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[quote=Anonymous]Try this paragraph from the Wiki page on Edward VIII

Many historians have suggested that Hitler was prepared to reinstate Edward as king in the hope of establishing a fascist Britain.[99] It is widely believed that the Duke and Duchess sympathised with fascism before and during the Second World War, and were moved to the Bahamas to minimise their opportunities to act on those feelings. In 1940 he said: "In the past 10 years Germany has totally reorganised the order of its society ... Countries which were unwilling to accept such a reorganisation of society and its concomitant sacrifices should direct their policies accordingly."[100] During the occupation of France, the Duke asked the German forces to place guards at his Paris and Riviera homes; they did so.[101] In December 1940, the Duke gave Fulton Oursler of Liberty magazine an interview at Government House in Nassau. The interview was published on 22 March 1941 and in it the Duke was reported to have said that "Hitler was the right and logical leader of the German people" and that the time was coming for President Franklin D. Roosevelt to mediate a peace settlement. Oursler conveyed the content of the interview to the President in a private meeting at the White House on 23 December 1940.[102] The Duke protested that he had been misquoted and misinterpreted.[103][/quote]

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