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you are
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In the closing days, the second world war a shocking
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find was made by the allies.
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German files were found buried in the forests of Germany and
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recovered these documents
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are very important because the Germans never expected the
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Allies to have them.
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They were supposed to be destroyed at
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the end of the war. They were Communications between
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the foreign Ministry in Berlin and German Secret
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Service agents.
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And it gives us literally a day by day account of
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the Dukes involvement with the Nazi regime.
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The Duke that they're referring to is the former King Edward
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the 8th the Duke of Windsor who been forced to
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abdicate in December 1936.
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The heavy burden of responsibility without the
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help and support of the woman. I love
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It's a choice between remaining king or
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marrying, Mississippi. He can't have both he
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can't have his cake and eat it.
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Wallis Simpson has been presented as the villain of
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the peace what that did was it stopped everyone
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from really examining Edward and looking
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at the man he was and his motives.
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This is not about abdicating the throne.
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This is a man who will stop at nothing to usurp the
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throne Edward. Wanted to come back as a Nazi installed
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leader.
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Here we
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have the cabinet minutes. The
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whole thing was completely downplayed in a classic
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Whitehall cover-up.
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That Twisted ideology of Nazism that appeal
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to it this arm went up like
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that vague sort of salute.
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It wasn't talked about I but
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they're fascinated by what's coming
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to life now.
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This is a rather exciting find from the archives
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the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's life
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after the war signing themselves and Palm Beach
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private and personal film even his
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weaknesses and his character didn't really
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prepare me for the sheer audacity of the
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way he behaved.
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It got to
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imagine this scene October 1937 the
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deuterium Duchess of winds arrive.
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As a station in Berlin, they get off the
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train and the whole station is festooned with Union Jacks.
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And in a way, that's the due to wins this idea of
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Heaven.
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Berlin
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hailed the arrival
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of the warmly
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two hours after arriving the Duke set forth on a
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tour of German Factory.
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dictatorship
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Mussolini Hitler
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They were the flashy ones. They were the interesting ones and they
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were also the ones that trendy people supported.
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boring old monarchs were not
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this would be all over the world photographs of Wallace
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and Edward with Hitler.
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And this would be acutely embarrassing and unacceptable
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when they
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went to the SS death head Camp. It
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was said that the dude Windsor had
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driven a Nazi salute.
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One of the Dukes Defenders said at the time
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it was simply a matter of good manners.
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Parents the Pomp and ceremony of a royal tour and he could
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give that to her.
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The Duke was so susceptible to that
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kind of flattery that he succumbed.
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Germany with parades organized Sports
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modern music blaring out
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of loudspeakers film shows Lenny riefenstall's
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creation of Hitler as a kind of
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film star wowing the masses.
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It's that emphasis on a place which is unsullied by
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troublemakers Jewish people
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Communists, and it was vision would have
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been appealing to him.
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The due to Windsor once said to one of his friends
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in Exile that he didn't have a single drop of English
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blood in him. He was pure German and in the
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thirties people felt
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They had to take sides.
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I'm historian, and I really rely on extensive primary
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research in archives around the world.
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The Duke of Windsor was very strongly pronazi. He
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was a firm supporter of Hitler.
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There's a wealth of material quite apart from the
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captured German documents, which has been sitting there unlocked at
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for the last 50 or 60 years.
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Having the seen so much evidence for his treachery. This was
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a probably one of the most sensitive documents that I
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found in my research and it's an indication of
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just how close the Duke was to Hitler.
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It's written in German. But the translation reads to
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the fuhrer and Heights Chancellor The Duchess
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of Windsor and I would like to thank you sincerely. Our
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trip through Germany has made a great impression on
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us many thanks to you for the wonderful time that
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we had with you at the Uber Salzburg. This
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was my Hitler's Mountain retreat.
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This is just an indication that he was very happy
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to be used by the Germans.
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Edward was the favorite uncle of the present Queen and someone
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that she had been close to before the abdication.
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So these events go right to the heart of the
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Royal Family.
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On June
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3rd the world waited at the gates of
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the heavily guarded Chateau de can for the news at the greatest
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Royal courtship of all time had reached its climax the
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wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
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Do you think of all of the modern fairy tales? It's always
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marrying someone out of the family. Someone throwing off
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the shackles of the oppressive institution and becoming their
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true self.
