Showing posts with label Duke of Windsor. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 01, 2024

Interview mit dem Herzog von Windsor (König Edward VIII.) 1966 auf Deutsch

Jul 22, 2024 | König Eduard VIII. (englisch Edward VIII) von England umgibt immer noch das Geheimnis seiner Abdankung. Hier gibt er 1966 ein Interview auf Deutsch.

Der gebürtige Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, genannt David, (* 23. Juni 1894 in der White Lodge in London; † 28. Mai 1972 in Paris) war von 1910 bis 1936 Prince of Wales, vom Januar 1936 bis zu seiner Abdankung im Dezember desselben Jahres König des Vereinigten Königreichs und Kaiser von Indien und ab März 1937 Duke of Windsor.

Eduard war nach seinem Großvater Eduard VII. und seinem Vater Georg V. der dritte britische Monarch aus dem Hause Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, seit 1917 in Haus Windsor umbenannt.


Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Nazi Sympathiser and Former King the Duke of Windsor 'Wanted England to Be Bombed', International Archives Reveal

The Duke of Windsor was forced to abdicate in 1936
THE INDEPENDENT: The Duke of Windsor, who is widely regarded as a Nazi sympathiser, once argued that bombing England could bring peace by ending WWII, it has emerged.

Correspondence kept in the Royal Archives between the British royal family and their German relatives in the run up to WWII remains confidential.

However, information pieced together from open archives across 30 countries, including Germany, Spain and Russia, has revealed the close relationship some members of the European aristocracy had with the Nazis.

Dr Karina Urbach, senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advance Study at the University of London, has uncovered how the Duke of Windsor told Don Javier Bermejillo, his old friend and Spanish diplomat, that the British royal blamed “the Jews, the Reds and the Foreign Office for the war”. » | Kashmira Gander | Monday, June 08, 2015