Queen Elisabeth The Elder never forgave Edward and his American Trollope, whatever her name was. She didn't think that her husband "affectionately known as Bertie to the British" was strong enough to be King. In a way she was right, he was a stutterer who suffered from social anxiety, he died at age 67. She was also wrong, he wouldn't accept surrender to that "bloody house painter", supported Churchill when the pacifists were ready to depose him and worked the soup kitchens during the London Blitz. If only today's Royals had some of his moral fiber.