Andrew Lownie on Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson's Nazi Sympathies, Scandals and Tragic Life

Nov 6, 2025 | Andrew Lownie talks about his groundbreaking book Traitor King which tells the shocking true story of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson's Nazi sympathies and how they betrayed the UK during WW2.

Spying on the Royals - Part 2 (2018) | Full Documentary

Oct 25, 2025 | Newly declassified secret files reveal how King George VI himself paid for espionage on his own brother, the former Edward VIII, based on intelligence that Edward was attempting to usurp George VI. And fears of Wallis and Edward’s scheming was so great, that Wallis and Edward were tailed, bugged, and their phone tapped in an operation carried out on the orders of the American president himself.

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Spying on the Royals - Part 1 (2018) | Full Documentary

Oct 24, 2025 | December 1936: King Edward VIII telephoned his brother Bertie to tell him that he could no longer be King if it meant losing the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson. His every word was being scrutinized by intelligence officers. This royal romance can now be seen through a unique new perspective: the eyes of those who spied on Edward VIII, and Wallis Simpson, creating a secret dossier unlike any other.

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A Very Royal Crisis: A Countdown to Abdication | BBC Select

Sep 21, 2023 | The biggest scandal and constitutional crisis ever to engulf the British Royal Family - a forbidden love affair which had a devastating impact.

This BBC Select Original Documentary series recounts the story behind the ten days leading to Edward VIII abdicating his throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson It would change the royals, the press, and British history forever.

Watch A Very Royal Crisis: A Countdown to Abdication on BBC Select in the US here or if in Canada, here.

British Royal Connections to the NSDAP

Mar 17, 2023
In view of the very controversial nature of this extremely interesting documentary, I have decided not to embed it on this blog; rather, I have decided to provide you with a link to the documentary on YouTube instead. This documentary offers a surprising insight into leading characters in the United Kingdom prior to, and during, the Second World War. Click here to watch this fascinating documentary.
How Britain’s Nazi-loving press baron made the case for Hitler: The Daily Mail was once the country’s highest selling newspaper, but owner Lord Rothermere was more concerned with ‘Bolshevik troublemakers’ than an impending genocide »

The Heartbreak behind the Marriage of King Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson | Secret Letters | Timeline

May 3, 2018 | Rewriting the history of one England’s most famous love affairs Wallis Simpson found herself at the centre of a national scandal when she was seen to ensnare Edward VIII and lure him from the throne of England.

But in this explosive film, biographer Anne Sebba sifts through a newly discovered cache of documents - shown in this film for the first time - that contains 15 secret letters written by Wallis Simpson herself around the time of the abdication.

These extraordinary personal missives have the power to rewrite both history and our perception of Wallis. They reveal she was deeply in love with another man, and chart her fear, desperation and loneliness as she found herself becoming trapped into marrying the man who should have been king.


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Duchess Of Windsor, Wallis Simpson: The Queen That Never Was - Prince Harry Documentary

Premiered Dec 2, 2021 • Duchess Of Windsor Wallis Simpson: The Queen That Never Was - Prince Harry Documentary. Drama-documentary about the woman blamed for a royal crisis.

Wallis Simpson's Hard Lessons for Harry and Meghan

BBC: A popular, playful prince falls in love with a strong-willed US divorcee, who ends up vilified by a hostile British press. In Harry and Meghan, some royal watchers see echoes of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, the couple at the heart of the abdication crisis eight decades ago. But does the comparison hold up? It could do if the Duke and Duchess of Sussex end up reliving the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's tormented exile.

In December 1936, The King gave up his throne and an Empire of half a billion souls so he could wed a woman who was divorcing her second husband.

The public vitriol spewed on his bride-to-be, Wallis Simpson, might strike a chord with the latest American to marry into Britain's royal family.

On top of being condemned as a social climber from a Baltimore, Maryland, row-house, Simpson was reviled as a cheap adventuress, a lesbian, a nymphomaniac, a Nazi spy and a hermaphrodite.

She was portrayed as a sexual enchantress who supposedly learned "ancient Chinese skills" in the brothels of Shanghai, where her first husband, a US Navy pilot, had been stationed.

But the media's attacks on Simpson weren't just in print.

Daily Express reporters hurled bricks through the window of her rented Regent's Park, London, home, the newspaper's owner, Lord Beaverbrook, would later acknowledge. » | Jude Sheerin, BBC, Washington | Saturday, February 22, 2020

Edward und George - Zwei Brüder, eine Krone

Die Dokumentation wirft einen Blick auf die Lebensgeschichte des Vaters (George VI.) und Onkels (Edward VIII.) der englischen Königin, die als Kinder sehr verbunden, später nie mehr zueinander fanden:

11. Dezember 1936 - der britische König Edward VIII. (1894-1972) gibt nach nur 327 Tagen seine Abdankung bekannt und stürzt damit die britische Monarchie in eine ihrer größten Krisen. Am nächsten Tag erklärt er in einer Rundfunkansprache, dass er die Verantwortung nicht mehr tragen kann ohne die Unterstützung der Frau an seiner Seite, die er liebt: Wallis Simpson (1896-1986). Seine Beziehung zu der verheirateten und geschiedenen Amerikanerin stellte ihn vor die Wahl zwischen Krone und Liebe. Die königliche Familie verweigerte Wallis Simpson die Anerkennung. Für seinen jüngeren Bruder Prinz Albert beginnt ein unerwarteter Albtraum: Als George VI. (1895-1952) wird er der Nachfolger seines Bruders und damit König wider Willen. Dennoch wurde aus ihm ein beliebter König - auch wenn ihn sein Stottern und die Angst vor öffentlichen Auftritten bis zum Ende seines Lebens quälten.

Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters | Royal Family Documentary | Timeline

Rewriting the history of one England’s most famous love affairs.

Wallis Simpson found herself at the centre of a national scandal when she was seen to ensnare Edward VIII and lure him from the throne of England. But in this explosive film, biographer Anne Sebba sifts through a newly discovered cache of documents - shown in this film for the first time - that contains 15 secret letters written by Wallis Simpson herself around the time ofthe abdication. These extraordinary personal missives have the power to rewrite both history and our perception of Wallis. They reveal she was deeply in love with another man, and chart her fear, desperation and loneliness as she found herself becoming trapped into marrying the man who should have been king.

Wallis Simpson: Myth And Reality – Full Documentary

WIKI: Wallis Simpson »