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The Dukes wedding to Wallace was hosted by
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a wealthy American industrialist called
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Charles beddo in his fairytale Chateau
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shattered corn in the Loire Valley.
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They didn't look into him. They just thought oh here. We are
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a lovely shadow. That will be perfect for wedding. And of course that later
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came to haunt them.
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Trolls better. He was a very dodgy character indeed.
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He was personally Pro Hitler Pro
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German better supplied them as their servants. Well, of
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course the servants were all spies for
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him. They knew everything that was happening at her house.
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He'd expected at his wedding, you know, his brothers and
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various other relations to turn up and none of them did.
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It was agonizing to him that no member of
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his family would be present.
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Wallace had been vilified by the royal family.
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She's American. She divorced Ernest
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Simpson. She stolen a beloved King.
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She had become the most hated woman in the world.
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The day before the wedding the news was broken that
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Wallace wasn't going to be called her Royal
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Highness The Duchess of Windsor.
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And they went on being obsessed by this to his dying
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day.
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The way
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that Duke responds to this shows him up
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to be the self-centered and petulant figure that
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he is.
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I strongly resent and take great exception to
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the article in the magazine life of the 17th of March entitled
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The Queen in which the latter is quoted as referring
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to the duchess as that woman. This remark is
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a direct insult to my wife added to this is The Chronic
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anomaly of my wife not having the same official status
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as myself which is of course a constant gripe of
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the Duke.
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It was a sort of unity of misery.
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And disappointment that was
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the super glue for them as a couple.
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He was needy he was narcissistic. He
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was always attracted to more dominant women.
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I do remember being
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rather intrigued that the reason he'd given
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up the throne for this woman because it
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had to do with sex.
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She was the only person that he knew
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how to get to bed with as it were.
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I think
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he was what we would call bisexual. Somebody wants
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to help me what you don't understand about royal
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family is that they think if they do it with a footman, it doesn't count. The
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Duke's sexuality is very
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hard to pin down.
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You like being sort of humiliated but a lot of men did
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that time as a very English thing.
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It had so much become the two of
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them against the world that they saw everything through
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the lens of how it was affecting both of them
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as a sort of survival.
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He felt like a wounded child. And of course
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the Sinister person who came into
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the playground to pick up the wounded child's. It was
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the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler.
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My stepfather
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was an old friend of the
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Duke of Windsor.
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I never thought that I'd ever be really living
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these days again.
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After the war when I went to Paris, I remember
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the Duke every sentence always started with
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when I was King and I said you crammed an awful lot
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in considering you're any King for about 10 minutes and he
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solves the rest of that morning.
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He wasn't straight. There was something that you couldn't quite trust about
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him.
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See that determination and that tenacity to
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get what he wanted.
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Here in May 19139
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the Duke who had an office in
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Paris made a broadcast.
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In which he said Britain should be
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doing all in its power to come to terms with Nazi Germany
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and not have a war.
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He didn't listen to advice that didn't suit him.
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He was a naive fool. The context
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is so damaging because by me Nike
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39 we were determined to fight Hitler we couldn't appease him.
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Finds proving tonight from Paradise.
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And as I said to you from this historic place.
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I am deeply conscious.
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Of the presence of the great company of the day.
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I speak simply as a soldier of the last war.
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the Supreme Court
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will I feel confident in tell all
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those in power to renew their Endeavors to
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bring about a peaceful self?
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This is extraordinary new
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evidence.
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It was found in the BBC archives laying there
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undiscovered since 1939. It was
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never broadcast. It shouldn't be heard in
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Britain.
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The horrors of the Nazi regime were coming through so word was
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coming back. This was a very vicious and totalitarian
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regime and not someone that we could make peace with
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The title is Edward his Royal Highness Duke
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of Windsor sound archive.
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And then at the bottom it says important not
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to be broadcast.
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The Duke is asking the British to surrender to
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Hitler before the war is even started.
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The BBC were Furious because they
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felt that the impartiality of
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the BBC would be infringed and they felt that the
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Nazis were using due to Windsor for their
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own propaganda.
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Which they were of course.
