1 00:00:01,333 --> 00:00:06,366 ♪♪ 2 00:00:06,466 --> 00:00:09,233 [Suspenseful music playing, birds squawk] 3 00:00:09,333 --> 00:00:18,300 ♪♪ 4 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:20,233 -In the closing days of the Second World War, 5 00:00:20,333 --> 00:00:23,800 a shocking find was made by the allies. 6 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:27,666 German files were found buried in the forests of Germany 7 00:00:27,766 --> 00:00:28,766 and recovered. 8 00:00:32,866 --> 00:00:34,400 These documents are very important, 9 00:00:34,500 --> 00:00:36,800 because the Germans never expected the allies 10 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:37,933 to have them. 11 00:00:42,233 --> 00:00:44,000 They were supposed to be destroyed 12 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:45,166 at the end of the war. 13 00:00:46,233 --> 00:00:47,333 They were of communications 14 00:00:47,433 --> 00:00:49,600 between the foreign ministry in Berlin 15 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:51,766 and German secret service agents. 16 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,500 And it gives us literally a day by day account 17 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,700 of the Duke's involvement with the Nazi regime. 18 00:01:05,300 --> 00:01:07,166 The Duke that they were referring to 19 00:01:07,266 --> 00:01:10,166 was the former King Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, 20 00:01:10,266 --> 00:01:13,033 who had been forced to abdicate in December, 1936. 21 00:01:14,166 --> 00:01:16,200 -I have found it impossible 22 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:19,500 to carry the heavy burden of responsibility 23 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:24,233 without the help and support of the woman I love. 24 00:01:26,333 --> 00:01:28,966 -It's a choice between remaining King 25 00:01:29,066 --> 00:01:30,800 or marrying Mrs. Simpson. 26 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:31,933 He can't have both. 27 00:01:32,033 --> 00:01:34,266 He can't have his cake and eat it. 28 00:01:34,366 --> 00:01:36,366 -Wallis Simpson has been presented 29 00:01:36,466 --> 00:01:38,000 as the villain of the piece. 30 00:01:38,100 --> 00:01:40,600 What that did was it stopped everyone 31 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:42,700 from really examining Edward 32 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,333 and looking at the man he was and his motives. 33 00:01:46,433 --> 00:01:49,133 -This is not about abdicating the throne. 34 00:01:49,233 --> 00:01:52,933 This is a man who will stop at nothing to usurp the throne. 35 00:01:53,033 --> 00:01:55,966 Edward wanted to come back as a Nazi-installed leader. 36 00:01:56,066 --> 00:02:05,633 ♪♪ 37 00:02:05,733 --> 00:02:07,266 -We have the cabinet minutes. 38 00:02:07,366 --> 00:02:09,633 The whole thing was completely downplayed 39 00:02:09,733 --> 00:02:13,000 in a classic Whitehall cover-up. 40 00:02:13,100 --> 00:02:17,866 -That twisted ideology of Nazism that appealed to him. 41 00:02:17,966 --> 00:02:21,733 -His arm went up like that, you know, vague sort of salute. 42 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:25,500 -It wasn't talked about. 43 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,466 I'm utterly fascinated by what's coming to light now. 44 00:02:29,566 --> 00:02:38,700 ♪♪ 45 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,233 -This is a rather exciting find from the archives. 46 00:02:42,333 --> 00:02:45,566 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor's life after the war, 47 00:02:45,666 --> 00:02:47,633 sunning themselves in Palm Beach, 48 00:02:47,733 --> 00:02:49,500 private and personal film. 49 00:02:52,233 --> 00:02:54,566 Even his weaknesses in his character 50 00:02:54,666 --> 00:02:56,266 didn't really prepare me 51 00:02:56,366 --> 00:02:59,733 for the sheer audacity of the way he behaved. 52 00:02:59,833 --> 00:03:05,233 ♪♪ 53 00:03:08,266 --> 00:03:15,033 ♪♪ 54 00:03:15,133 --> 00:03:24,366 ♪♪ 55 00:03:24,466 --> 00:03:26,933 [Gleeful chatter] 56 00:03:27,033 --> 00:03:32,133 ♪♪ 57 00:03:32,233 --> 00:03:33,633 -You've got to imagine the scene. 58 00:03:33,733 --> 00:03:35,833 October 1937. 59 00:03:35,933 --> 00:03:40,300 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrive at a station in Berlin. 60 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:41,733 They get off the train, 61 00:03:41,833 --> 00:03:45,433 and the whole station is festooned with Union Jacks. 62 00:03:45,533 --> 00:03:46,666 And in a way, 63 00:03:46,766 --> 00:03:48,500 that's the Duke of Windsor's idea of heaven. 64 00:03:51,633 --> 00:03:53,033 -Big headlines in Berlin, 65 00:03:53,133 --> 00:03:55,900 hail the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 66 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,533 a large crowd greets them warmly. 67 00:03:58,633 --> 00:04:00,066 Two hours after arriving, 68 00:04:00,166 --> 00:04:02,533 the Duke sets forth on a tour of German factories. 69 00:04:02,633 --> 00:04:05,666 [Upbeat music] 70 00:04:07,533 --> 00:04:09,533 -Dictatorship. 71 00:04:09,633 --> 00:04:12,133 Mussolini, Hitler, 72 00:04:12,233 --> 00:04:13,533 they were the flashy ones. 73 00:04:13,633 --> 00:04:15,400 They were the interesting ones, 74 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:18,133 and they were also the ones that trendy people supported. 