Edward VIII's Childhood Was Even More Disturbing Than You Think

The most photographed man of the 1920s wrote love letters in baby talk. He was the Prince of Wales, heir to a quarter of the planet, and he signed himself as a small child begging to be mothered. There is a reason, and it is documented. As an infant, his nurse reportedly pinched him in the corridor so he would scream when presented to his parents, and be taken away within minutes. She kept the job three years. Nobody there noticed. Forty-two years later he gave up a throne for a woman who was trying to leave him. Start there.