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Liberty quite new what was going to happen in May but certainly
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by later in 1939. It was fairly obvious what was
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going to happen?
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This country
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is at war with Germany
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the first
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Christmas broadcast the Jordan six seven
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made an enormous impression not only
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in Britain, but throughout the world.
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I said to the man.
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Who stood at the gate?
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of the year
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Forgive me a light.
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That I may tread safely.
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into the unknown
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after Edward had abdicated his brother.
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George didn't really want to become king.
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The second world war came and the true qualities
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of Georgia 6th and Queen Elizabeth's to be
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shown that they had courage they were prepared to live or Steely
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they lived on ordinary rations
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like everybody else.
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And the little princesses Margaret Rose
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and Princess Elizabeth. We're all doing their bit.
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Very very different from the way that the Newton Duchess of Windsor have
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been living.
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His Affinity
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was with Germany, but I think it was a compromise
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there. They were exiled unfulfilled
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for his popularity for his
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sense of self. He definitely wanted a position.
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He wanted a sense of purpose. He wanted a
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role within his family.
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After war was declared in an apparent change
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of heart the Duke of Windsor wrote to his brother from Paris
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insisting that he too should
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be seen to be playing his part in the British war effort.
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He's given a job as laser officer to the French first
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Army which requires him to go and inspect the
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French defenses.
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He's actually got an intelligence officer with him to keep an eye
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on him.
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And the living symbol of Franco British Corporation is Major General
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Duke of Windsor greeted by a snowstorm and he
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comes up to the front line. His job is to ensure continuous contact
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between the high commands of Britain and France.
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I think it's all about upstaging his
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brother.
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And to show that he can play a part in world events that
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he can make a difference.
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He insists on climbing out to an advanced position to meet
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the officers and men who are on guard by day and by
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night.
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He writes four reports looking at the poor generalship
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the poor morale the fact that they are not actually as
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effective as perhaps the friend should be arguing.
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The problem is that these reports are not
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taken seriously in Whitehall.
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Nobody wanted to hear anything from Edward. He was just dismissed as
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being a sort of irrelevant vein and
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untrustworthy source.
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His brother refused to lift up the phone when he ran.
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Here is a former King that is exile from
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Britain.
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There was so much hurt rage misunderstanding that
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went into a lot of why and
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how he behaved.
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He was utterly selfish.
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Edward seems to have thought that after he abdicated
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he would still be a leading figure in British public
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life.
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Britain didn't seem to have any sense of his importance.
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I do
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remember thinking at the time that poor little twelve of
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an X. King was being, you know
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pulled by the nose for whatever reason by fascists.
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As a lot of the documents might suggest the Duke
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was terrifyingly open to Germany and
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what he felt the Germans could offer him.
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The captured German documents are clearly one of the most important sources
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and it's not just the odd telegram. This
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collection is riddled with references to
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his hope of being restored to
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the throne by the Germans.
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Through personal relationships. I might have the
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opportunity to establish certain lines leading to
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the Duke of Windsor.
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As of course, you know W is a member of the French military Mission
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with the French army command. He does
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not however feel entirely satisfied with
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this position.
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January 1940 is a pretty sensitive point
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of the war. The Germans are poised to
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invade France and the low countries and the only thing that
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they really lack is intelligence. And this
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is what the Duke is about to bring them.
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The due to Windsor went back to really just being a socialite
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in Paris and gave up any thought of being a soldier and his
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careless talk undoubtedly later
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on didcross lives.
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He was trying to impress other people that he
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knew about power.
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So anybody German English who
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is going to make him feel powerful and important? He succumbed
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to that?
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There is an intermediary who was feeding information to
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the Germans who was part of the Duke of Windsor's Entourage.
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And this is almost certainly Charles beddo.
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This is the mind of course who lent them his shadow for their wedding. He's
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seen them almost every night and he's moving between Paris
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and the Hague where he has his business interests.
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Situation is we have a disgruntled Duke who
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doesn't feel he's being taken seriously in Whitehall.
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Who is in close contact with
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the German agent Charles beddo who is
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believed to be passing information to that agent who in
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turn is passing it back to the German
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ambassador in The Hague who was passing it on to Berlin.
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blah blah blah everything all
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Teleports letters everything went back to the houses.
