-People were very shocked at the time.

I think he wanted, perhaps, to put the record straight a bit.

I think he realized how shamefully, in a way, he'd behaved, how he'd let everybody down, how he'd only thought of himself.

-Can you tell me, sir, just why you wrote this book?

-Well, there were several reasons that seemed quite compelling.

In the first place, many misconceptions, speculations, and rumors about my life, my reign, and the abdication have been current through the years.

♪♪ ♪♪ -There's no room for two kings in Britain.

It just can't happen.

♪♪ -They were courting Hitler, and they thought, I think, that if Hitler conquered Britain, well he probably would have waved the Nazi flag from the top of Buckingham Palace, I don't know, welcomed them all in, I should think.

♪♪ -How could it happen that this man gave up an empire for this woman?

-If you had it all to do over again, would you make the same decision?

-Fortunately, a king has only to make one such decision.

-The drama of these two couples who couldn't be more different, representing two sets of values, and they're all wrapped up in all the trappings of the Royal Family.

-It's a soap.

I mean, it's not a soap, I know, but you know what I mean?

-Wallis was like a diamond, and the Queen Mother was like a pudding.

♪♪ ♪♪ -Wow.

These photos are absolutely extraordinary.

♪♪ One brother who used to be king.

One brother who became king and never wanted to be.

And in their relationship, we see what changed the country forever.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -In May of 1939, George VI and Elizabeth were the first British monarch and his queen to visit the United States.

♪♪ They laid down plans for how America could help Britain if war broke out.

♪♪ There was a real personal bond between Roosevelt and George.

On the last day, the Roosevelts gave them a picnic.

♪♪ The menu included the American specialty, hot dogs.

Neither of them had ever seen a hot dog.

Roosevelt said to him, "George", he said, "just stuff it in your mouth and you'll be fine."

[ Chuckles ] -He had a hot dog, and somehow, you know what Americans, well, they're quite childish sometimes, Americans, and because he'd never eaten a hot dog, horrified by its appearance, I think.

Anyway, he did, for the sake of Great Britain.

He munched on this hot dog and said it was delicious or something.

So that went out frightfully well, not that the Americans joined the war then, I'm afraid, we had to wait till Pearl Harbor, but still.

[ Siren wailing in distance ] -There's always a sense, for both Edward and Wallis, that America is their country.

But it's a future, it's a place of opportunity, it's a place of democracy, it's a place where they will be accepted.

And they spent a lot of their time at the Waldorf Astoria, New York.

They think they can have this life where they are not just respected, but they are adored.

They were celebrities.

They were people who were the most invited couple in New York society.

-I think it was the 28th floor.

They had the whole floor there.

There were great people who lived there.

I heard they would come over with up to 100 pieces of monogrammed Louis Vuitton luggage, can you imagine?

The best part of royalty is coming to visit, with American roots, our queen.

-Edward liked anywhere that he went, including Nazi Germany, where people fawned over him and made him feel special, and treated him like a king.

-After some very pleasant and interesting visits in America, we are, of course, glad of this opportunity of coming to New York.

[ Cheering ] -The Americans are fascinated by a royal family.

Well, they were royal, up to a point.

[ Chuckles ] Well, he was.

She especially loved partying, and he completely was enthralled to her.

It's a sort of soap.

I mean, it's not a soap, I know, but you know what I mean.

♪♪ ♪♪ -The Royal Family were loved in New York, but the Windsors were adored.

I don't think the fact that they were royal really mattered much, it was their style.

They were like movie stars.

It's rather like Meghan and Harry.

I mean, wouldn't you rather live in Hollywood and see a lot of movie stars than live in that awful York cottage and go and have to open fetes in the rain?

I mean, come on.

[ Siren wailing in distance ] ♪♪ The social editor of Vogue said to me, "Well, mate, do you want to have lunch with the Duchess?"

I thought, "Do I want to have, what?

Yes."

So we went to the -- next day or the week later, went to the Colony.

It was the back table at the Colony, which was the best table.

As always, the best table's the farthest bit of the room, so you could be seen, making our entrance, and suddenly there was total silence.

Coffee spoons dropped into cups, forks felled on plates, and the Duchess appeared at the door, and people went... Everybody turned.

And she just walked through the room smiling, and she came, and she sat down, she said, "Hi, I'm Wallis."

She was sassy.

She -- She threw the ball back, you know, she kept the conversation going, "Oh, do you think so?

