5 Possible Reasons Why Madonna Thinks King Edward
Although the U.K.monarchy doesn't exactly conjure up images of spiked hair, loud music, andstudded leather jackets, Madonna thinks one former king is "very punkrock," according to the Daily Telegraph. When asked why she put Englishpunk band the Sex Pistols's 1977 anarchist anthem "God Save the Queen"on the soundtrack of her new film, "W.E." — a biopic about Wallis Simpson, theAmerican divorcée who captured King Edward VIII's heart — thepop-star-turned-filmed-director explained to the British broadsheet: "Ithought [Edward] was quite rebellious and cutting-edge in his point of viewabout life and about how to run the empire, and using the Sex Pistols was aperfect marriage."
ARTINFOlists five possible reasons why Madonna thinks the notorious abdicator and Nazisympathizer was "punk rock":
1. Hestayed single until 43 and had an affinity for older, married women, withseveral of whom he had affairs before meeting Simpson.
2. He was known to throw raging parties, asdepicted in "The King's Speech."
3. Even though the tradition in Britishcoinage is that each new monarch face the opposite direction from his or herpredecessor, Edward insisted that he face left, as his father, George VI, had,because it showed his better side, specifically the part in his hair.
4. He didn't care that the Church of Englandopposed divorcés' remarriage, proposing to the twice-divorced Simpson in 1936.
5. He caused a stir by opting for love overpower, choosing Simpson over the British throne in December 1936. The couplemarried in 1937.
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