The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in conversation with Kenneth Harris

The programme had two sections; the first section was a conversation between Harris, Edward and Wallis with the second an interview with Edward by Harris. Edward said that prior to his reign he had planned to visit economically depressed areas of Britain, especially Wales and Northumberland. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin called Edward to the House of Commons to talk to him about the visits and had asked him "Why are you... going up there? Aren't there a lot of other important things to do?" to which Edward replied that "No. Mr. Baldwin, I think it is very important to see how we can't give this people... unemployment. Some of them have been out for 10 years". Edward felt that Baldwin "suddenly became conscious that he and his Government had actually done very little to alleviate the plight of the unemployed" and after telling Baldwin that the trip had been organised by Sir Alexander Leith, Baldwin gave his approval. Edward became worried that Baldwin was "...beginning to drag me into politics a little too far" and that "...as we all know, politics is the one thing that the Royal Family has to avoid, however much they might like to express their opinion". Edward felt that "young people today" behaved "extremely well" with Wallis feeling that they were "much more independent mentally" than in her youth. ==Reception==

David Wilsworth, writing for The Times, felt that "The tone of the programme was serious, but relaxed with occasional touches of humour". Writing in The Independent in March 2021, Alice Hutton felt that the interview "paints them as two tragic figures from a bygone era, recycling anecdotes from more than 30 years ago" and that one of Edward's modernisations was to wear bowler hats instead of top hats. Hutton felt that "What is striking... is just how boring the sit down is" and noted that Wallis was "asked an extraordinary succession of questions about whether women, in 1970, were destroying their sex if they wanted to work". Harris asked Wallis if she "[didn't] think that women have suffered somewhat over the last 30 years by being too competitive with men, that they've lost something of their essential character and charm?" to which she replied that "No I don't think so really. I know a great many women in business and I don't think they have at all". ==References==