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He knew that when he boasted about
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his knowledge about the inadequacy of French fortifications
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that this would go back to Germany.
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Edwards motivation was a sense of rejection
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from England. I think he never really got over
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that.
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The due to Windsor wasn't merely
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weakening France and the French army.
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There was the British expeditionary Force which was basically the
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entire British Army.
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The tragedy
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of France became complete the German Army poured
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across the same bridge and into Paris.
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when the attack comes
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Is the very weak spots that the Duke
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has identified?
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Which the Germans actually attack?
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Overhead the array up valiantly battle the cream of the
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Nazi. Look forward the man on the beach and the books in
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the harbor were literally sitting ducks for any dive bomber that got
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through.
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Can draw direct correlation between the Betrayal
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of this information and the
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rapid Invasion of France and the low countries the defeat
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of the British expeditionary force and its forced
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Retreat to Dunkirk.
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A thousand men many of them have caused never came home
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because they were killed.
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They included many different nationalities costume Empire.
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They're not conscripted. They come voluntarily if
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they had known a member of the Royal Family.
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Had helped Supply information that led
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to that route to Dunkirk to that evacuation. It
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would have been utterly Goulding.
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We shall fight on the beaches special fight
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on the landing grounds.
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We shall fight in the fields and in the
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streets, which will fight in the Hills.
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Which will never surrender.
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Church was getting absolutely fed up situation is getting extremely dangerous
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the Duke of course still holds a military
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rank. And this is the device The Churchill
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is going to use
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Your Royal Highness has
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taken active military rank and refusal to obey
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direct orders of competent. Military Authority would create
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a serious situation. I most strongly
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urge immediate compliance with wishes of
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the government.
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now this is
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prime minister threatening
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former king with a court-martial
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it's a very serious offense. It's Unique in British history
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that a sovereign has been threatened with court-martial
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little does
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Churchill know that this is actually not the
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beginning of the end, but there's going to be much more
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trouble in storm.
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here
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It was
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absolute Terror the Blitz and the bombardment the
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British cities rationing it come
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in people were hungry people were terrified out of their wits
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and they had to keep doing in very very Rim circumstances
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not so
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that you can touch the Windsor.
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It was clear that safe passage had been arranged by Hitler
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by the Third Reich.
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They swand off in luxury.
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from France down into the Iberian Peninsula
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through Spain into Portugal
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All the news was the third right this
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terrifying death child was taking over
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the world and meanwhile just outside Lisbon
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The deuteron Duchess of winds. They were living it up.
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They were having their nails polished and
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varnished they were going to expensive restaurants. They
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were playing golf.
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They were talking to their idiotic friends.
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I know that the Optics look off
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the Duke and Duchess of Windsor sunbathing.
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Obviously, it's a deeply unedifying picture it
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looked like he abandoned his country.
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I'm a Portuguese journalist. I want to go deeper
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and find out what actually happened.
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We all knew what these rumors about
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the Duke of Windsor and his sympathies to
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Hitler and Germany, but nobody
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really established the facts.
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Of what's really was going on?
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I've been spending a few hours at Portuguese national
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archives, which is amazing secret police
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reports.
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10 pages detailing day by day
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almost by the hour what the Duke and The Duchess
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did during their stay here in keshkai and
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Lisbon.
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Streets are full of spies and from both
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camps is probably the only European Capital
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where both allies and
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Nazis could watch each
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other and spy on each other.
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Here we have this incredible documents.
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It's a very detailed day-to-day almost
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by the hour details all the
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movements from the Duke and Duchess.
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They're staying in kashkayas in Lisbon as I can see inside a
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lot of golf.
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They also spent lots of
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time by the swimming pool or having a
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nice cleaners or in kashkash with
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friends like the baron Rothschild. So some
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of the most notable families from the
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purchase aristocracy.
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The 10th of July the report reads.
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The Duke left by 11 am with the
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Spanish don't have year.
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To Lisbon by lunchtime. They went
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to center of Lisbon.
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where they both bought cigars
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you learned that he travels to Lisbon with his
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Spanish friends who are of course working on
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the behalf of Nazi Germany and they
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visit the embassies and discuss what to
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do.
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The two coffins are and The Duchess were
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taken to this man in Cascade.
