shall king edward viii marry mrs simpson? i in fact, he abdicated to do just that. decision to marry the american divorcee wallis simpson mattered, in part, because it changed the head of state, but also because the public were voracious consumers of the royal soap opera. and that public glare has continued. in 1981, prince charles spoke about it. i don't know about diana, but i'm more used to it, i think probably now. knowing for years that the cameras are poking at you from every quarter. and recording every twitch you make, so you can get used to a certain extent, and on those occasions you accept that that's part of it. i think if you don't try to work out in your own mind some kind of method for existing, and surviving this kind of thing, you would go mad i think. each royal has to find their own method, says charles. this current split connects to a disagreement over what method that should be. for harry and meghan, the method was simply to leave. prince harry has revealed that the pressure caused by newspaper reports damaged his mental health. in an interview

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echoes of the abdication crisis in 1936 when king edward viii gave up the throne to marry wallis simpsonan american divorcee, an outsider who felt shunned by the royalfamily. the death of princess diana in 1997 also saw the royals accused of failing to support a young woman they had invited into their gilded cage, seemingly unable to comprehend public anger at her treatment and grief at her loss. now the royal pr department is again firefighting accusations of a brand out of touch with contemporary attitudes and values. it represents notjust a symbol of historic oppression but as we see with harry and meghan, the continued residue of the discrimination and the racism that made british empire. a new yougov poll suggests a generational divide — four times as many 18 to 2a—year—olds thought harry and meghan had been treated unfairly by the royal family compared to the over—65s. it suggests a looming challenge for the monarchy. while harry and meghan praised the queen in their interview, prince charles was portrayed as unsupportive and distant. repairing the reputational damage will require

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edward viii was very into hitler and you'll probably know this kind of history.ue real girls at this school, doing this stuff, and then we've written a thriller on top of it. judi dench, myself, and jim broadbent. >> seth: obviously, you are a very accomplished writer, but you had never written a screenplay before. did you find it daunting did you enjoy that process >> yeah. you were talking to amy poehler. she said, "don't do writing. you know this thing, 'cause you're obviously a wildly experienced writer, but, you know, i come from where you lived a lot of your life -- that sort of sketch thing i came from sketch, then i went into stand-up. i had to learn a whole new different thing. i couldn't do stand up but always -- i broke into pinewood studios when i was 15 and steven spielberg, had wrote -- about 17, 18, so i was trying to do a similar thing he got his career going, bam and mine took 30, 40 years a fine wine approach to careers. because i knew i didn't know how to do story, structure, character. i didn't have a sense of it. so, i wrote with two other wr

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shall king edward viii marry mrs simpson? i in fact, he abdicated to do just that. says charles. this current split connects to a disagreement over what method that should be. for harry and meghan, the method was simply to leave. prince harry has revealed that the pressure caused by newspaper reports damaged his mental health. in an interview with presenter james corden, the princess in an interview with presenter james corden, the prince said his decision to move to the united states was what any husband and father would do. from 1936 to 1981 to 2021, we see the same tension. private versus public. but the idea that everything has to be kept in—house risks looking out of date. this is hillary clinton this week. you know, this young woman was not about to keep her head down. you know, this is 2021. and this is all connected to what the bbc royal correspondent jonny dymond calls the merging of personal and public roles, of tradition. the mix of public accountability, ceaseless media interest, and the need to remain relevant. in that last point from jonny leads us to

going right from henry viii and his many, many marries to the application crisis of edward the eighthurse the divorce between prince charles and princess diana. the reason why i think this is really got to the heart of the clash between this futile institution, which in many ways entrenches class inequality, part of the british on constitution, and also more modern values and progressive values come is because essentially, cannot have an institution which is premised on the superiority of bloodline and have it nobe racist. and ha it not be controlling of women and misogynistic, one of the things that meghan markle set in the interview was that when she married into the family, she would have to hand over her passport, driver's license, a her keys. if anyone of our phrase was a dream interrelationship with have to handle over their passport we would be saying, what are you doing? i think we have to see these features as very, very, very well entrenched within the royal family itself. as for how firm the pport from the monarchy is and at this country, support for the abolition of the mo