Yeah, why not.

Just -- And do you see what she was wearing?"

I mean, she was all that kind of stuff.

She couldn't put a foot wrong, she was magic.

She just talked as if she was an old friend.

There was no ceremony whatsoever.

You could not be more ordinary and yet more special than she was.

♪♪ Wallis was like a diamond, and the Queen Mother was like a pudding.

It's more like nanny being funny.

Wallis was quite innocent.

The Queen Mother was much more aware of the court of intrigue and drama.

Cecil Beaton said she was a souffle of crowbars.

I think that's probably true.

-This wasn't a battle between two men, but between two women.

Wallis was a woman of the world.

She'd traveled everywhere, she'd been everywhere, she'd been married twice and had love affairs.

She was a woman of great experience.

Elizabeth, on the other hand, had not had the lovers that Wallis had had.

She was frightened of Wallis, Wallis wasn't frightened of her.

♪♪ ♪♪ -In 1947 Henry Luce, who was the owner of Life Magazine, said to Edward, "I will pay you as much as $100,000 in exchange for you telling us your life story."

♪♪ This had never been done before.

A former King selling his life story to an American magazine was seen as somewhere between unprincipled and obscene.

And he's included this very candid picture of the two of them as boys, and he's even captioned it, "Bertie, self."

And I think that's actually more telling than Edward believed, because, who was he at this point?

He was going all over the world selling himself for money.

He was a prostitute on the grandest scale.

When this copy of Life Magazine arrived at Buckingham Palace, would have been late December 1947, and for King George VI it would have been the Christmas present from hell.

♪♪ -George didn't begin to exhibit the symptoms until early 1948.

He was having a lot of pain in his legs, and he was having difficulty walking, and they finally diagnosed arteriosclerosis.

From that time forward, he was seen less and less.

-Unfortunately, he smoked, he was a chain smoker.

People did smoke.

My mother was a chain smoker.

Everybody smoked.

And the king was a chain smoker.

-By 1949 he had a blockage in one artery in his leg, and he had to have nerve cut from the base of his spine.

And when the king became ill, it caused great alarm within the corridors of power.

Princess Elizabeth, now in her early 20s, was the heir to the throne, so they started to think about, well, maybe we're going to have to have a regent.

And who is that regent going to be?

♪♪ -Relationship between Edward and George has been building to a head for years.

And eventually, Edward came to Buckingham Palace, a place that had once been his home, and he shouted and stomped around and threatened to kill himself because George will not give Wallis this HRH title.

With his health declining, George drafted the letter to his brother, which was never sent in his current form, but it's an incredibly strong piece of writing, and I have a copy of it here.

This was written on the 11th December 1949 -- "In our talk the other evening, you told me that your life was not worth living.

You resented the fact that I would not provoke the letters patent, depriving your wife of a title HRH, and that in not doing so I must hate you.

All this, though you may not realize it, has hurt me very much."

You have the idea that finally, George is saying, in black and white, it had hurt him, and I have nothing but sympathy for George reading that letter.

♪♪ -Wallis was a sensible woman, and I don't think that being called Your Royal Highness meant that much to her.

It went to the core and of the hurt that he felt because it was saying she's not your wife, and I think that's what -- how he interpreted them being stripped of, and there's no precedence.

If you're -- if you're married into the Royal Family, you know, you're Your Royal Highness, there's no precedence to it.

When she would enter a room, it was very grand, and she would be announced, which I thought was a wonderful thing.

But -- -So when you say "announced", like, what...?

-Her Royal Highness is coming down.

George, who was the senior Butler, said Her Royal Highness is about to come down.

And I think it was sort of meant, "You come with me into the foyer and meet her again."

The Duke was hurt beyond belief and that's why he insisted that in the house people refer to her as Your Royal Highness.

I don't think it meant tuppence of difference to her.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -After Edward sold his early life story to Life Magazine, which was bad enough in itself, he decided to go the whole hog and write his memoir.

The idea was it would initially be serialized in Life Magazine, because the initial revelations had been so popular.

Edward was now offered a huge amount of money from a combination of the publishers and Life, in order to put down his story of his meeting Wallis, the Abdication crisis.

In other words, as the Americans would say, the whole nine yards.

♪♪ It's one of the most famous covers of Life Magazine ever printed in its history.

What you can see from this picture is, if they stand united against all the forces that would seek to break them.

