{"id":43983,"date":"2014-05-08T15:50:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/y_post_the_curious_case_of_yorkshire_dr_alexander_cannon_king_edward_vis_ps\/"},"modified":"2014-05-08T15:50:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:50:01","slug":"y_post_the_curious_case_of_yorkshire_dr_alexander_cannon_king_edward_vis_ps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43983","title":{"rendered":"(Y Post) The curious case of Yorkshire Dr Alexander Cannon, King Edward VIII&#39;s Psychic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His new book, The King\u2019s Psychic, examines this and the alleged plot to oust Edward VIII, as well as Dr Cannon\u2019s role in the early part of the Second World War when he began experimenting in telepathy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The file in question was Dr Alexander Cannon\u2019s MI5 file. \u201cMy dad said \u201d\u02dcyou should have a look at this\u2019 because he remembers Dr Cannon him from the 1950s, by which time he\u2019d become something of a showbiz figure of fun&#8230;.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>It piqued his curiosity and over the years he pieced together information about Dr Cannon\u2019s links with Edward VIII. \u201cIt became my little hobby,\u201d\u009d he says.<\/p>\n<p>His research took him to the Church of England archive at Lambeth Palace. \u201cIt was here that I found the contact between Edward VIII and Dr Cannon was used by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, Dr Cosmo Lang, as one of many levers to persuade him to step down.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk\/news\/features\/the-curious-case-of-dr-cannon-1-6603970\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His new book, The King\u2019s Psychic, examines this and the alleged plot to oust Edward VIII, as well as Dr Cannon\u2019s role in the early part of the Second World War when he began experimenting in telepathy&#8230;. The file in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43983\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,40,50,42,67,92,186,199,168,133,155,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-books","category-church-history","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}