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Duke of Windsor - Traitor

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Franbern Tue 16-Aug-22 09:39:45

Did anyone else on here happen to watch this on Channel 4.? It used some amazing hidden documents from the Nazi regime showing how he actively collaberated with that to get Britain to surrender during WW11.

In my political education I had always vaguely known that he had been a sympathiser of the Moselyites in Britain before his abdication, and that his wife was very much a nazi supporter, but had not realised the extent of his involvement with Hitler and co. and his assistance to them with their invasion of France.

Glorianny Sat 27-Aug-22 16:39:15

Funny how perceptions of the D of Windsor have changed over the years. He was seen as the "playboy prince" (I've danced with a man who danced with a girl who danced with the Prince of Wales), then he did get involved with traveling to communities suffering in the Great Depression and it was thought he was developing socialist tendencies. One of the things that attracted him to Hitler was the idea that he had solved Germany's economic problems. In fact many people supported Hitler up to 1939 and even later. It now seems fashionable to call him a traitor.
He undoubtedly disapproved of war, he had served in WW1. And of course the RF are half German.

Galaxy Sat 27-Aug-22 16:41:20

Perceptions will also have changed with regard to personal relationships. If there is truth with regard to threatening suicide to make someone stay that would be viewed very differently today.

Glorianny Sat 27-Aug-22 16:44:18

Galaxy

Perceptions will also have changed with regard to personal relationships. If there is truth with regard to threatening suicide to make someone stay that would be viewed very differently today.

That's true Charles and Camilla wouldn't have gone the way it has, she would have been kept in the background and he couldn't have married her.

Jaberwok Sat 27-Aug-22 17:04:30

Up till the marriage of George V1th to Scottish Elizabeth B-L, the R.F were 100% German. From George 1st to George V1th, they married Germans, the only exception was Edward V11th who married Princess Alexandra of Denmark but even she was born of German parents, her father, a minor German Prince was invited by the major European powers to succeed his 2nd cousin Frederick 11, as king Christian 1X of Denmark, and her brother was appointed to beome George 1st of Greece. Now of course, without exception, the RF have married well away from their former German roots.