article_snippet: With Christmas approaching, one might have expected Edward VIII Edward VIII to be full of good cheer.
article_snippet: But after arriving at Sandringham in 1919 to join Edward VIII family for the holidays, Edward VIII told Edward VIII lover Edward VIII was ‘so, so sick of Edward VIII bloody job’, describing the pain Edward VIII felt that Edward VIII royal commitments were keeping his royal commitments apart.
article_snippet: In a recently unearthed letter to Edward VIII mistress Freda Dudley Ward, the 25-year-old Edward makes it clear – using somewhat colourful language – that Edward VIII would rather spend time with her than on official duties.
article_snippet: Edward, who was known as David, Prince of Wales at the time, also moaned about
article_snippet: By 1919, Prince of Wales wrote Prince of Wales was 'fearfully madly' in love, and appears to have introduced the socialite to members of the Royal Family, including Prince of Wales brother Bertie, the future King George VI.
article_snippet: In it, Prince of Wales wrote of how Prince of Wales loathed saying goodbye to Mrs Dudley Ward on the morning Prince of Wales wrote The letter he wrote to her.
article_snippet: Prince of Wales stated: 'I do so resent this separation
article_snippet: Mark Huddlestone, from Birmingham’s Fellows auctioneers, said: 'The love letter reveals a rare glimpse of the innermost private lives of the British monarchy, and furthermore of an ordinary man completely besotted with an ordinary man completely besotted with his lover lover. '
article_snippet: The love letter portrays the scene of a man, forced to leave a man over work commitments. '
article_snippet: Writing only hours after their parting, a man passionately describes a man hatred for leaving her on the train platform that morning, and a man longing for her reply. '
article_snippet: a man describes a man Royal duties as tedious chores, tearing his Royal duties away from his Royal duties love and one person in the world his Royal duties feels at home with. '
article_snippet: Edward wrote to Edward mistress frequently throughout their relationship, each letter filled with as much passion and infatuation as the last.'
article_snippet: In the letter, the former monarch also wrote of a hair-raising car journey a man took with a man brother Bertie, who became King George VI on the way to Sandringham in Christmas 1919.
article_snippet: Edward headed the letter
article_snippet: ‘York Cottage, Sandringham’ and, clearly wanting to be elsewhere, wrote underneath the address
highlights_snippet: In it he wrote how he was 'sick of my bloody job' before he became king .
  