75 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,200 Boring old monarchs were not. 76 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:27,000 ♪♪ 77 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:29,766 [ Camera shutter clicking ] 78 00:04:32,466 --> 00:04:34,300 -This would be all over the world, 79 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,333 photographs of Wallis and Edward with Hitler. 80 00:04:39,966 --> 00:04:43,166 And this would be acutely embarrassing and unacceptable. 81 00:04:43,266 --> 00:04:46,300 [Suspenseful music] 82 00:04:49,266 --> 00:04:52,600 -When they went to the SS Death Head Camp, 83 00:04:52,700 --> 00:04:55,100 it was said that the Duke of Windsor 84 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:56,833 had given a Nazi salute. 85 00:04:58,066 --> 00:05:00,033 One of the Duke's defenders said at the time 86 00:05:00,133 --> 00:05:01,800 it was simply a matter of good manners. 87 00:05:04,966 --> 00:05:07,033 -He was blinded by the fact 88 00:05:07,133 --> 00:05:10,566 that Wallis had not experienced the pomp and ceremony 89 00:05:10,666 --> 00:05:14,200 of a royal tour, and he could give that to her. 90 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:18,800 The Duke was so susceptible to that kind of flattery, 91 00:05:18,900 --> 00:05:20,600 that he succumbed. 92 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:28,166 ♪♪ 93 00:05:28,266 --> 00:05:32,466 -Germany, with parades, organized sports, 94 00:05:32,566 --> 00:05:35,466 modern music blaring out of loudspeakers, 95 00:05:35,566 --> 00:05:37,066 film shows, 96 00:05:37,166 --> 00:05:39,033 Leni Riefenstahl's creation 97 00:05:39,133 --> 00:05:41,033 of Hitler as a kind of film star, 98 00:05:41,133 --> 00:05:42,733 wowing the masses. 99 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,400 -It's that emphasis on a place 100 00:05:46,500 --> 00:05:49,933 which is unsullied by troublemakers, 101 00:05:50,033 --> 00:05:51,600 Jewish people, communists, 102 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:54,700 and Hitler's vision would have been appealing to him. 103 00:05:55,766 --> 00:05:56,933 -The Duke of Windsor 104 00:05:57,033 --> 00:05:59,333 once said to one of his friends in exile 105 00:05:59,433 --> 00:06:02,233 that he didn't have a single drop of English blood in him, 106 00:06:02,333 --> 00:06:03,600 he was pure German, 107 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:07,400 and in the '30s, people felt... 108 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:09,166 they had to take sides. 109 00:06:13,466 --> 00:06:18,233 ♪♪ 110 00:06:18,333 --> 00:06:19,733 -I am a historian, 111 00:06:19,833 --> 00:06:22,700 and I really rely on extensive primary research 112 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:24,533 in archives around the world. 113 00:06:26,100 --> 00:06:29,300 The Duke of Windsor was very strongly pro-Nazi. 114 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,633 He was a firm supporter of Hitler. 115 00:06:33,566 --> 00:06:35,166 There's a wealth of material, 116 00:06:35,266 --> 00:06:37,733 quite apart from the captured German documents 117 00:06:37,833 --> 00:06:39,566 which has been sitting there unlooked at 118 00:06:39,666 --> 00:06:41,800 for the last 50 or 60 years. 119 00:06:44,233 --> 00:06:47,066 Having seen so much evidence for his treachery, 120 00:06:47,166 --> 00:06:50,033 this was probably one of the most sensitive documents 121 00:06:50,133 --> 00:06:51,633 that I found in my research, 122 00:06:51,733 --> 00:06:55,133 and it's an indication of just how close the Duke was 123 00:06:55,233 --> 00:06:56,166 to Hitler. 124 00:06:56,266 --> 00:07:05,000 ♪♪ 125 00:07:05,100 --> 00:07:06,633 It's written in German, 126 00:07:06,733 --> 00:07:08,666 but the translation reads, 127 00:07:08,766 --> 00:07:11,266 "To the Fuhrer and Vizekanzler, 128 00:07:11,366 --> 00:07:13,600 the Duchess of Windsor and I would like to thank you 129 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:15,000 sincerely. 130 00:07:15,100 --> 00:07:17,066 Our trip through Germany has made a great impression 131 00:07:17,166 --> 00:07:18,300 on us. 132 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:20,400 Many thanks to you for the wonderful time 133 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:23,166 that we had with you at the Obersalzberg." 134 00:07:23,266 --> 00:07:25,200 This was Hitler's mountain retreat. 135 00:07:29,566 --> 00:07:31,000 This is just an indication 136 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:34,700 that he was very happy to be used by the Germans. 137 00:07:38,033 --> 00:07:41,233 Edward was the favorite uncle of the present Queen, 138 00:07:41,333 --> 00:07:45,533 and someone that she had been close to before the abdication. 139 00:07:45,633 --> 00:07:47,866 So these events go right to the heart 140 00:07:47,966 --> 00:07:49,700 of the royal family. 141 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,700 [Accordion music] 142 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:58,566 ♪♪ 143 00:07:58,666 --> 00:08:02,133 ♪♪ 144 00:08:02,233 --> 00:08:03,566 -On June 3rd, 145 00:08:03,666 --> 00:08:05,033 the world waited at the gates 146 00:08:05,133 --> 00:08:07,033 of the heavily guarded Château de Candé 147 00:08:07,133 --> 00:08:08,933 while the news that the greatest royal courtship 148 00:08:09,033 --> 00:08:11,533 of all time had reached its climax, 149 00:08:11,633 --> 00:08:13,933 the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. 