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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC 11 Dec 2016

    King Edward VIII announced abdication 80 years ago today for “woman I love”: #BBCpic.twitter.com/1E0qt97mak

    12:53 PM - 11 Dec 2016
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      2. Holly Hilton‏ @slackferno 11 Dec 2016
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        @kairyssdal Thus was Great Britain saved from a Nazi sympathizer as sovereign.

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      3. jossy spiga‏ @ibejossy 11 Dec 2016
        Replying to @slackferno @BeschlossDC @kairyssdal

        Yes, indeed. Amazing how it worked out so well.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Bartleby‏ @the_scrivener 11 Dec 2016
        Replying to @ibejossy @slackferno and

        wouldn't Elizabeth still have become queen just in the 70s?

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      5. jossy spiga‏ @ibejossy 11 Dec 2016
        Replying to @the_scrivener @slackferno and

        But, if Germany won the war; one wonders what GB would be like.

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      6. Bartleby‏ @the_scrivener 11 Dec 2016
        Replying to @ibejossy @slackferno and

        Don't see how Edward could have lost the war; but maybe could have led to a republic.

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      7. Bartleby‏ @the_scrivener 11 Dec 2016
        Replying to @the_scrivener @ibejossy and

        that is, if he praised hitler and interfered with Parliament, parliament wins

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      8. jossy spiga‏ @ibejossy 11 Dec 2016
        Replying to @the_scrivener @slackferno and

        Was vertical pro Hitler.

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      1. Morgan  ❄️‏ @CantreBreiniol 11 Dec 2016
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        When he visited the distressed Glamorgan coalfield a short time before, he promised "Something must be done!" It never happened

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      1. gamernorcal‏ @gamernorcal 12 Dec 2016
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        what was the real story behind this? I never bought the 'loved this woman' bs.

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      1. Robert Cecil‏ @askcecil1930 11 Dec 2016
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        And the woman guided him, dutifully throughout his life, in a fashion below that of a dynamic monarch.

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      1. Tom Shales‏ @RealTomShales 11 Dec 2016
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Sexual adventurers, both of them, with a fondness for what are now known as 3-ways. This is history too

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      1.  🖇 Scary Lovser from Angry Mob‏ @hanae_56_20 11 Dec 2016
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        without this, we'd have no “King's Speech” 😁

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      1. brett‏ @exley38 11 Dec 2016
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        Americans ruin everything.

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      1. Andrew Poole‏ @caribouwho 11 Dec 2016
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        Beyonce?

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      1. John Bellessa‏ @johnbellessa 11 Dec 2016
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        @kairyssdal doing the world a favor tbh

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      1. Heath Crossland‏ @kunata 11 Dec 2016
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        @kairyssdal Or because he was a Nazi sympathizing spy.

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