告别演说 Farewell Address（1/1）

爱德华八世 / Edward VIII

爱德华八世（1894—1972），英王乔治五世之长子，1936年初，其父身亡后继承王位，不久为了和美国平民女子沃丽丝结婚而让位于其弟乔治六世。1937年，乔治六世继位，封爱德华八世为温莎公爵。

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Listen to the follog passage ice, and fillthe bnks with appropriate words.

1.I have ade this, the ost ______________ of y life, only upon the sgle thought of what would,the end, be ______________.

2.And now, we all have a new Kg, I wish hi and you, his people,?__________________ with all y heart.God bless you all! God save the Kg!

At long st I a able to say a few words of y own.I have never wao withhold anythg, but until now it has not been nstitutionally possible forto speak.

A few ho I discharged y st duty as Kg and Eperor, and now that I have been sueeded by y brother, the Duke of York, y first words t be to decre y allegiao hi.This I do with all y heart.

You all know the reasons, which have ipelledto rehro I want you to uand thatakg up y d I did not fet the untry or the epire, which, as Prce of Wales and tely as Kg, I have for enty-five years tried to serve.

But you t believewhen I tell you that I have found it ipossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge y duties as Kg as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woan I love.

And I want you to know that the decision I have ade been e and e alohis was a thg I had to judge entirely for yself.The other person ost nearly ned has tried up to the st to persuadeto take a different urse.

I have ade this, the ost serio decision of y life, only upon the sgle thought of what would,the end, be best for all.

This decision has been ade less difficult toby the sure knowledge that y brother, with his long tragthe public affairs of this untry and with his fe qualities, will be able to take y pce forthwith without terruption or jury to the life and progress of the epire.And he has ochless blessg, enjoyed by so any of you, and not bestowed on —a happy ho with his wife and children.

Durg these hard days I have been forted by her ajesty y other and y faily.The isters of theandparticur, Mr.Bald, the Pri Mister, have always treatedwith full ion.There has never been any nstitutional difference beeenand the, and beeenand Parliant.Bredthe nstitutional tradition by y father, I should never have allowed any such issue to arise.

Ever sce I rce of Wales, and ter on when I oupied the throne.I have beeed with the greatestkdness by all csses of the people wherever I have lived or jhout the epire.For that I a very grateful.

I now quit altogether public affairs and I y down y burden.It ay be so ti before I return to y native nd, but I shall always follow the fortunes of the British rad epire with profou and if at any tithe future Ibe found of service to His Majestya private station, I shall not fail.

And now, we all have a new Kg, I wish hi and you, his people, happess and prosperity with all y heart.God bless you all! God save the Kg!