150 00:08:16,433 --> 00:08:18,733 -If you think of all of the modern fairy tales, 151 00:08:18,833 --> 00:08:21,266 it's always marrying someone out of the family, 152 00:08:21,366 --> 00:08:23,000 someone throwing off the shackles 153 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:26,333 of the oppressive institution and becoming their true self. 154 00:08:27,833 --> 00:08:29,566 -The Duke's wedding to Wallis 155 00:08:29,666 --> 00:08:33,300 was hosted by a wealthy American industrialist 156 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:34,766 called Charles Bedaux, 157 00:08:34,866 --> 00:08:38,233 in his fairy tale chateau, Château de Candé, 158 00:08:38,333 --> 00:08:39,366 in the Loire Valley. 159 00:08:41,266 --> 00:08:43,100 They didn't look into him, they just thought 160 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:44,833 "Oh, here we are, a lovely chateau, 161 00:08:44,933 --> 00:08:46,200 that would be perfect for the wedding." 162 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:49,266 And of course, that later came to haunt them. 163 00:08:51,733 --> 00:08:55,566 -Charles Bedaux was a very dodgy character indeed. 164 00:08:55,666 --> 00:08:59,000 He was passionately pro Hitler, pro German. 165 00:08:59,100 --> 00:09:01,266 Bedaux supplied them with their servants, 166 00:09:01,366 --> 00:09:05,100 well, of course the servants were all spies for him. 167 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:06,466 They knew everything that was happening 168 00:09:06,566 --> 00:09:08,300 in that house. 169 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:14,433 ♪♪ 170 00:09:14,533 --> 00:09:16,700 -He'd expected at his wedding, you know, 171 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:18,433 his brothers and various other relations 172 00:09:18,533 --> 00:09:20,500 to turn up, and none of them did. 173 00:09:23,066 --> 00:09:24,966 -It was agonizing to him 174 00:09:25,066 --> 00:09:27,866 that no member of his family would be present. 175 00:09:29,433 --> 00:09:33,033 Wallis had been vilified by the royal family, 176 00:09:33,133 --> 00:09:36,266 she's American, she divorced Ernest Simpson. 177 00:09:36,366 --> 00:09:38,866 She'd stolen a beloved King. 178 00:09:38,966 --> 00:09:41,633 She had become the most hated woman in the world. 179 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:44,933 -The day before the wedding, 180 00:09:45,033 --> 00:09:46,300 the news was broken 181 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,500 that Wallis wasn't going to be called Her Royal Highness, 182 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:52,433 The Duchess of Windsor, 183 00:09:52,533 --> 00:09:56,133 and they went on being obsessed by this 'til his dying day. 184 00:09:56,233 --> 00:10:01,566 ♪♪ 185 00:10:01,666 --> 00:10:08,200 ♪♪ 186 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:10,600 -The way the Duke responds to this 187 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:13,033 shows him up to be the self centered 188 00:10:13,133 --> 00:10:15,033 and petulant figure that he is. 189 00:10:15,133 --> 00:10:24,466 ♪♪ 190 00:10:24,566 --> 00:10:27,333 "I strongly resent and take great exception 191 00:10:27,433 --> 00:10:30,000 to the article in the magazine, Life, of the 17th of March, 192 00:10:30,100 --> 00:10:31,533 entitled 'The Queen' 193 00:10:31,633 --> 00:10:33,800 in which the latter is quoted as referring to the duchess 194 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:35,533 as 'that woman'. 195 00:10:35,633 --> 00:10:38,200 This remark is a direct insult to my wife, 196 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:40,233 added to this is the chronic anomaly 197 00:10:40,333 --> 00:10:43,400 of my wife not having the same official status as myself." 198 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:45,700 Which is of course a constant gripe of the Duke." 199 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,033 [ Applause, jazz music plays ] 200 00:10:48,133 --> 00:10:53,333 ♪♪ 201 00:10:53,433 --> 00:10:58,700 -It was a sort of unity of misery 202 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,300 and disappointment 203 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,166 that was the super glue for them as a couple. 204 00:11:05,266 --> 00:11:08,266 -He was needy, he was narcissistic, 205 00:11:08,366 --> 00:11:12,233 he was always attracted to more dominant women. 206 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,066 -I do remember being rather intrigued 207 00:11:16,166 --> 00:11:19,966 that the reason he'd given up the throne for this woman, 208 00:11:20,066 --> 00:11:22,700 because it had to do with sex. 209 00:11:25,033 --> 00:11:26,766 She was the only person 210 00:11:26,866 --> 00:11:28,533 that he knew how to go to bed with, 211 00:11:28,633 --> 00:11:29,700 as it were. 212 00:11:33,633 --> 00:11:36,233 -I think he was what we would call bisexual. 213 00:11:36,333 --> 00:11:38,133 Somebody once told me, 214 00:11:38,233 --> 00:11:39,833 what you don't understand about the royal family 215 00:11:39,933 --> 00:11:43,866 is that they think if they do it with a footman it doesn't count. 216 00:11:43,966 --> 00:11:47,100 -The Duke's sexuality is very hard to pin down. 217 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,266 He liked being sort of humiliated. 218 00:11:49,366 --> 00:11:51,200 But a lot of men did at that time, 219 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:52,466 it was a very English thing. 220 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:56,766 -It had so much become the two of them 221 00:11:56,866 --> 00:11:57,966 against the world 222 00:11:58,066 --> 00:12:00,033 that they saw everything through the lens 223 00:12:00,133 --> 00:12:02,633 of how it was affecting both of them, 224 00:12:02,733 --> 00:12:04,266 as a sort of survival. 