that MI5 and / or MI6 were involved.
That's a very good question!
His replys were so heartfelt he had to read them. Most likely written by his PR person.
NO it was probably written by the staff of Buckingham and edited by the settjng monarch
Seriously he is reading his answers? Obviously he was given the questions way before hand. They just don’t seem genuine.
Few celebrated persons--let alone royals--gave ad hoc interviews in those days. The erstwhile king desires to get his answers (which will be historic record) absolutely correct. His late-in-life interview with CBS (I think it was featured on 60 Minutes) is unrehearsed and quite touching.
You can watch interviews with David and Wallis Simpson where they are very spontaneous.
LIke Joe Biden of the USA
I’m so used to seeing the actor from The Crown, it seems weird to see the real guy…😂
😂
That's sad
'The Crown ' is not a documentary as some might imagine...
@@user-pj8uj7wx3s of course not - but it’s highly entertaining! And some of the actors have done a remarkable job of impersonating the real royals.
Hahahaha 😂
This is a rather candid and rehearsed interview. Signed and sealed. J
This is a very odd way to conduct an interview. The pauses etc, and his tone of voice sound as though he is trying to reach those 'in the back row of the auditorium'. He really is reading a speech.
TV interviews were in their infancy - I guess that could play a factor.
Pauses? That's called editing. It also allows the speaker to properly finish what they were saying without interruption, which is a common feature of present day interviewing.
Edward had a massive stutter, which the film ‘The King’s Speech’ documented.
The pauses are to enable the King to compose himself before the next phrase.
@Pandabee11 have you watched The King's Speech? As if you have, you'll find that it was in fact based on Edward VIII's brother, George VI.
It was Edward ViII's successor and brother George VI who had the stutter featured in that film.
Impressive to see him on film.
Really nice suit.
He sounds like he’s reading from a cue card??
Yes he is reading from the papers .
Curious. It's like he's reading a speech. He keeps looking down to his paper. Also his accent's changed or maybe I'm only just aware of one now. There's not much about of him talking. There's the abdication speech (issued on record) but there doesn't seem to be much else mainstream. There's almost an accent or dialect in this. Some of the vowels seem a bit odd e.g. the way he says 'ago' at 0:39 is telling and there's a bit of the Sean Connery in the S's.
He sounds like he’s picked up a bit of his wife’s accent which wouldn’t be unusual considering his reportedly childlike infatuation with her
@@brianboyle2681, Shame he met Wallis. She was so cruel to him. He couldn't escape Gemini's, his Great Grandmother (Victoria), his father, his mother, Wallis and then he dies in the month of Gemini ♊.
Is the ex King doing a lecture??
I know. Talk about being scripted.
He reads not his notes, but above the shoulder.
clearly the questions were submitted in advance and the responses were composed at leisure, which he then reads aloud . There is nothing spontaneous about this interview at all
When was this recorded?
1964
Historical fact. Following his abdication, the Duke of Windsor reserved a grave plot in a cemetery in Baltimore, MD for himself and Mrs Simpson.
True. 2 plots in Greenmount Cemetery.
So how did they end up at Frogmore?
@@Honeybees1005 I don't think they knew exactly where they were going to end up.
@@bonniemagpie9960 The Queen gave her permission for them to be buried there. FAR away from everyone else in the family who is buried in Windsor.
@@elizabethhopkins7582 , Did Edward/David asked to be bury at Frogmore as first preference, in his Will maybe?
Thank God Edward wasn’t a king of England when the WWII broke out
Why?
@@Britain99 He was a Nazi sympathizer.
Ja!
@@Britain99 he was a Nazi
@@Britain99 he was a bit too close with the nazis, if he wasn't a full on Nazi
I almost thought he was going to say one of Churchill's greatest achievements was the landing at Gallipoli. Maybe that's one they're trying to forget.
Yup
Yes...he made plenty of mistakes but appeasement, lying to parliament and the public about the extent of Germany's rearmament, refusing to rearm GB from 1934 were not his mistakes. Those decisions cost MILLIONS of lives. The same people that brought about WW2 were the same sanctimonious idiots that took pleasure reminding Churchill of Gallipoli. We"re lucky he wasnt killed in the trenches after he volunteered... nor did he commit suicide as he had contemplated (over Gallipoli) without the mental strength he had he wouldn't have made it back for WW2 and cut through swathes of cowards & pencil pushers to destroy the Kriegsmarine's ability to cover an invasion of GB .. and the Battle of Britain would have been lost without Beaverbrook's appt. Its a bit trendy to knock Churchill ... not surprising given school curriculum covers him in 15 mins without exploring any context....so we get those that think they have some secret superior judgment the rest of us don't have The truth is it' unlikely Poland or France would have been invaded had GB been able to defend itself and its European neighbours properly from a Nazi threat... exactly.as Churchill (alone) was advising Parliament in countless speeches from 1934 onwards....but the same idiots nearly sacrificed the near whole British Army at Dunkirk as part of their grossly negligent preparation for war. Maybe we should have given the Nazis free-reign & power to decide which GB citizens were suitable for exterminatio. camps.
