Was Prince Edward ahead of his time by 60 years?

Like all human beings, Crown Prince Edward had his own share of shortcomings and flaws but in his very visible and highly public standing in life, those shortcomings and flaws were notably magnified.

Yet, like all human beings, Edward did possess some admirable traits I can't help but admire, wondering if the man was perhaps born too early, ahead of his time by 60 years. His conduct, replicated to some degree by today's Prince Harry, was shocking back in 1936, but would be more tolerated, if not amusing today.

FLAWS: I post these here for the benefit of the critics and trolls and Edward and Wallis-haters.

1) Edward possessed above-average intelligence, but was intellectually a lightweight.
2) Had a fondness for married women.
3) Allegedly had a man-crush for Hitler, but this is still highly controversial and debatable. I still think much of this was blown out of proportion because as visitors to pre-WWII Germany, Edward had to present himself in a diplomatic frame. Diplomats have to learn the art of a-kissing for visiting foreign countries and meeting leaders of state. Germany was not yet an enemy of Britain in 1936 and so Edward at least had to be nice publicly to his Nazi hosts.
4) It is certain that Edward harbored racial prejudices for black people, allegedly saying a few nasty things about them. That is related to perhaps another flaw, saying everything that is on your mind.
5) Obviously was a party animal who never overcame his frat boy party predilection. In short, Edward didn't want to grow up.

GOOD POINTS:
1) Americans can find something likeable about Edward because to us, he was so, well, to put it this way, very 'unroyal-like'. He despised fawning and kowtowing and wanted to be appreciated much for who he was as a person, much as Princes William and Harry are like today. He didn't want to put on royal airs as if he were untouchable by a ten-foot invisible barrier around him. His desire to be a normal fun-loving dude worked both for and against his image. Certainly the British lower classes liked that while the royal family and the governing members of the British Parliament didn't. I mean, you and I couldn't simply walk up to him and call him, 'David', but if you were invited into his social circle of close acquaintances and friends, you would be charmed by his sincere casualness and informality.

2) It clear that Edward harbored a sincere sympathy for the plight of the British working classes, caught up in the economic travails of the Great Depression, still ongoing in the mid-30s. But Edward was extremely frustrated at his constitutional legal inability to do much about it, since he was largely a figurehead monarch. All he could really do is sympathize and comfort the British people, which he may have felt guilty about doing, because he knew that's all he could do and it would do very little. Edward was full aware of the limitations of the British monarch and this may have given Edward little incentive to desire sitting on a powerless throne which carried lot of work - useless make-work that only looked useful - with little enjoyment. So in Edward's logic, which seems logical to me, why take on a job with long hours and lots of boring, drudgery with little compense nor enjoyment. Edward would have preferred his father King George IV live forever so he could remain No. 1 prince, which was more fun.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
1) Like so many unfortunate American celebrities, fame and fortune are not always all cut out to be what it's supposed to be. You can keep the fame and I'll have the fortune. It's not all a path to enduring happiness.
2) I'm so glad that I haven't fallen victim to a nearly pathological, obsessive, "love" as Edward suffered. To view what happens to an aristocratic woman who suffers the same condition, watch the excellent, underrated foreign movie, "Mad Joan" (Juana Loca), the early 16th century young queen of Spain who maintained an obsession for her dashingly handsome Flemish duke husband, who proved to be a thorough womanizer. Think of a female Edward who speaks Spanish.
3) Don't play with fire, as Wallis Simpson did. She was caught up in all the glitz, glamour, royal prestige, social circles, fun, parties, travels that Prince Edward offered, the opportunities of a lifetime for any human girl who fantasizes about being with a royal prince. It's possible Wallis was happy to be a groupie mistress girlfriend. But clearly she let herself get way into deep. Finally she couldn't extricate herself from a man who had all the means necessary to make her his. The hunter became the hunted. Wallis unknowingly built her own golden-guilded cage. But I don't doubt that she in turn loved Edward, not as obsessively, though. She stayed with him to death. Prestige meant a lot to Wallis, so any other man besides Edward, even with his human flaws, was going to mean stepping down the social class ladder, something Wallis would never have countenanced.

Thanks all, for your patience in reading my long post.