King Edward VII

Introduction

Edward Vlll was the King of the British Empire in 1936 until he abdicated after less than a year on the throne. He was connected to the Nazi party and committed treason during World War II that went unpunished and largely unpublished. Edward served in the British army during World War I, while he was the Prince of Wales. He was prohibited from fighting on the front line by Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War.

Edward was told that the concern was not for himself but that the Germans might capture him, which would endanger troops around him and create a wartime crisis. Edward went to the front lines despite the prohibition and got his driver killed by doing so. He witnessed the carnage of the frontlines and wrote that it was a “pathetic and gruesome sight”. Soldiers wrote home reports of seeing Edward in the frontlines which boosted his popularity at home and drove much of the sympathy towards him in later years. According to historians, his frontline service shaped his political goal of peace at any cost, even if that meant befriending the enemy and surrendering his country.

During World War I, Edward also developed an abhorrence for communism and Jewish people after the Bolsheviks murdered his cousins, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The Russian Tsar was both his cousin and his godfather. The murder of the Russian royals allegedly helped shape his right-wing views and embrace of fascism as well as the German Nazi party and Adolf Hitler.

In 1917, Edward met a high-class French courtesan, a “Poule de Luxe”, Marguerite Alibert, also known as Maggie Meller, in Paris, France. Edward was introduced to Alibert by his military friends while on leave. They had an affair that lasted for about 18 months, during the latter part of the First World War. In 1923, Alibert murdered her husband, Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey, an Egyptian diplomat, at the Savoy Hotel in London. She used a .32 calibre semi-automatic Browning pistol to shoot him in the back and head multiple times after an alleged argument.

Alibert blackmailed the Royal Family, threatening to reveal Edward’s love letters to her. The trial judge disallowed any mention of her past as a courtesan, to ensure that the name of Prince Edward was never mentioned as part of the evidence during the trial. At the same time, Fahmy was portrayed as “a monster of Eastern depravity and decadence, whose sexual tastes were indicative of an amoral sadism towards his helpless European wife”. Despite the evidence in the murder being stacked against Alibert, she was quickly acquitted and let go. Some historians say it was thanks to a conspiracy between Buckingham palace and the Establishment, who feared Edward would be exposed as her former lover.

Edward Teaches Elizabeth How To Seig Heil

In 1933 or 1934, Edward and Queen Elizabeth’s mother were filmed teaching a young Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Princess Margaret, how to do a Nazi salute. This was filmed shortly after Hitler’s Nazi party came to power in 1933.

Hitler Plays Matchmaker For Edward

In 1933, Hitler devised a plan to link the English and German royal houses by having Princess Friederike, the 17-year-old granddaughter of the Kaiser, marry Edward.Hitler hoped for a return to the days of Queen Victoria when English royalty married German royalty. Friederike’s parents, both ardent Nazis, declined the plan and stated that the 17-year-old princess was too young to marry Edward who was 23 years her senior. Rebuffed, Hitler then sent multiple German aristocrats, including many blood relatives of the Windsors, to London to collect intelligence on the prince and the rest of the royal family.

The Nazi King Falls In Love With Wallis Simpson

Edward became King Edward VIII of England after the death of his father, George V in January 1936. During the year that he was king, Edward was having an affair with US citizen, Wallis Simpson. Hitler ordered Germany’s UK Ambassador, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to court the new King Edward and Wallis Simpson. Von Ribbentrop was Hitler’s right-hand man and later the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany. He was hung at the end of World War II.

Communications between Berlin, Washington, and London diplomats confirmed that Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wallis Simpson began having an affair. Von Ribbentrop is said to have sent 17 carnations, one for every time they had sex, to Wallis Simpson’s apartment at Bryanston Court in central London. British intelligence was aware at the time that Wallis Simpson was passing classified information from the King to Joachim von Ribbentrop.

MI5 were concerned that Bryanston Court might be harbouring Nazi spies, one of which was Wallis Simpson. Simpson’s neighbour, Austrian Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe was also a Nazi spy linked to Hitler. A frequent visitor of Wallis Simpson and Edward at the apartment of Bryanston Court was Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the UK fascist movement which supported Nazi Germany. Mosley was very influential in UK politics. In 1924, he had come within 100 votes of beating the future Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain for his seat in parliament. In the 1930’s, the US FBI identified Wallis Simpson as a Nazi sympathizer. Duke Carl Alexander of Württemberg confirmed with the FBI that she and Hitler’s right hand man Joachim Von Ribbentrop had been lovers in London.

