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How Britian covered up the friendship between Hitler & Edward VIII

By Andrew Morton

Then they came across a file that stopped them in their tracks. It concerned the ex-king of England, now the Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated his throne in 1936 so that he could marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson.
That decision rocked the monarchy. Now it was feared that these latest revelations, documents revealing his relationship with Hitler, the secret plot to make him a puppet king after the Nazis had invaded England and his defeatist comments about the necessity for the Germans to bomb Britain into submission, could blow the monarchy sky high.

The Duke of Windsor, fourth from left, and the Duchess of Windsor, third from left, visit German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, fifth from left, at his home in Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps, Germany.Photo: AP

What most people did not realize is that Hitler had spent years courting Edward.
His wooing began soon after he became German chancellor in 1933. He encouraged Princess Friederike, the teenage daughter of German nobility, to romance the bachelor prince. Hitler hoped for a return to the days of Queen Victoria, when English royalty only married German royalty.
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