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