article_snippet: A vitriolic letter written by the future King Edward VIII in which he branded the French Canadians '
article_snippet: The future King Edward VIII scoffed at the French Canadians during The future King Edward VIII royal tour (pictured here)
article_snippet: Stinging: In the letters, Edward describes the French Canadians as 'mostly a rotten priest-ridden community' In the private letter he penned on a visit to Quebec, Edward says: ''the French CanadiansCanadiansThe whole thing is a very delicate, imperial and political question which I don't attempt to understand though I do know the French Canadians are mostly a rotten priest-ridden community, who are the completest passengers and who won't do the French Canadians bit in anything and of course the war!!'
article_snippet: After catching a train for Toronto Edward wrote of how Edward was relieved to be leaving the French CanadiansCanadians.
highlights_snippet: Future King Edward VIII called French Canadians 'rotten' in private letter .
  