This is Thomas anon continuing yesterday's drops.
Yesterday, when i said that Churchil forced Edward VIII to abdicate was because the king was going to do that and he was at odds with Stanley Baldwin the PM (at least according to the official story). It's not CLEAR but it seems Winston Churchil played a role in all of this. I believe he was the one whom convinced the arrogant young king to abdicate.
I got all curious about Winston Churchil so i went to Wikipedia to take a little look at him : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
Here are some interesting segments from that page =
"Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory in Europe in the Second World War. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and British imperialist, for most of his parliamentary career he was a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but for twenty years from 1904 he was a prominent member of the Liberal Party.
Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to an aristocratic family."
"After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government, returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy. "
"A direct descendant of the Dukes of Marlborough, his family were among the highest levels of the British aristocracy,[9] and thus he was born into the country's governing elite.[10] His paternal grandfather, John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, had been a Member of Parliament (MP) for ten years, a member of the Conservative Party who served in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.[11] His own father, Lord Randolph Churchill, had been elected Conservative MP for Woodstock in 1873.[12] His mother, Jennie Churchill (née Jerome), was from an American family whose substantial wealth derived from finance.[13] The couple had met in August 1873, and were engaged three days later, marrying at the British Embassy in Paris in April 1874.[14] The couple lived beyond their income and were frequently in debt;[15] according to the biographer Sebastian Haffner, the family were "rich by normal standards but poor by those of the rich".[16] "
"In 1876 John Spencer-Churchill was appointed Viceroy of Ireland, with Randolph as his private secretary, resulting in the Churchill family's relocation to Dublin, when the entirety of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom.[18] It was here that Jennie's second son, Jack, was born in 1880;[19] there has been speculation that Randolph was not his biological father.[20] Throughout much of the 1880s Randolph and Jennie were effectively estranged, during which she had many suitors.[21] Churchill had virtually no relationship with his father;[22] referring to his mother, Churchill later stated that "I loved her dearly—but at a distance."[23] His relationship with Jack would be warm, and they were close at various points in their lives.[20] In Dublin, he was educated in reading and mathematics by a governess,[24] while he and his brother were cared for primarily by their nanny, Elizabeth Everest.[25] Churchill was devoted to her and nicknamed her "Woomany";[26] he later wrote that "She had been my dearest and most intimate friend during the whole of the twenty years I had lived."["