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The host for this very glamorous and well-connected and
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sophisticated person Ricardo Spirit
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de Santo.
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Then occupied the suite of rooms on the first
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floor overlooking the Atlantic they had
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at least 12 servants including a
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chef who we know was rather annoyed
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by the Duke of Windsor saying I
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don't want any of your elaborate menus. Just give
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me sardines.
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During my trips to the National Archives. I found out the true
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connections between the spirit of
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Central and nutsy, Germany.
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He became president of these small family bank
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that was founded in 1920, but during
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the war the banquish period Central just became
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the biggest bank in the country.
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Their intelligence reports in Britain compiled on him.
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He was a fence for looted goods. And in fact
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acted as Banker to the Nazis.
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His job is to write reports on the
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Duke of Windsor.
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Edward wanted to come back as a Nazi installed leader.
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Is clear that his pro-nazi sentiments continue to
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be as strong as ever?
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They're treated as VIP guests and effect.
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They arrange with the Germans for a member of staff to be
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given safe passage back to Paris to repatriate Wallace's
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swimsuit Nile green
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swimsuit in an operation called operation Cleopatra
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wind their only
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focus is on their own personal needs.
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This is one of the documents from Lisbon the Germans
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never expected to be discovered.
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I think it's one of the most shocking documents that I
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found in my research. He characterizes himself as
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a firm supporter of a peaceful arrangement with
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Germany.
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and then this bit
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The Duke definitely believes the continued
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severe bombing would make England ready
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for peace.
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I mean, this is extraordinary here is
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the former King of Great Britain
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saying that if you bomb Britain bomb
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his family bomb his country.
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That that's the best way to bring them
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to to sue for peace. He's quite
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prepared to go to those lengths in order
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to achieve his aims. It's it's
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chilling in Sinister and and
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it's frankly very shocking.
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He was so disloyal to his brother that he
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was calling for the bombing of Britain as a
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way of subjugating them.
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We have evidence of this and indeed Ricardo esperito
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de Santo. The German agent passed
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this information back to the German minister in
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Lisbon who then instruct us
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for instructions from Berlin.
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The Duke had encourage the Germans to bomb
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London and indeed. That's what they do.
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On the 13th of September 1940 must fly
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down the mall and bomb Buckingham
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Palace literally missing
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the king and queen by feet.
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Let's look at it in personal terms. This is the Duke encouraging
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the Germans to subjugate the
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British. This is a man who will stop
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at nothing to usurp the throne. Even if
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it requires the death of his own brother.
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To my mind, that's the most appalling thing. He ever did.
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Actively to say to somebody that you think the cities
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of your own country particularly within the king of that country
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should be bond that the civilians should be
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killed in thousands tens of thousands.
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It feels enormously shocking to read those words was he
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actually saying that the war could
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be one and England would surrender if a
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continued bombing campaign took place a sense that
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vindication
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or come up and would be delivered if the
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whole house of cards would come Crashing Down.
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The Prime Minister Winston Churchill now steps in and
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insists that you take up a role as governor of
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the Bahamas in documents, which I've seen at
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the roll archives the Germans described this
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as a come down.
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The Duke reluctantly accepts, but he
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continues to remain in direct contact with them even after
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taking up the post.
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The Duke indeed on his way to the Bahamas sent a telegram
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in code to Ricardo esperito de
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Santo saying that he was willing to come back if the
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opportunity arose.
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And it relates basically to these captured German documents.
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I have the document here and it shows
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that he very knowingly communicated with German agents
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the minister and Portugal reported The
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Confident. This is Ricardo desperito de
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Santo who is a Nazi agent has just received a
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telegram from the Duke asking him to send
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a communication as soon as action was advisable.
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This document reveals very conclusively that the
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Duke knew exactly what he was doing and frankly was
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a traitor to this country.
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Communications with the enemy during war was against
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the treachery art. He could well have been executed.
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It seems to be in a case of power at any cost.
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if you
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that is a windsor and I are receiving a
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number of American journalists.
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in government house Nassau
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It is a very warm.
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afternoon
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to warm
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the taking pictures
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It's very difficult. If you've Traverse the world as the
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Prince of Wales and then the king and suddenly your governor of
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the farmers. It would have been humiliating for him and
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Wallace could see that.