225 00:12:10,233 --> 00:12:12,766 -He felt like a wounded child 226 00:12:12,866 --> 00:12:15,500 and of course, the sinister person 227 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,533 who came into the playground to pick up the wounded child 228 00:12:18,633 --> 00:12:21,266 was the Third Reich in Adolf Hitler. 229 00:12:21,366 --> 00:12:25,733 ♪♪ 230 00:12:25,833 --> 00:12:32,233 ♪♪ 231 00:12:32,333 --> 00:12:35,133 [ Indistinct conversations ] 232 00:12:37,100 --> 00:12:39,666 -My step-father was an old friend 233 00:12:39,766 --> 00:12:41,966 of the Duke of Windsor. 234 00:12:43,466 --> 00:12:46,933 I never thought that I'd ever be reliving these days again. 235 00:12:48,933 --> 00:12:51,300 After the war, when I went to Paris, 236 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:52,433 I remember the Duke, 237 00:12:52,533 --> 00:12:54,500 every sentence always started 238 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:55,866 with "When I was King..." 239 00:12:55,966 --> 00:12:57,933 And I said, "Well, you crammed an awful lot in 240 00:12:58,033 --> 00:13:00,500 considering you were only King for about 10 minutes." 241 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:02,500 And he sulked for the rest of that morning. 242 00:13:03,766 --> 00:13:05,100 -He wasn't straight. 243 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:06,766 There was something that you couldn't quite trust 244 00:13:06,866 --> 00:13:07,933 about him. 245 00:13:09,633 --> 00:13:12,033 -You could see that determination 246 00:13:12,133 --> 00:13:15,233 and that tenacity to get what he wanted. 247 00:13:15,333 --> 00:13:21,333 ♪♪ 248 00:13:21,433 --> 00:13:25,933 ♪♪ 249 00:13:26,033 --> 00:13:27,466 -In May, 1939, 250 00:13:27,566 --> 00:13:30,100 the Duke, who had an office in Paris, 251 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:31,733 made a broadcast, 252 00:13:31,833 --> 00:13:35,933 in which he said Britain should be doing all in its power 253 00:13:36,033 --> 00:13:38,033 to come to terms with Nazi Germany 254 00:13:38,133 --> 00:13:39,466 and not have a war. 255 00:13:42,233 --> 00:13:45,566 -He didn't listen to advice that didn't suit him. 256 00:13:45,666 --> 00:13:47,300 He was a naive fool. 257 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,033 -The context is so damaging 258 00:13:51,133 --> 00:13:53,233 because by May 1939, 259 00:13:53,333 --> 00:13:54,733 we were determined to fight Hitler, 260 00:13:54,833 --> 00:13:56,433 we couldn't appease him. 261 00:14:03,766 --> 00:14:05,766 [ Recorder playing ] 262 00:14:36,333 --> 00:14:39,300 -This is extraordinary new evidence. 263 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,433 It was found in the BBC archives, 264 00:14:41,533 --> 00:14:44,700 it had lain there undiscovered since 1939. 265 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:46,666 It was never broadcast. 266 00:14:46,766 --> 00:14:48,333 It shouldn't be heard in Britain. 267 00:14:53,733 --> 00:14:56,033 The horrors of the Nazi regime were coming through, 268 00:14:56,133 --> 00:14:57,466 so word was coming back 269 00:14:57,566 --> 00:15:01,033 that this was a very vicious and totalitarian regime, 270 00:15:01,133 --> 00:15:03,233 and not someone that we could make peace with. 271 00:15:03,333 --> 00:15:13,033 ♪♪ 272 00:15:13,133 --> 00:15:15,433 The title is "Edward, HRH, 273 00:15:15,533 --> 00:15:17,900 Duke of Windsor: Sound Archive." 274 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,733 And then, at the bottom, 275 00:15:19,833 --> 00:15:22,900 it says, "Important: Not to be broadcast." 276 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,033 ♪♪ 277 00:15:27,133 --> 00:15:30,800 The Duke is asking the British to surrender to Hitler 278 00:15:30,900 --> 00:15:33,000 before the war has even started. 279 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:37,633 -The BBC were furious, 280 00:15:37,733 --> 00:15:40,833 because they felt that the impartiality 281 00:15:40,933 --> 00:15:43,000 of the BBC would be infringed, 282 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:46,600 and they felt that the Nazis were using the Duke of Windsor 283 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:48,700 for their own propaganda, 284 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:49,966 which they were, of course. 285 00:15:52,033 --> 00:15:54,500 Nobody quite knew what was going to happen in May, 286 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,400 but certainly by later in 1939, 287 00:15:56,500 --> 00:15:58,666 it was fairly obvious what was going to happen. 288 00:16:00,033 --> 00:16:02,933 [Air raid siren] 289 00:16:03,033 --> 00:16:05,866 [Dramatic music] 290 00:16:05,966 --> 00:16:09,533 -This country is at war with Germany. 291 00:16:09,633 --> 00:16:16,900 ♪♪ 292 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,666 -The first Christmas broadcast 293 00:16:18,766 --> 00:16:20,533 that George VI ever made, 294 00:16:20,633 --> 00:16:22,666 made an enormous impression, 295 00:16:22,766 --> 00:16:24,633 not only in Britain but throughout the world. 