Edward Helps Hitler Invade Rhineland

When Adolf Hitler occupied the Rhineland in March 1936, he relied on the new king to support him. Edward urged Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to take no action against Germany. Edward threatened to abdicate if Hitler’s advance was stopped and phoned the German ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop to tell him he had done so. His frequent direct communications with the German ambassador were unconstitutional. Edward ruled for less than a year, during which time he alarmed palace officials by installing several advisers with Nazi sympathies. He abdicated on December 11, 1936, allegedly to marry Wallis Simpson over palace objections. UK palace officials stated that their objection to Edward’s marriage stemmed from the fact that Simpson was divorced, a very weak excuse considering Henry the VIII and the proliferation of divorced royals since, including the wives of both Prince Charles and Prince Harry.

Edward Marries Wallis And Helps Nazis Invade France

Edward and Wallis Simpson married in France in June, 1937. The wealthy French industrialist and Nazi collaborator, Charles Bedaux, hosted the couple’s wedding at the Château de Candé, near the city of Tours. The new couple were known as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor after the wedding. They lived in Paris and continued contact with members of the Nazi high command.

Charles Bedaux and Edward would meet at the Paris Ritz and then pass on details of their conversations to Count Julius von Zech-Burkersroda, the German ambassador in The Hague. Edward informed Charles Bedaux that the British had found Hitler’s secret plans for the invasion of France. Charles Bedaux informed the Nazi high command of the development. The Nazi high command subsequently changed its strategy using the information from Edward. They crushed the French army, killing thousands, and leaving British and allied forces exposed and forced to retreat at Dunkirk. Charles Bedaux was later appointed an economic adviser to the Reich and was given responsibility for the liquidation of Jewish businesses in Nazi-occupied France.

According to witnesses Wallis and Edward were openly anti-Semitic and continued sympathy for Hitler during the war. ‘My parents were horrified by their dinner-table talk, where they made it perfectly clear that the world would have been a better place if Jews were exterminated,’ recalled Dr Leinhardt. At one dinner party, Edward told an unnamed English friend: ‘I have never thought Hitler was such a bad chap.’ At another party, he took hold of the hands of a guest, intertwining his fingers in hers to illustrate his view that the Jews had their tentacles around German society, and declared ‘All Hitler tried to do was free the tentacles’.[6]

Edward died at age 78 of throat cancer, in his last two weeks of life he was alone. When he called for Wallis who was in a room nearby she never visited even once according to a nurse.ee port projects have been negatively impacted by the conflict with Rybolovlev. [48]

Citations:

1. Edward VII, George V and Edward VIII: The Complicated Relationship Between the British Kings and Their Heirs. Biography. (2021). Retrieved 3 March 2021, from https://www.biography.com/news/edward-viii-george-v-edward-viii-difficult-relationship.
2. London Jury Acquits Mme. Fahmy of Murder Of Egyptian Husband in the Savoy Hotel (Published 1923). Nytimes.com. (2021). Retrieved 3 March 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/1923/09/16/archives/london-jury-acquits-mme-fahmy-of-murder-of-egyptian-husband-in-the.html
3. Goldsmith, B. (2021). Sex, murder and conspiracy sheds new light on Edward VIII – Book. U.S. Retrieved 3 March 2021, from https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-books-edwardviii-conspiracy-idUKBRE9320GL20130403.
4. Edward VIII’s Murderous Mistress: Was there a cover-up of Edward VIII’s fling with a murderess?. The Telegraph. (2021). Retrieved 3 March 2021, from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9983938/Edward-VIIIs-Murderous-Mistress-Was-there-a-cover-up-of-Edward-VIIIs-fling-with-a-murderess.html.
5. Wallis Simpson: How an American Stole the Heart of a British King | BBC America. BBC America. (2021). Retrieved 3 March 2021, from https://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/02/wallis-simpson-how-an-american-stole-the-heart-of-a-british-king.
6. The documents that revealed Duke of Windsor’s Nazi ties – NZ Herald. NZ Herald. (2021). Retrieved 3 March 2021, from https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/the-documents-that-revealed-duke-of-windsors-nazi-ties/7RTNIFJA55SS6FLQ5B6CSFBPCM/.
7. Gye, H. (2021). Letter from Edward VIII ponders whether he could have stopped WWII. Mail Online. Retrieved 3 March 2021, from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2522559/Unseen-letter-Edward-VIII-ponders-stopped-war-king.html.