What might Meghan and Harry have learnt from Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson?

In this podcast, The Critic’s political editor, Graham Stewart, talks to Alexander Larman, author of The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication, about how Edward VIII was manoeuvred off the throne, whether Wallis really was as bad as she has been painted, and how the House of Windsor adapts and endures.

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Music: “Modern Jazz Samba” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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