296 00:16:25,933 --> 00:16:28,233 [ Recording plays ] 297 00:16:43,266 --> 00:16:45,500 -After Edward had abdicated, 298 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:46,733 his brother, George, 299 00:16:46,833 --> 00:16:48,333 didn't really want to become King. 300 00:16:49,433 --> 00:16:51,000 -The Second World War came, 301 00:16:51,100 --> 00:16:53,300 and the true qualities of George VI 302 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,000 and Queen Elizabeth could be shown, 303 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:56,333 that they had courage, 304 00:16:56,433 --> 00:16:58,733 they were prepared to live austerely, 305 00:16:58,833 --> 00:17:01,066 they lived on ordinary rations 306 00:17:01,166 --> 00:17:02,200 like everybody else. 307 00:17:03,466 --> 00:17:05,666 And the little princesses, Margaret Rose 308 00:17:05,766 --> 00:17:08,633 and Princess Elizabeth were all doing their bit. 309 00:17:11,300 --> 00:17:12,566 Very, very different 310 00:17:12,666 --> 00:17:14,466 from the way that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor 311 00:17:14,566 --> 00:17:15,600 had been living. 312 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,300 -His affinity was with Germany, 313 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,800 but I think it was a compromise. 314 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:27,200 There they were, exiled, unfulfilled, 315 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:29,433 for his popularity, for his sense of self, 316 00:17:29,533 --> 00:17:33,833 he definitely wanted a position, he wanted a sense of purpose. 317 00:17:33,933 --> 00:17:36,366 He wanted a role within his family. 318 00:17:39,433 --> 00:17:40,700 -After war was declared, 319 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:42,466 in an apparent change of heart, 320 00:17:42,566 --> 00:17:45,533 the Duke of Windsor wrote to his brother from Paris 321 00:17:45,633 --> 00:17:48,100 insisting that he too should be seen 322 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,266 to be playing his part in the British war effort. 323 00:17:55,066 --> 00:17:57,133 -He's given a job as a liaison officer 324 00:17:57,233 --> 00:17:58,566 to the French First Army, 325 00:17:58,666 --> 00:18:02,700 which requires him to go and inspect the French defenses. 326 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,000 He's actually got an intelligence officer with him 327 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:06,700 to keep an eye on him. 328 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,166 -And the living symbol of Franco-British cooperation 329 00:18:09,266 --> 00:18:11,066 is Major General, the Duke of Windsor, 330 00:18:11,166 --> 00:18:12,266 greeted by a snowstorm 331 00:18:12,366 --> 00:18:14,066 when he comes up to the front line. 332 00:18:14,166 --> 00:18:16,133 His job is to ensure continuous contact 333 00:18:16,233 --> 00:18:18,000 between the high commands of Britain and France. 334 00:18:19,533 --> 00:18:22,666 -I think it's all about upstaging his brother 335 00:18:22,766 --> 00:18:25,133 and to show that he can play a part 336 00:18:25,233 --> 00:18:28,433 in world events, that he can make a difference. 337 00:18:28,533 --> 00:18:29,633 -He insists on climbing out 338 00:18:29,733 --> 00:18:30,800 to an advanced position 339 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:32,066 to meet the officers and men 340 00:18:32,166 --> 00:18:34,100 who are on guard by day and by night. 341 00:18:35,166 --> 00:18:36,466 -He writes four reports 342 00:18:36,566 --> 00:18:39,433 looking at the poor general-ship, the poor moral, 343 00:18:39,533 --> 00:18:42,200 the fact that they are not actually as effective 344 00:18:42,300 --> 00:18:44,433 as perhaps the French had been arguing. 345 00:18:44,533 --> 00:18:46,833 The problem is that these reports 346 00:18:46,933 --> 00:18:48,933 are not taken seriously in Whitehall. 347 00:18:50,866 --> 00:18:52,833 -Nobody wanted to hear anything from Edward, 348 00:18:52,933 --> 00:18:56,566 he was just dismissed as being a sort of irrelevant, 349 00:18:56,666 --> 00:18:59,833 vain, and untrustworthy source. 350 00:18:59,933 --> 00:19:02,766 His brother refused to lift up the phone when he rang. 351 00:19:05,866 --> 00:19:10,533 -Here is a former king that is exiled from Britain. 352 00:19:10,633 --> 00:19:14,733 There was so much hurt, rage, misunderstanding, 353 00:19:14,833 --> 00:19:19,333 that went into a lot of why and how he behaved. 354 00:19:19,433 --> 00:19:21,400 He was utterly selfish. 355 00:19:23,766 --> 00:19:27,000 -Edward seems to have thought that after he abdicated 356 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:28,900 he would still be a leading figure 357 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,500 in British public life. 358 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,866 Britain didn't seem to have any sense of his importance. 359 00:19:34,966 --> 00:19:43,300 ♪♪ 360 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,200 -I do remember thinking at the time, 361 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:48,933 that poor little twerp of an ex-King was being, 362 00:19:49,033 --> 00:19:53,866 you know, pulled by the nose for whatever reason by fascists. 363 00:19:56,433 --> 00:19:58,633 -As a lot of the documents might suggest, 364 00:19:58,733 --> 00:20:02,100 the Duke was terrifyingly open to Germany 365 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,833 and what he felt the Germans could offer him. 366 00:20:08,266 --> 00:20:09,533 -The captured German documents 367 00:20:09,633 --> 00:20:11,800 are clearly one of the most important sources, 368 00:20:11,900 --> 00:20:14,266 and it's not just the odd telegram. 369 00:20:14,366 --> 00:20:17,200 This collection is riddled with references 370 00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:22,100 to his hope of being restored to the throne by the Germans. 