♪♪ -Then as now, the relationship with men and women is the thing that interests me most in the world.

I'm always trying to find out how couple's work and why they don't work.

Why this man is attracted to that woman, and vice versa?

It is the most fascinating question of all.

[ Speaking in German ] -[ Speaking in German ] -It was very odd relationship, because it was so obvious that he liked to be the inferior.

He act as if he was her slave, and that could only happen because he liked it, because that is what he wanted.

How could it happen that this man gave up an empire for this woman?

She must have had something that was irresistible to him, and I'd tried to find out, or sniff out, what that could have been.

She had made him into... ...whatever it was he became, a survivor, or whatever.

A man who could survive losing the throne, and she managed to talk himself into being happy about that.

What really, really happened inside the soul of that man, I don't know.

Human relationships are always double edged or multi edged, yes?

You can be at the same time, be desperately happy and desperately unhappy with the same person.

It's -- We all know that, you know.

She made him believe that he was desperately happy.

♪♪ -They didn't exude any sex appeal, but nor did she.

That was probably what their secret -- Nobody tried to steal them from each other.

No girls threw themselves at Edward and no men threw themselves at Wallis.

They were sort of untouchable.

♪♪ I first met him, we went to -- I went to the theater with a friend.

We were in the same row as the Windsors, and we had to pass them to get into our seats.

She stood up, and he just sat there.

I remember that was very odd.

I'm sure he was gay, that he rather -- he was rather wary about being nice to me.

I got that feeling.

And I'm sure he had an affair with Fred Astaire.

I mean, he was obsessed by that sort of world of dancing and show biz, wasn't he.

He even tried to talk like him, walk like him, and his clothes were made by the same tailors.

He cloned him.

Anyway, then a bit later on, we were asked to the same party, drinks party at the Waldorf Astoria, and I remember he suddenly started talking German, and Wallis just said, "Oh, David," and walked to the other side of the room.

She was all embarrassed by it.

♪♪ ♪♪ -I'm speaking from the Waldorf Towers Apartment of a promising new author.

An author who received rave reviews on his first book.

That promising new author is His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor, his book, "A King's Story".

-The title, think it's what's colloquially known as a...move.

You chose not to be a king.

Your brother's going to look at that, having done the job for nigh on 15 years now, that you didn't want to do, that you ran away from and dumped in his lap, and then in big print... -The book is called "A King's Story", which is about the most provocative title he could choose to kick his brother with.

But he was determined to make the most out of this, both as an act of vengeance, but I think also to explain to people what he was about.

-Can you tell me, sir, just why you wrote this book?

-Well, there were several reasons that seemed quite compelling.

In the first place, many misconceptions, speculations, and rumors about my life, my reign, and the abdication have been current through the years.

♪♪ -I think a lot of people were very shocked because, you know, but of course it was a huge success.

Well, I think he wanted, perhaps, to put the record straight a bit, to try and show people that he wasn't as spoiled and hopeless as he really was.

I think he realized how shamefully, in a way, he'd behaved, how he'd let everybody down, how he'd only thought of himself.

-Did the Duchess assist you with the preparation of the manuscript?

-Yes, the Duchess helped me a lot.

She read all of the manuscript, or I read it to her, and her suggestions were very valuable.

Indeed she was my severest critic.

-When you hear Edward speak in 1951 the accent is half-American.

You see in Edward, a man who, even in a soft interview like that, his body language is strange.

He's sitting on the edge of the sofa, he can't relax.

I think he knows, on some level, he's lying.

What he wants to say is, "I did it to make money.

I betrayed my family because it was a means of revenge, and also as a financially rewarding means of revenge."

-If you had it all to do over again, would you make the same decision?

-Fortunately, a king is only to make one such decision.

But I have never regretted that decision.

For in my brother, Britain has a fine king, and I have found a happiness in my marriage that I never believed possible.

♪♪ ♪♪ -We know that the King had a fever and was getting some chills, was getting a cough.

He was actually coughing up some blood, a condition called hemoptysis.

And of course there are many causes of that, including infection and inflammatory lung diseases, TB, but also cancer.

♪♪ And he went, correctly, to get those investigated by way of a chest X-ray, which revealed a shadow.

He then went on to have a bronchoscopy, and then some samples taken, and it turned out that it was cancerous and he needed an operation.

-It was announced that His Majesty was to undergo a serious operation.

It was therefore an anxious waiting crowd that besieged Buckingham Palace, and no pictures could show more plainly than these, the love and affection held by our peoples for the head of the family.