Such a natural conversation.
You're kidding. It sounds like a lecture
You're joking. It sounds more like a lecture
Wow!
The workd didnt know about the Marburg papers at the time of the interview.We do now .
Very nice and clear English. English is my third language btw.
Look at the hand, it reveals a lot.
Wow. How interesting this is JUST coming to light!
I forgot what he was talking about but he was referencing the proposed King's Party with supporters such as Oswald Mosley, Harry Pollit, Walton Newbold, former PM David Lloyd George, who were all going to be led by Winston Churchill.
What a damaged individual. Britain dodged a bullet when he abdicated.
Ja!
Obviously reading from a pre prepared script.
Winston was the stuff
Does anyone know who the interviewer is; he looks vaguely familiar albeit much younger than I remember him.
Peter Woods. It's in the Description.
Apart from the news , he appeared as a sailor dancer on thec Morecombe and wise show
@@gerardtoner9191 All the dancing sailors in that "South Pacific" sketch were newsreaders and presenters of the time.
@@tonywalton1464 yes I remember , blooming eck where's the time gone
He couldn't review the fleet at Spithead nowadays - a tour of the dockyards where they are being repaired would be more instructive!
At least he could get a Starbucks.
A great history----THANKS IN 2024
What a VERY strange "interview" 😮
Actually, Churchill hated him.
Obviously you don't read much.
Not at first. He was very much an ardent supporter of Edward AND Wallis.
That is not true. Churchill went out on a limb for King Edward VIII.
Its the institution of monarchy Churchill loved. He fear what Britain would become without it. They all live in fear of bolchevics and people's revolt.
@KevTheImpaler
@@roseanne74 But I do think in time Sir Churchill could see behind the smoke screen and see things as the truly where!
Sir Churchill was a very smart man!
My great grandfather flew him in a plane back in 1918 - was repremanded by his superiors and latter receiver a silver cigar box from prince Edward.
Winston Churchill bent over backwards to keep Edward and wallis entertained and out of the way during WW2. It not like he had other things to do like idk deal with the war, instead he had to waist so much time and energy on these 2. The original harry and megaliar.
Winston Churchill was an alcoholic.
Churchill was wrong about a hell of a lot but not the most important one!
Winston’s my hero. Edward is a rube.
Any reminiscences of hitler ??!!!
Film technology of a bygone age,,,,voice required projection and clear enunciation.
Editing was a clumsy time consuming skill.
Part of the education was proper deportment and correct speech.
"A bygone age" and "Editing was a clumsy time-consuming skill" Really?
This was filmed in 1964, not 1864.
In case you didn't know the version of the film that you see here is composed of the "first edit" clips which have been edited together only inasmuch as they are shown sequentially.
Have a look at other material on the ITV Archive and you will see more in the same style. That style, you will note is not how it looks when they punt it out on the likes of News at Ten.
Show this seems prepared for him and like someone had the questions before the interview. Seeing as he's reading all the answers as if they r from a book. Not a memory
The best thing this man, if you can call him that, did was abdicating. His brother and neice were great monarchs that the UK needed in times of crisis and are the reason the monarchy hasn't already been abolished
It was his tenth decade.
It's a jolly good thing you liked the Bahamas so much in life, Edward - I've heard it's rather hot where you are now, too...
'Britisher' makes him sound like a villain from a Biggles book - hang on a sec?!?!?
Well, 'British citizen' would've been rather awkward coming from a royal.
@@WhiteCamryIt's a Germanism but then that's not much of a surprise is it?
He was a "villian" just not in a Biggles book.
@@Agnemons haha yep - agreed. I believe he appeared in the hackneyed and derivative tv series 'reality'
God bless Winston and King Edward VIII
Eddie been on the helium??
Beautiful English.
🇬🇧 My Great Aunt was cook to Wallis Simpson when she stayed at the Beach House Felixstowe awaiting her divorce from Ernest Simpson c.1937. My birth Mother's second husband, Gordon Rogers, bought Harvest House Hotel, Felixstowe, where Wallis and Edward 8th spent some time.
The interviewers accent is a total joke, he’s posher than Edward.
This is the early days of television, they were told it was necessary to speak this way in order to be on television, much like people on the stage.
They hadn’t totally figured it out but then, basically this was radio with some pictures .
Read a script prepared by The Palace!
Enters upon his 10th decade, surely?
Oh wow what a natural conversation. You can really hear the spontaneity
Ok, so that was scripted & for public consumption..... given what he must have known about how much Churchill disliked, distrusted & considered him a threat to the country, democracy & at that time, the Empire..... what was he after? Running short of cash? Looking to be influential in a much changed world. The perfect example of why the French got it right in 1789.