371 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,866 ♪♪ 372 00:20:26,966 --> 00:20:32,366 ♪♪ 373 00:20:32,466 --> 00:20:35,566 -"Through personal relationships I might have the opportunity 374 00:20:35,666 --> 00:20:39,766 to establish certain lines leading to the Duke of Windsor. 375 00:20:39,866 --> 00:20:41,700 As of course you know W is a member 376 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,666 of the French military mission with the French army command. 377 00:20:45,766 --> 00:20:49,400 He does not however feel entirely satisfied 378 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:50,700 with this position." 379 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:01,333 January 1940 is a pretty sensitive point of the war. 380 00:21:01,433 --> 00:21:03,666 The Germans are poised to invade France 381 00:21:03,766 --> 00:21:04,900 and the low countries, 382 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,200 and the only thing that they really lack 383 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:08,566 is intelligence, 384 00:21:08,666 --> 00:21:10,833 and this is what the Duke is about to bring them. 385 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:13,433 -The Duke of Windsor went back 386 00:21:13,533 --> 00:21:15,400 to really just being a socialite in Paris 387 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:17,533 and gave up any thought of being a soldier, 388 00:21:17,633 --> 00:21:20,766 and his careless talk, undoubtedly later on, 389 00:21:20,866 --> 00:21:22,133 did cost lives. 390 00:21:24,166 --> 00:21:26,266 -He was trying to impress other people 391 00:21:26,366 --> 00:21:28,033 that he knew about power. 392 00:21:29,933 --> 00:21:32,566 -So, anybody, German, English, 393 00:21:32,666 --> 00:21:35,366 who is going to make him feel powerful and important, 394 00:21:35,466 --> 00:21:36,800 he succumbed to that. 395 00:21:41,066 --> 00:21:42,400 -There is an intermediary 396 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:44,733 who was feeding information to the Germans, 397 00:21:44,833 --> 00:21:47,533 who was part of the Duke of Windsor's entourage, 398 00:21:47,633 --> 00:21:49,533 and this is almost certainly Charles Bedaux. 399 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:54,566 This is the man, of course, 400 00:21:54,666 --> 00:21:56,866 who lent them his chateau for their wedding, 401 00:21:56,966 --> 00:21:58,433 he's seeing them almost every night, 402 00:21:58,533 --> 00:22:01,100 and he's moving between Paris and The Hague 403 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,500 where he has his business interests. 404 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,766 The situation is we have a disgruntled Duke 405 00:22:10,866 --> 00:22:12,733 who doesn't feel he's being taken seriously 406 00:22:12,833 --> 00:22:14,600 in Whitehall, 407 00:22:14,733 --> 00:22:17,833 who is in close contact with a German agent, 408 00:22:17,933 --> 00:22:21,400 Charles Bedaux, who is believed to be passing information 409 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:25,100 to that agent, who in turn, is passing it back 410 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,066 to the German ambassador in The Hague 411 00:22:27,166 --> 00:22:29,100 who is passing it on to Berlin. 412 00:22:32,666 --> 00:22:35,066 -Blab, blab, blab. Everything. 413 00:22:35,166 --> 00:22:37,933 All the telephone calls, the letters, 414 00:22:38,033 --> 00:22:41,000 everything went back to the Nazis. 415 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:44,866 -He knew that when he boasted about his knowledge 416 00:22:44,966 --> 00:22:47,733 about the inadequacy of French fortifications 417 00:22:47,833 --> 00:22:50,666 that this would go back to Germany. 418 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,066 -Edward's motivation was a sense of rejection 419 00:22:56,166 --> 00:22:57,233 from England. 420 00:22:57,333 --> 00:22:59,766 I think he never really got over that. 421 00:23:03,133 --> 00:23:06,866 -The Duke of Windsor wasn't merely weakening France, 422 00:23:06,966 --> 00:23:08,566 and the French Army, 423 00:23:08,666 --> 00:23:11,000 there was the British Expeditionary Force 424 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:13,866 which was basically the entire British Army. 425 00:23:16,133 --> 00:23:18,933 [Dramatic music] 426 00:23:19,033 --> 00:23:24,766 ♪♪ 427 00:23:24,866 --> 00:23:27,000 -The tragedy of France became complete, 428 00:23:27,100 --> 00:23:30,700 the German army poured across the Seine Bridge and into Paris. 429 00:23:35,433 --> 00:23:37,133 When the attack comes, 430 00:23:37,233 --> 00:23:41,733 it is the very weak spots that the Duke has identified 431 00:23:41,833 --> 00:23:44,066 which the Germans actually attack. 432 00:23:44,166 --> 00:23:51,200 ♪♪ 433 00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:59,600 ♪♪ 434 00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:02,000 -Overhead, the RAF valiantly battled 435 00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:03,700 the cream of the Nazi Luftwaffe, 436 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,766 the men on the beach and the boats in the harbor 437 00:24:05,866 --> 00:24:07,200 were literally sitting ducks 438 00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:09,066 for any dive bomber that got through. 439 00:24:14,233 --> 00:24:15,866 -You can draw a direct correlation 440 00:24:15,966 --> 00:24:19,000 between the betrayal of this information 441 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:22,500 and the rapid invasion of France and the low countries, 442 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,900 the defeat of the British Expeditionary Force 443 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,166 and its forced retreat to Dunkirk. 