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The Duke of York's BBC interview with Emily Maitlis led to the Queen stripping him of his military affiliations, royal patronages and use of his HRH title.
Speaking on The Real Crown: Inside the House of Windsor, which airs on ITVX on April 20, the Duke's nurse said the rejection during the Queen's visit to his house in Paris 'broke his heart'.
Speaking at the Chalke Valley History Festival, Professor Ridley said Edward's abdication stemmed from his father George V's failure to 'build a relationship' with his son. Above: The pair in 1910.
The Bright Young Things thought him a bore, but Jane Ridley's superb biography of George V shows how lucky we were to have him
Courtesy of Karen Rowe Alison Hewitt | March 2, 2021 Florence Howse Ridley, a barrier-breaking academic who was the first woman to chair the modern incarnation of UCLA’s Academic Senate and only the third woman to become a full professor in UCLA’s English department, died Jan. 16 of COVID-19 in her hometown of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She was 98. Ridley came to UCLA in 1957 immediately after earning her doctorate in medieval English literature from Harvard, driving across the country in a car without air conditioning through the summer heat, according to her hometown obituary. S...