I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help of the woman I love.

This was a very heavy burden to carry around for all these years. She's unloading it, getting rid of it. She's saying, 'This is who I am, this is how it affected me.' She's trying to move beyond it.

I was shocked and angry with the startling suggestion that I should send from my land, my realm, the woman I intended to marry.

Love without conversation is impossible.

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.