444 00:24:30,433 --> 00:24:31,733 -There were 300,000 men, 445 00:24:31,833 --> 00:24:33,666 many of them, of course, never came home 446 00:24:33,766 --> 00:24:34,866 because they were killed. 447 00:24:37,133 --> 00:24:38,566 -They included many different nationalities 448 00:24:38,666 --> 00:24:40,133 across the empire. 449 00:24:40,233 --> 00:24:42,633 They're not conscripted, they come voluntarily, 450 00:24:42,733 --> 00:24:45,666 if they had known that a member of the royal family 451 00:24:45,766 --> 00:24:48,666 had helped supply information 452 00:24:48,766 --> 00:24:52,266 that led to that route to Dunkirk, to that evacuation, 453 00:24:52,366 --> 00:24:54,233 it would have been utterly galling. 454 00:24:54,333 --> 00:25:02,733 ♪♪ 455 00:25:02,833 --> 00:25:05,300 [ Horns honk ] 456 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:14,533 ♪♪ 457 00:25:14,633 --> 00:25:16,766 -We shall fight on the beaches. 458 00:25:16,866 --> 00:25:19,533 We shall fight on the landing grounds. 459 00:25:19,633 --> 00:25:23,200 We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. 460 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:25,700 We shall fight in the hills. 461 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,366 We shall never surrender. 462 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:31,266 -Churchill's getting absolutely fed up, 463 00:25:31,366 --> 00:25:33,300 the situation is getting extremely dangerous. 464 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,533 The Duke, of course, still holds a military rank 465 00:25:36,633 --> 00:25:39,933 and this is the device that Churchill is going to use. 466 00:25:40,033 --> 00:25:49,466 ♪♪ 467 00:25:49,566 --> 00:25:52,633 "Your Royal Highness has taken active military rank 468 00:25:52,733 --> 00:25:54,733 and refusal to obey direct orders 469 00:25:54,833 --> 00:25:56,800 of competent military authority 470 00:25:56,900 --> 00:25:59,066 would create a serious situation. 471 00:25:59,166 --> 00:26:02,000 I most strongly urge immediate compliance 472 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:04,333 with wishes of the Government." 473 00:26:04,433 --> 00:26:07,300 Now, this is a prime minister 474 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,666 threatening a former King 475 00:26:10,766 --> 00:26:11,933 with a court martial. 476 00:26:14,733 --> 00:26:16,400 This is a very serious offense, 477 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:18,300 it's unique in British history 478 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,400 that a sovereign has been threatened 479 00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:21,666 with court martial. 480 00:26:24,166 --> 00:26:25,500 Little does Churchill know, 481 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,266 that this is actually not the beginning of the end, 482 00:26:28,366 --> 00:26:30,566 but there is going to be much more trouble in store. 483 00:26:33,633 --> 00:26:36,266 [Soft piano music] 484 00:26:36,366 --> 00:26:40,900 ♪♪ 485 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,433 [Dramatic music] 486 00:26:43,533 --> 00:26:46,766 ♪♪ 487 00:26:46,866 --> 00:26:48,266 -There was absolute terror, 488 00:26:48,366 --> 00:26:51,700 the Blitz and the bombardment of British cities. 489 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,033 Rationing had come in, people were hungry, 490 00:26:54,133 --> 00:26:56,233 people were terrified out of their wits 491 00:26:56,333 --> 00:26:59,733 and they had to keep going in very, very grim circumstances. 492 00:27:01,733 --> 00:27:04,633 Not so, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. 493 00:27:04,733 --> 00:27:08,833 It was clear that safe passage had been arranged by Hitler, 494 00:27:08,933 --> 00:27:10,033 by the Third Reich. 495 00:27:11,766 --> 00:27:14,300 They swanned off, in luxury, 496 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,733 from France down into the Iberian Peninsular, 497 00:27:17,833 --> 00:27:19,433 through Spain, into Portugal. 498 00:27:19,533 --> 00:27:22,466 [Upbeat music] 499 00:27:22,566 --> 00:27:28,233 ♪♪ 500 00:27:28,333 --> 00:27:34,900 ♪♪ 501 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:39,900 ♪♪ 502 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 All the news was the Third Reich, 503 00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:47,433 this terrifying death cult was taking over the world, 504 00:27:47,533 --> 00:27:49,800 and meanwhile, just outside Lisbon, 505 00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:52,166 the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were living it up. 506 00:27:52,266 --> 00:27:54,300 [Big band music] 507 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,066 They were having their nails polished and varnished. 508 00:27:58,166 --> 00:27:59,866 They were going to expensive restaurants, 509 00:27:59,966 --> 00:28:01,766 they were playing golf. 510 00:28:01,866 --> 00:28:04,000 They were talking to their idiotic friends. 511 00:28:06,333 --> 00:28:08,866 -I know that the optics look off. 512 00:28:08,966 --> 00:28:11,400 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor sunbathing. 513 00:28:13,033 --> 00:28:16,500 Obviously, it's a deeply unedifying picture. 514 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,600 It looked like he abandoned his country. 