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I never thought about the Simpson Affair from this angle but you probably are on the money here. Had Edward been popular/liked by The Powers That Be then her past would not had been a problem.

I thought the Kennedy family fortune was built on smuggling booze during the prohibition - another misconception I must had picked up on the way?

@sillygoose - thanks. I remember reading on some board at some time that sending Joe Kennedy to London had been a big mistake due to his Anglofobia. Seems a boy should not trust neither his memory nor board postings :)

Wasn't he some sort of rabidly anti-British nutter?