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I recently saw (on streaming Netflix) the 13 episode series about Edward VII, the son of Queen Victoria. As I recall it’s called Edward the King.I enjoyed it. A little (mostly on-line) reading leads me to believe it is fundamentally historically accurate.Most of the crown heads of Europe were related to Queen Victoria; Edward VII was the uncle of both Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and Tsar Nicholas of Russia. Edward VII had some degree of influence over his nephews and the crown heads of Europe. He was popular, adept diplomatically (he was largely responsible for the Entente Cordiale with France), and was known as the peacemaker of Europe. He died in 1910. The little I know about him makes me wonder if he had lived longer would he have been able to prevent World War I—or broker a quick peace.Thoughts please.
The pot was boiling — forgive the cliche –by the time of the assasination with Ententes, Triple Alliances, national aspirations of subject minorities, potential revolt in Russia, French passion for revanche, militarism, colonial rivalries . At best Edward VII might have influenced a delay.How about if TR won in 1912? He might have mediated a delay as well, and one may ask would the Germans have sunk our ships had he been President? Look at the wimpster signals the overrated (by dems) WW sent. “America is too proud to fight” and He kept us out of war.”