♪♪ The Duke of Windsor arrives in London to be near the King who succeeded him in the onerous duties of State.

-This is the original body prop that was used on the set of the crown, which myself and my team operated on, and it was used to depict the operation on the king for his left lung removal.

We were intimately involved in the anatomical aspects and the surgical creation of that operation.

So the patient is on -- has got the left side of the chest up.

And what you can see here is the left lung, and also the heart here, and the important blood vessels are all in that space there, and then you take the whole lung out.

♪♪ So this procedure was performed by a leading thoracic surgeon of his time, Clement Price Thomas.

Now in the '50s, and even to this day, a big open cut like this on the left side of the chest to take an entire lung out would be a major operation.

And associated with that, all the inherent risks and complications that can potentially occur.

Added to that complication, in some ways, was the fact it had to be performed in Buckingham Palace, away from Clement Price Thomas' normal operating environment.

♪♪ Which, as you can imagine, would add an extra layer of stress and intensity to the entire ordeal.

♪♪ -The long, uncertain hours pass, and then comes the news.

The operation is over.

There are many anxious days ahead.

There will be many more bulletins.

But each day there grows stronger the belief that the King's life has been spared to us, and that before long, we shall see his kindly presence moving once again among his people.

♪♪ -We're standing in central London in Covent Garden in the Connaught Rooms, and what would have happened here in September 1951 is that the Duke of Windsor would have given a speech to a very high-profile group of publishers that he would have launched his book, "A King's Story".

He felt, ever since he'd abdicated in 1936, he'd been treated badly, that he'd been cast away, he'd been sent off to the Bahamas, he'd been treated like a second-class citizen.

Fifteen years of wanting revenge meant that coming here, he could have had that revenge, and it becomes one of the most famous speeches that was never given.

Under normal circumstances we would not have a clue what Edward had planned to say, but it just so happens that there is a surviving copy, which never been seen before, in the archives in Balliol College in Oxford.

So what Edward would have said is -- "Yes, I have written a book, and it seems in the eyes of some that in doing so, I have done something very terrible.

If you've got a grudge against anybody, want to do him a bad turn, all you have to do is persuade him to write a book."

You can see that in this speech, he's being explicit about his need to make money.

He says, "I hope that many people will read my book.

I want as many as many as possible to realize there are two sides to every story."

Edward never makes this speech, not because he has an attack of conscience or because he realized this video would be awful if he did, but because very influential people, including Winston Churchill, say to him, "You cannot make this speech with your brother being this desperately ill."

And what they do is they appeal to his inflated sense of self-worth.

They tell him that if he makes the speech, it will rebound badly in his face, that his return to public life will be hindered.

So Edward doesn't make the speech out of self-interest.

He decides, "I will save my own skin."

♪♪ ♪♪ -Well, this is an immensely powerful and famous photograph, and it's -- it's King George VI, just after he's had a lung removed.

He's sitting on a sofa at Buckingham Palace with his grandson, the only grandson that he ever sees, Prince Charles.

And it's Prince Charles' third birthday.

It's actually the only memory which Charles has of his grandfather.

Nobody realized that he was going to die very, very shortly.

It's said that he knew that he was walking with death, and members of the establishment, Churchill and people, knew that he was unwell.

But perhaps no -- people thought the operation to remove the lung had been a success, but of course, they didn't know so much about cancer then as we know now.

♪♪ ♪♪ -This photograph is of George VI at the end of January 1952 when he and the Queen and Princess Margaret went to London Airport to say goodbye to Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, who were heading off for a major tour that -- that King and Queen were originally supposed to make.

♪♪ ♪♪ A week later, he was at Sandringham.

♪♪ At 7:00 in the morning on the 6th of February 1952... ♪♪ ...his valet went in to bring him his customary cup of tea, and he could see that he was motionless on the bed, and he had died in the night of a coronary thrombosis.

♪♪ -Princess Margaret said, you know, "My father died on a wonderful morning."

She said, "And all the geese," because here we get all the geese, you know.

It was a morning," she said, "That my father would have loved."

-[ Geese calling ] -Very touching.

Well, there was terrible sadness, because he'd become King when he really didn't want to become king.

♪♪ -Elizabeth wrote a letter right away to Queen Mary, and she just said, "He was my whole life.

I just am thankful for every minute we had together."

And it was a real love story.