Although quite haughty in his manner, HRH has a surprisingly 'common' accent for a Royalty of the first half of the 20th Cent.
I believe his accent was influenced by one of the nursemaids/governesses who looked after him during his childhood. She was from London, and so he spoke in a kind of sing song style with a hint of posh Cockney thrown in!
@@user-gs2vc2ew7z Now that is a jewel of inside information. Well done.
The high blink rate is odd... body language expert?
Poor guy… although there was nothing materially poor about him. Just a flawed man like the rest of us.
He died in 1972, so had he not abdicated, all things being equal, Queen Elizabeth II would only have had 50 years on the throne.
Charles would probably have become king in 1972 not his mother
He might have married someone else to reproduce.
This guy was 100 percent corrupt his words carry no weight
Churchill was entering his prospective tenth decade, albeit soon curtailed. He had completed his ninth.
Mmm 🤔 ask about your thoughts & friendship with Hitler sir ? Without notes 🗒 🇬🇧
Ask the same of Henry Ford and numerous other American companies! Profit above honor!
@@mymonster156 Ask _The Donald_
Absolutely disgraceful how much we have given away since the 60's and how much we have lost still. If we don't force change, it'll be too late.
I’m Australian but England is going to the dogs once the greatest country in human history
Actually Churchill, by turning 90, was entering his tenth decade, not his ninth.
Would his 90th decade of life have begun at 91?
@@wholeNwon Yeah, sure.
They put his tomb along the driveway where it is always muddy.
One of the most natural and unscripted interviews in history.
Wasn't Beaverbrook an appeaser, like Edward? 'Hardly odd they were friends, then. Given, however, that Churchill was against The Abdication and soon acted to keep The Duke out of WWII, I honestly don't think their friendship endured beyond the mid-1930s, whatever The Duke might say here.
Churchill may have been dying and this interview might be about David showing 'no hard feelings '.
@@bonniemagpie9960Possibly.
I have no ideas whether Beaverbrook was an appeaser or not, but once he got into the business of defeating the Nazis, he did an extraordinary job of it. Beware of people who act quickly on impulse, but praise those who think, choose their moral camp, and then efficiently get the job done. Only fools don't change their mind. Maybe Beaverbrook was an appeaser at some point in his life, but he definitely did his part to defeat the Nazis.
The Duke loathed Beaverbrook - this was very much a rehearsed and tactical interview.
Beaverbrook was not an appeaser.
Ancient time people were clear
Nice to see him not giving a Nazi salute.
This interview sounds well scripted and rehearsed.
An interrupted scripted monologue?
waiting for him to talk about his meeting with hitler at pizza express
Attempts to dominate the narrative should fail, history needs a longer term of hindsight to judge someone, not just an anecdote or a spate of widespread confusion, or misinformation
We all know the Duke of Windsor was a Nazi sympathiser who would have been only to eager to have become a puppet King for Hitler had he successfully invaded Britain. He never wanted to abdicate in the first place...
Well, we are in 2024, this was in the 196x, how much time do you need? 2000 years?
@@yl9154 huh?
"Being a Britischer" 😂 kind of says it all
Could he have prevented WW2 by not being forced out?
Indeed very odd traces of a Cockney accent in his speaking, often described in books about him.
The only language that David spoke with perfect modulation was German. He and his brother Bertie (George VI ) spent many happy times at Cecilienhof in Germany, with the Crown Prince and Crown Princess Cecily.
Since queen Victoria (maybe even before) the royal family is of German descent
@@emilinebelle7811Anglo Saxons are Germans
Definitely, King George lst, spent all his time in Germany.
@@emilinebelle7811 Her first language was German. Several experts were hired to rid her of a German accent when she spoke English. All of her children spoke German. Even Prince Philip spoke very good German. I think King Charles and Prince William can make themselves understood in German, too.
He is definitely not a person I would like to sit at a dinner party with!
Aww I would have loved to have had a lunch and chat with David, once. Things and events in his life, you know like how he talks about his father how he always wore a top hat and talks about his mother and siblings, their upbringing. Shame he didn't stay as King. He was actually very God fearing. When Prince William becomes King (and he is Cancerian as was King Edward Vlllth), God and Church comes number 17 behind other duties. The Church is no longer priority for Royal figureheads. They are all about State.
Churchill knew from his intel that Edward Windsor was a traitor
Should you be King?
I love the accent.
Sir Winston Churchill was a Great Man and he was loyal,dedicated, and determined!
Various comments have been made that assume the worst of Edward, but I for one admire the fact the he seemed truly grateful for Churchill’s actions. In this age in complete ingrates, someone who remembers the friends when times were hard, are rare indeed!
He most have felt pretty bad about the Irish ..