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In a tearful radio broadcast before his marriage to Wallis, King Edward VIII referred to her as "the woman I love".
In a tearful radio broadcast before his marriage to Wallis, King Edward VIII referred to her as "the woman I love".
It has been widely suspected ever since that Edward VIII was actually a [[Nazi]] sympathiser, and that this was the real reason why he was hounded out of office. Certainly he made a number of widely publicised visits to Nazi Germany after his abdication, and photographs exist of him shaking hands with [[Adolf Hitler]]. There are even reports that the Nazis, if their attempted conquest of Britain had been successful, were planning to restore him to the throne as a puppet. To remove him from Europe, [[Winston Churchill]] appointed him Governor of the [[Bahamas]]. After the war the Duke of Windsor, as he was now known, returned to Paris with his wife and eventually died in 1972, forsaken by all his relatives. Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, survived until 1986.
[[Category:UK Monarchs]]
[[Category:UK Monarchs]]