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It was still a very long road to Victory, but at
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least once America had ended the
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war it was reasonably clear what the
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outcome was doing to be.
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At the end of the war. I think that Edwards just
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didn't give a damn and is in a
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way sticking two fingers to it all.
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I remember
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the party in New York. He got quite drunk.
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And he started singing German songs.
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He was sitting on a sofa. I remember
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but
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father that I was all standing by the window here.
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But he just started singing.
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But she gets all went up like that fake sort
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of salute.
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Seems to be unchanged in his views despite everything that
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happened during the second World War.
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list of his life he was
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effective cold shouldered by the Royal Family
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his brothers and various other relations never sort of talked to him
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about it. They feel sort of embarrassed and uncomfortable. They never
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have that conversation.
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The convincing evidence for the Winds of treachery lies
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and the German foreign Ministry files.
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And political establishment realizes that they cannot suppress
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them.
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And we have the evidence here.
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In the depths of the archives of the House of Commons. I'm
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looking at the Diary of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart
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a journalist this period rumors are circulating
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about the captured German documents. This is 1946 and
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he writes in his diary. It's very revealing.
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They have found some damaging material on the Duke of
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Windsor. There are various Protocols of Nazi conversations
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with him including one at Lisbon during the
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war.
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Now this is the famous document of the 11th of
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July 1940 where the Duke tells the
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Nazis that the best way to subjugate Britain is
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to bomb it.
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The Duke
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and Duchess of Windsor's life after the war
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remains as extravagant as it was before the
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war.
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Now much of this was supported by Rich friends who
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they sponged off.
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There's been an attempt over the previous nine years to suppress minimize
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delay, the publication of
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these captured German documents. And finally the
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moment has come when they are going to be published.
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The Duke didn't feel that he'd done anything wrong.
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What he was arranging with his lawyers was
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a statement to be put out to suggest that
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these documents are invented by the Germans. I
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mean why they should possibly want to do that given that
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they didn't expect them to be found.
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Churchill now
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prime minister again goes ahead and we have the cabinet minutes
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from the 8th of December 1954 where
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they discuss the publication of this file.
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Mattress tree watched at each stage cabinet secretary
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distribute responsible for warning ministers particularly
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important to warn the stationary
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office when the
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material is published. There is a note with
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it playing down the role the Duke of Windsor.
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The Duke was subjected to heavy pressure from many quarters
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to stay in Europe where the Germans hoped that
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he would exert influence against the policy of his Majesty's government.
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His Royal Highness never wavered in his loyalty to the
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British calls. The German records are necessarily
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A much tainted source.
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To pretend that the Germans were trying to trick him
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and he didn't realize is is frankly ridiculous.
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Churchill who had been
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exasperated by the Juke during the war and indeed what it
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is little to do with them as possible after the war.
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Eludes with the Duke and others to basically
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00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:08,800
kill this story.
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How could this incredible wartime leader this moral figure
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have had all this trouble during the war from someone who
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was absolutely of mortal Peril to
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the nation and then decades later. He defends
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him. He pretty much whitewashes him.
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As always Wallace would be blamed in perpetuity.
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There's absolutely no question that Wallace was any sort
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of Nazi sympathizer?
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She became a natural scapegoat.
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Was it to protect the back
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sides of the monarchy in this country? It's
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00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,400
the conspiracy to conceal. That's
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00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:51,100
fascinating.
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This whole episode is completely extinguished
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from the record and this is just another classic
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example of our history being censored.
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There's one last document indeed. Perhaps the most important document. It
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00:48:11,500 --> 00:48:14,600
recounts a lunch the tarald Nicholson
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the MP had with Tommy LaSalle's who was
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the private secretary to Edward to George
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the sixth and indeed to our current Queen.
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He makes I think a very revealing comment.
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He says the man is like the child in
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the fairy story who was given everything in
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the world.
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But they forgot.
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the soul
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I think this really explains the Duke of Windsor. He was
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a man with no in her life. No self-awareness no
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sense of actually the magnitude of
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what he tried to do with the Nazis.
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Mark you as history has it out. He never did
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come back to his country.
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And there it may be lies the whole truth.
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