A lovely study of Edward VIII and his Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, during "the Crisis Week" of December 1936, as contemporaneously published in "Punch" magazine:
A not so subtle message conveyed by the pen of Sir Bernard Partridge, the famous and long serving "Punch" cartoonist - and known supporter of Baldwin (who gave him his knighthood in 1925). Given (in the timeline of the VBCW) the King's decision to "stand and fight" (rather than surrender to ignominious abdication and exile), it can be no surprise that "Punch" was one of the first publications to be proscribed by Oswald Mosley, Edward VIII's new "Prime Minister".....
Notes:
(1). for a full timeline of the "Great Constitutional Crisis", see HERE
(2). for Sir Bernard Partridge's Wiki, see HERE
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