![]() ![]() Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Entertainment via Valve Valve’s example for how notes can be used in Elden Ring is about as cheeky as you’d expect. Then, press the thumbtack icon in the top right of the Notes app to pin it at a desired position on your screen. To turn it on, simultaneously press the Shift and Tab keys while in-game, then find it along the new taskbar along the bottom of the interface that pops up. ![]() It can store new notes on a per-game basis, and better yet, those notes are synced across PCs that you’re logged into, even when you’re in offline mode. It’s an overlay that can hover on your in-game window (with adjustable opacity), so your to-do list is always within view, if you want. It’s a new Notes app, a simple rich text editor to jot down some notes.īut it’s a little more than just that. The alternative is too grim to contemplate.Most Steam app updates aren’t all that interesting, but Valve’s new beta for the Steam client on PC added a feature that I can’t stop swooning over. If he has the sense and intelligence he is supposed to, he will remember their fateful meeting over half a century ago, and remember the right lessons from it. Should the new king think of his disgraced great-uncle on 6 May, it should be as a cautionary warning from history and a vivid example of how not to behave as a monarch. Yet the parallels between them are far more than mere coincidence of birth. It is too strong to describe Charles III and Edward VIII as true kindred spirits. The difference, in our changing society, is that Charles was allowed to marry Camilla and will ascend the throne with her as Queen Consort Edward spent his life frustrated that Wallis never received the HRH title that he coveted for her. While Wallis’s husband Ernest was as acquiescent in being cuckolded as Camilla’s first husband Andrew Parker Bowles, the relationship between the Prince of Wales and Camilla was one that echoed that of Edward and Wallis: an adulterous affair between a member of the Royal Family and someone from a ‘lesser’ background who was felt to be unacceptable as royal wife material. Although the skilful public relations job that has been done on making Queen Camilla not just acceptable but beloved by the British public is a triumph, Charles’s relationship with her before, during and after his marriage to Princess Diana was the most scandalous royal affair since that of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. He wrote in a diary entry of “the most dreadful American guests I have ever seen,” and observed “The whole thing seemed so tragic-the existence, the people and the atmosphere-that I was relieved to escape it after 45 minutes.”īoth men’s personal lives contain parallels, too. The meeting, which was dramatized in the fourth season of The Crown-with Derek Jacobi playing Edward to Josh O’Connor’s Prince Charles-was not, in the Prince’s recollection, especially auspicious. It was a meeting brokered by Lord ‘Dickie’ Mountbatten, Charles’s great-uncle, who was closer to the Duke of Windsor than the Royal Family were. Yet it was not out of mere curiosity that the then-Prince of Wales visited the disgraced Duke of Windsor at his Parisian home on October 4 1970, when Charles was 21 and Edward was 76. ![]() Nobody has ever described King Charles as a fascist or a dangerous threat to international security. The full revelation of his Nazi sympathies, which had simmered during his time as Prince of Wales and monarch, proved them correct. Most politicians and courtiers -and even Cosmo Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury -believed that his abdication in December 1936 was a blessing, saving the country from a feckless, even dangerous king. His great-uncle, meanwhile, was a man of near-unfathomable selfishness, whose primary interests were his mistress-turned-wife Wallis Simpson, acquiring money to spend on Wallis and complaining bitterly to his family about his perceived wrongs. Charles is a man who is committed to philanthropy (not least through his Prince’s Trust initiative), ecological research, and social outreach: not for nothing did his 2022’s King’s Speech concentrate on deprivation and the need for community. ![]() There are few obvious similarities between King Charles III and Edward VIII. ![]()
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