Comments by "E Dennis" (@edennis8578) on "History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday" channel.

Icyclear Catherine was in her grandmother's care, along with a number of other girls, and her grandmother was negligent at best. Catherine should not be blamed that men were allowed into the girls' dormatory at night; that's all on Grandma.
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@brettlarch8050 Camilla was a married woman when Charles was ready to get married. She wasn't divorced, and she didn't want a divorce at that time.
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I read that Rainier's family were awful to her. So ungrateful. She (her father) had to put out $2million before Rainier would marry her because Monaco was in deep financial trouble. Grace saved the country, but his family was so rude to her.
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I think of teenage Anne of Cleves being sent to England to marry old, sick, nasty Henry VIII. She must have been overjoyed to get out of that situation with her freedom, riches, and an honored (and safe) position in the household.
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@markbenjamin1703 The Nazis were horrific. All one needs to do is examine how they treated people in their occupied territories. There were a few decent German officers in charge who shielded the populace from the worst abuses ordered by Hitler (like in Paris) but firsthand and widespread accounts of slave labor, forced prostitution, etc. should, if you had a brain cell, teach you that your life under the Nazis wouldn't be at all what you envision. You make me ashamed that you and I bear the same natal surname.
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No one marrying into the royal family can inherit the throne. Elizabeth's own mother was Queen Consort. So was her grandfather's wife.
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@wandab3843 Yeah, that's what the Romanoffs thought, and Marie Antoinette. How did that work out for them?
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Well, that was on him. Did you know that he even threatened Jane Seymour with beheading when she asked him to restore the monasteries? Jane Seymour, who he claimed to love always. With love like that, who needs it?
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@wandab3843 Just to add, I don't think you appreciate how difficult it would have been to arrange transatlantic transportation DURING WARTIME. If they were trying to escape, that means they would have to be undercover. Good luck with that in the days when everyone knew what they looked like. When even Marie Antoinette couldn't disguise herself well enough to evade recognition in the 1700s, before photography, how could the rf hope to go unrecognized? How could they arrange transportation? Plane? That's out. Ship? That's out. Any form of transportation would have been blown up. Sunk into the ocean.
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@bonecaboneca4627 If somebody pulled that crap on me, I would lose any sympathy for them. Like Elizabeth Taylor, who threatened to kill herself if Eddie Fisher didn't divorce Debbie Reynolds, her "best friend" with a new baby, and marry her. I'd just turn my back. Both David and Elizabeth were homewreckers with no shame. Narcissists without consciences. Narcissists don't kill themselves unless it's by accident.
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Edward VIII was long dead by then.
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@lila2986 Is that a joke? Edward was destined from birth to be king; it had everything to do with station and nothing to do with money. If he had been dirt poor, it wouldn't have changed his position in the order of succession. What does the King of England need with a diploma? He would be king whether he had one or not.
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Remember that the monarch is the head of the Anglican Church, and as such must follow the tenets of the Church. The rules of the Anglican Church changed since Edward and Wallis's day. When they were married, the Anglican Church didn't recognize divorce; in the eyes of the Church, Wallis was still married to someone else. It would've been bigamy. Since then, the Church has recognized divorce, so it's not a big problem for Charles to marry nor to marry a divorcee.
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Camilla was married to a Catholic at the time. It wouldn't have seemed possible that she would ever be available for marriage to Charles in that case. Even if she got a divorce, the Anglican Church didn't recognize divorce at the time, so he couldn't marry a woman who would've been considered married, even if divorced by law. He tried to move on and marry someone available.
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When half of all women died in childbirth and most people were dead by 35 anyway, people (especially girls) started adulthood early. In England, the average married woman bore six children and only 3 would live to adulthood. The average marriage only lasted 10 years because one or the other spouse would be dead by then. In royal families, even the boys were often married as teens. Prince Arthur was married at 15 and his brother, Henry VIII, was married at 17.
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And yes, I divorced him.
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A lot of people.
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