Love listening to Prof. Bogdanor!

Thank you for posting this series. I'm really interested to find out more about King Edward. I had the understanding that he was a philandering playboy, a la George IV. This is really unfair. He seems a very interesting man, and great King. He had a rubbish childhood, thanks to the misguided attitudes of his parents, and was deliberately excluded from any kind of meaningful public role thanks to his mother's need to cling to power. The icing on the cake is that he was able to be a much better parent to his children than his father had been to him. Despite Victoria and Albert thinking him unintelligent, he appears to have a very high EQ and if only he had lived a little longer, who knows if WW1 could have been prevented (although maybe not: the Kaiser was always going to outlive him and then his paranoias would run unchecked). A really interesting lecture, and I'm keen to find out more.

@zzzbbbooo

3 жыл бұрын

Whatever his good qualities...and he had them...it is definitely not unfair to describe him as a philandering playboy because that's exactly what he was.

I like Edward !!! Also thanks Prof Bogdanor, pleasure to listing to you.

If Victoria thought Bertie was unfit as an heir, she had only herself to blame. She did very little to help him.

Such a shame Bertie was only King for such a short time. The Peacemaker.

Recommend reading Jane Ridley biography "Bertie"

@michaelgask

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that recommendation... I've been inspired to find out more 👍

6:00 Did I just hear a heckle in a Prof. Bogdanor lecture?! Everything I ever held to be pure has been destroyed.

@RonJohn63

7 жыл бұрын

_Did I just hear a heckle in a Prof. Bogdanor lecture?!_ I don't think so.

@michaelgask

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I thought so at first, at an interesting point, but I think just a cough! 😂

Raprochement and entente cordiale, I'd forgotten such language existed given the way things are going.

Pledge on a Matter of Public Policy, sounds like something tantamount, to our unreasonable recent governmental actions and inactions. Lord, have Mercy.

King Edward 7 was good King. was bully by his Parent

The Entente Cordiale was the greatest blunder in history... It upset the balance of power in Europe , and led directly to the First World War... Given Britain's alignment with France (and Russia) a huge German war was fairly inevitable... Without that alignment , the First World War would never have happened... Britain had the option of a deal with Germany , which we turned down in favour of a deal with France... Why?!!? It benefited America , but it was a disaster for Britain and Europe... It was a blunder , Prof Bogdanor... largely of Edward VII making... British foreign policy was the preserve of the king , the prime minister and the foreign secretary... Edward VII , Balfour and Lansdowne... Nobody else ! Britain was responsible for the whole sorry mess of the Twentieth Century

Eddy fomented the civil war in the USA and has the main person responsible for the WW's Re: England's Triple Alliance with Russia/France against Germany.

@gerardpatricknoonan1572

6 жыл бұрын

Tommy O Donovan - what are you on about?

@johnries5593

5 жыл бұрын

Strongly doubt the first accusation. Rather, I think US politicians (some dead, like John C. Calhoun) did a fabulous job of doing it themselves.

@lindacharles6581

4 жыл бұрын

Add to the list why don’t you, how about blaming him for the flu. You are sadly misinformed.

@johntuffin3262

4 жыл бұрын

Listen again to 32.51

@zzzbbbooo

3 жыл бұрын

He was known as Bertie, not Eddy.

And the *Jews* in Eddy 7th circle were his bankers. The prince didn't have a farthing so these bankers gave the Prince a high (25%) guaranteed return on his *investments* for present and future economic considerations.

@gidzmobug2323

5 жыл бұрын

Edward had an income--one of his secondary titles was Duke of Cornwall. The Cornwall Duchy provides funds for the heir-apparent.

@johnries5593

5 жыл бұрын

You make it sound as if they were all in cahoots with each other. People are rarely so well organized (remembering that there hasn't been a central Jewish authority in almost 2000 years), even when they have the same ethno/religious background, especially in the long term. People could spin conspiracy theories about The Irish too (and they have done reasonably well here in the USA over the past 150 years), and they would make just about as much sense as the ones I see about The Jews.

@glen7318

3 жыл бұрын

If he didn't have a farthing how did he have investments?