♪♪ -We can blame George's death on all sorts of things.

We can blame it on stress.

We can blame it on smoking.

We can blame it on circumstance.

But in the case of his widow, it was very clear who she blamed it on, and that's the Duke of Windsor.

-By the time George died, Edward had lost any love that he once had for him, and I think that he saw this was the moment now, with George's reign over, that he could return to Britain.

-This voyage [clears throat] upon which I am embarking [clears throat] aboard the Queen Mary tonight is indeed sad, and it is all the sadder for me because I am undertaking it alone.

The Duchess is remaining here to await my return.

I was 41 when I succeeded my father and many considered that young.

But Queen Elizabeth is only 25, how young to assume the responsibilities of a great throne in these precarious times.

♪♪ [ Fog horn blaring ] -Edward comes back to Britain in 1952 for his brother's funeral.

♪♪ And he believed that Princess Elizabeth was a soft touch.

He had the idea, get in with Princess Elizabeth, charm her, everything else would fall into place.

What became very clear was that, although he would be dealt with, with the pleasantries and the respect due to a man who had been king, there was no way back.

♪♪ There's a famous line when Edward said of his mother, his sister-in-law, and his niece, that they had "ice in their veins" and that these women had somehow "connived" against him.

In this new matriarchy, he was very much a man out of time and a man out of place, and he was unable to deal with that.

-His principal enemy was Elizabeth, now the Queen Mother.

While Edward could see that it was perfectly logical for him now to return, both Elizabeths were determined that he should stay away.

He never really cottoned on to the fact that he was never coming home.

♪♪ -The truth is that there was a very adequate heir to the throne in Elizabeth, who was happily married and turns up being fantastically well prepared, understood the New Britain that emerged from the Second World War, understood that the Commonwealth needed to be changed, needed to be more of a partnership of equals.

Didn't have a racist bone in her body.

So it turns out that there was somebody very, very well equipped to take over from George VI, so it was never speculated by anybody senior in the British government or the British establishment that the Duke of Windsor could make a comeback.

♪♪ [ People cheering ] ♪♪ -I was in America, I got a telegram to say, "Come back, the Queen's asked you to be maid of honor."

♪♪ This coronation is something, I think, that could never be repeated.

People were euphoric.

[ Cheering ] You see, it was the beginning, everybody thought, of a new Elizabethan era, new Elizabethan reign, you know.

Everybody was so thrilled and optimistic.

♪♪ We were waiting for the Queen, four of us, and we suddenly hear her coming, a roar of people, and it's raining, which in a way made it more marvelous because around the corner came this amazing golden coach, you know, like a Disney film.

♪♪ It came in front of us, and we got her out, she didn't say anything.

We were behind her with the train flowing over our hands, and there she could, we could just see her back, and then she just suddenly turned around, she said, "Ready, girls," and off we went.

♪♪ She was fabulous, beautiful skin and beautiful eyes, tiny waist and this fantastic dress that had been all embroidered with the symbols of Great Britain and the Commonwealth.

We had the most beautiful young queen, and the Duke of Edinburgh was a sort of Greek god, you know, we were all madly in love with him.

♪♪ -And you were also on the balcony... -Well, well that was fantastic, because everywhere the Queen went, we had to go, attached to her, you know, so lucky.

And of course, the doors open.

I've obviously never been on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

The Queen came out with the Duke of Edinburgh.

As she came out, we dropped the train, and we all stood in a line beside her.

♪♪ It was sort of extraordinary.

And the love and the excitement, physically, the cheering, and the crowds, and the clapping actually hit, you could feel it, most extraordinary.

It was a physical thing.

-Wonderful -- -Well, I feel pretty -- pretty -- Now, I think I may go and have a drink.

[ Laughs ] -Would you like a drink?

-Yes, that would be nice.

♪♪ -This is the most tragic picture you could possibly imagine.

There's the Duke and Duchess of Windsor sitting in apartment in Paris watching the Queen's Coronation.

The double irony of that is that he was sent an invitation to the Coronation, along with a message from Elizabeth telling him not to come.

So he could say that he'd been invited, but he was never going to be allowed to go.

And he sat there in this room watching something that never happened to him, a crown being placed on the head of a sovereign, but not his.

♪♪ ♪♪ -This is a house which was built in 1928, '29 in Paris.

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor came to live here in 1952 until 1986.

