Sentiment Entangled: I Remember Noblesse Oblige (French Edition)

The public history I was familiar with was that of Edward VIII, who was forced to abdicate in order to marry Wallis Simpson. The post-Victorian morality was different from today's. As a young man, I was fascinated by conspiracy theories. Nowadays, the internet is teeming with conspiracy theories. A simple Google search combining any word with "conspiracy" will give you an idea.

In the years preceding the internet, my English professors had introduced me to long-standing theories that Shakespeare was Voltaire, or vice versa. At the Empress Hotel, where I had the pleasure of meeting the Queen in 1971, friends were discussing over pints the "facts" about the United States not actually having landed a man on the moon.

My mother's oral history prompted me to wonder whether Wallis Simpson's marriage was merely British propaganda to conceal King Edward VIII's overly warm relationship with the Nazis, his misogynistic views on women, and perhaps even murder. Remember that the women's suffrage movement in the UK did not obtain the vote on the same terms as men until 1928.

During World War II, Bletchley Park, a manor in Buckinghamshire, England, housed the British government's "Code and Cypher School," where codebreakers built the world's first computer and deciphered the Enigma codes used by Nazi Germany. Interestingly, we encounter for the first time in "I Remember Noblesse Oblige" characters discussing the use of computers even before the first one was built. Computer technology is a recurring theme throughout this manuscript, most of which was written before the birth of the internet.

Initially, the manuscripts appear to rewrite the past and reveal that the stories his mother had told him were false. At first, Eugène Christian Evans was shattered by this. But as he familiarized himself with these writings, he realized that the early entries in his journal, which he was examining, coincided with the period when his mother Patrizia was suffering from Alzheimer's and experiencing memory lapses.

Approximately a month before the "confinement," as the French call the Lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic, the trustee had sent 140 kilograms, or 70 English pounds, of manuscripts. Although this oral history takes place in the 20th century after 1930, some parts of the manuscripts remind the reader of Charles Dickens or Charlotte Brontë.

As for the royal family, scandals are nothing new, are they? Sexual escapades, extramarital indiscretions, marriages... All these stories are commonplace in the British royal court, aren't they? Before examining these questions in the work "I Remember Noblesse Oblige," translated from the English "Tangled Feeling," let me say that my mother has always been a brilliant storyteller.

From time to time, she would recount to her guests, or to her transcriptionist, anecdotes from her youth in the sphere of influence during the Prince of Wales' era. Dame Patrizia had a photographic memory for conversation. The former Prince of Wales, around 1933-1936, referred to my mother as "Dame Patrizia" and "viscountess." My mother told me, and also wrote in her manuscript, that the "prince" in question called the current Prince Charles "Chatsworth."

Regarding the question of whether King Edward VIII used hypnosis to rape and murder women, and whether this prose writing is informative, oral, historical, or factual rather than fictional, honestly, as a journalist, I cannot decide. Scandals concerning the royal family are not new, are they?

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