♪♪ Now we are on the first floor in the Duke and Duchess' private sitting room, which was mainly used when the Duke and Duchess didn't have any guests.

So this where they would gather in the evening.

♪♪ This is the Duke's bedroom.

There's a small library with a working fireplace.

The Duke's bed would be over there against that wall with a Prince of Wales standard above the bed.

♪♪ ♪♪ -I was a young reporter of the Daily Mail, and I got sent to Paris to cover a smart race meeting at Longshore.

But the moment I got here, I discovered that Prince Charles was in town, and the whole of Fleet Street at that time were desperate to discover if he got a girl.

"Find the prince, find the girlfriend," those were my instructions.

And in a city of 4 million people, and with a deadline of 24 hours, I rang the Duke of Windsor's house, and I said, it's my belief that something historic has occurred here, that Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, has come to meet the former Prince of Wales.

This is a most historic moment.

Now it's complete... because I had no idea whether it's the case or not.

This the last throw of the dice, and a man said, "Come round, and I'll tell you something."

So I got a taxi who took me straight here.

I found the staff quarters.

The King's private secretary sat me down, gave me a cup of tea, and he told me the whole story.

He told me that Charles had wanted to come and see the Duke in an attempt to heal the breach which had gone on since 1936.

He had to do it without the Queen Mother knowing, because she hated the Duke and Duchess so much because, she said, they had killed her husband.

♪♪ The deepest irony about this meeting was that just a few weeks before, Charles had met a woman called Camilla Shand who, in her time, is going to rock the Royal Family as much as Wallis Simpson had done.

A courtier said to him, "Sir, you can have the Crown or you can have the woman, but you can't have both."

Now, that had been said to Edward, but in Charles' case, he managed to do it.

By now, Edward was dying, and what he wanted more than anything else, was to come back to England and be buried at Windsor.

I came here with no expectation.

I got page one on the newspaper next day, nobody else had any information about this historic meeting.

It was a scoop.

♪♪ -Prince Charles came back in 1972 with the Queen and Prince Philip.

-The visit was arranged at the Queen's request.

She spent 37 minutes there, rather longer than planned.

-Her Majesty went upstairs to talk to the Duke shortly before his death.

That was a big effort.

People from the hospital, he'd said, "I don't care if it kills me, but whatever steroid you have, pump me full of them.

I need to get up and bow to my sovereign."

And he did.

-The Duke of Windsor had to receive the Royal Family in his first floor sitting room.

His doctors wouldn't let him take tea with his visitors, so the Duchess took them upstairs afterwards to see him.

-The Queen came just before the Duke died.

It would have been without the approval of her mother, who still pulled the Queen's strings sometimes.

♪♪ ♪♪ Queen Mother wanted him to die in another country.

She never wanted him to come home.

She got her wish, because he died here in this house, just upstairs.

♪♪ He was brought back, and they buried him at Frogmore in the royal burial ground.

-I've been to see the tomb.

It's not very grand.

It's in the garden.

And I think hers just -- I went with Diana Cooper.

Hers just says "Wallis, Duchess of Windsor".

And Diana said, "This is better grave for dogs at [indistinct] than that."

♪♪ -The Story of Edward and George carries on down the decades until today.

The relationship between the two brothers was one of trouble, one of difficulty, and one of conflict.

George proved to be as good a king as Britain could have expected in World War II.

After this unpromising beginning, he found his mettle in adversity.

The problem with Edward is that he had a habit of whether he went to fall in with people who were either Nazis themselves or Nazi sympathizers.

He's widely seen as, if not an actual traitor, somebody who's going to be treacherous given half a chance.

He was somebody who was driven by ego and driven by a desire, put his and Wallis' interests first.

History will judge George VI more kindly.

Edward VIII was possibly the worst king that Britain ever had.

-They're the yin and yang, I think.

George VI and Elizabeth are representing all the good qualities.

You look at Edward and Wallis, and there's a lot of darkness in their life and a lot of superficiality.

-It's a great story.

Think of what Shakespeare would have made out of it.

One of the greatest plays ever written.

♪♪ -It's a sort of fairy story, and because our monarchy has gone on so long, but people are fascinated.

♪♪ -I'm going to be 103 years old.

And yes, you're shaking your head, and I'm also shaking my head because I never thought I'd be that old.

I look back on my life, on the people that I have met.

Thousands, filmed, interviewed, and that is what I think back on, thankfully, to all of those people, including the Duke and the Duchess of Windsor.

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