515 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:24,033 ♪♪ 516 00:28:24,133 --> 00:28:27,033 [ Birds squawk ] 517 00:28:27,133 --> 00:28:36,766 ♪♪ 518 00:28:36,866 --> 00:28:38,866 -I'm a Portuguese journalist. 519 00:28:38,966 --> 00:28:40,766 I wanted to go deeper 520 00:28:40,866 --> 00:28:43,300 and find out what actually happened. 521 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,433 We all knew all these rumors about the Duke of Windsor 522 00:28:50,533 --> 00:28:54,533 and his sympathies to Hitler and Germany. 523 00:28:54,633 --> 00:28:58,000 But nobody really established the facts 524 00:28:58,100 --> 00:29:00,333 of what really was going on. 525 00:29:04,533 --> 00:29:05,966 I've been spending a few hours 526 00:29:06,066 --> 00:29:07,866 at the Portuguese National Archives 527 00:29:07,966 --> 00:29:11,700 with this amazing secret police report. 528 00:29:13,900 --> 00:29:17,966 10 pages detailing day by day, almost by the hour, 529 00:29:18,066 --> 00:29:22,433 what the Duke and the Duchess did during their stay here 530 00:29:22,533 --> 00:29:24,133 in Cascais in Lisbon. 531 00:29:25,566 --> 00:29:30,200 The streets were full of spies and, from both camps. 532 00:29:30,300 --> 00:29:33,566 It's probably the only European capital 533 00:29:33,666 --> 00:29:37,100 where both the allies and Nazis 534 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,900 could watch each other 535 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,533 and spy on each other. 536 00:29:41,633 --> 00:29:51,000 ♪♪ 537 00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:55,366 Here we have this incredible document. 538 00:29:55,466 --> 00:29:59,433 It's a very detailed day to day, almost by the hour, 539 00:29:59,533 --> 00:30:03,466 details all the movements from the Duke and Duchess. 540 00:30:05,866 --> 00:30:08,066 Their stay in Cascais in Lisbon 541 00:30:08,166 --> 00:30:10,500 as I can see, he played a lot of golf. 542 00:30:15,866 --> 00:30:19,200 They also spent a lot of time by the swimming pool 543 00:30:19,300 --> 00:30:22,133 or having nice dinners 544 00:30:22,233 --> 00:30:25,566 or in Cascais with friends like the Baron Rothschild 545 00:30:25,666 --> 00:30:28,700 or some of the most notable families 546 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,466 from the Portuguese aristocracy. 547 00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:36,900 The 10th of July, the report reads, 548 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:42,133 "The Duke left by 11 a.m. with the Spanish Don Javier 549 00:30:42,233 --> 00:30:43,200 to Lisbon. 550 00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:44,266 By lunchtime, 551 00:30:44,366 --> 00:30:47,266 they went to centre of Lisbon, 552 00:30:47,366 --> 00:30:49,400 where they both bought cigars." 553 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,500 You learned that he travels to Lisbon 554 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,466 with his Spanish friends 555 00:30:55,566 --> 00:30:57,066 who are, of course, 556 00:30:57,166 --> 00:30:59,833 working on the behalf of Nazi Germany, 557 00:30:59,933 --> 00:31:03,866 and they visit the embassies and they discuss what to do. 558 00:31:08,366 --> 00:31:11,333 The Duke of Windsor and the Duchess 559 00:31:11,433 --> 00:31:14,500 were taken to this mansion in Cascais. 560 00:31:17,033 --> 00:31:19,466 The host for this, very glamorous 561 00:31:19,566 --> 00:31:23,033 and well connected, and sophisticated person, 562 00:31:23,133 --> 00:31:24,633 Ricardo Espírito Santo. 563 00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:31,866 [Suspenseful music] 564 00:31:31,966 --> 00:31:39,300 ♪♪ 565 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,400 They occupied a suite of rooms on the first floor 566 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:44,800 overlooking the Atlantic, 567 00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:47,500 they had at least 12 servants, 568 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,600 including a chef who we know was rather annoyed 569 00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:53,800 by the Duke of Windsor saying, 570 00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:56,633 "I don't want any of your elaborate menus, 571 00:31:56,733 --> 00:31:58,166 just give me sardines." 572 00:32:00,933 --> 00:32:02,900 During my trips to the National Archives, 573 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,733 I found out the true connections 574 00:32:05,833 --> 00:32:09,533 between Espírito Santo and the Nazi Germany. 575 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:14,233 He became president of this small family bank 576 00:32:14,333 --> 00:32:16,566 that was founded in 1920, 577 00:32:16,666 --> 00:32:19,366 but during the war the bank of Espírito Santo 578 00:32:19,466 --> 00:32:22,366 just became the biggest bank in the country. 579 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:25,300 -There were intelligence reports 580 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:26,933 in Britain compiled on him, 581 00:32:27,033 --> 00:32:29,033 he was a fence for looted goods 582 00:32:29,133 --> 00:32:32,433 and in effect, acted as banker to the Nazis. 583 00:32:32,533 --> 00:32:35,933 -His job is to write reports on the Duke of Windsor. 584 00:32:37,533 --> 00:32:40,666 Edward wanted to come back as a Nazi-installed leader. 585 00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:44,966 It's clear that his pro-Nazi sentiments continue 586 00:32:45,066 --> 00:32:46,466 to be as strong as ever. 587 00:32:46,566 --> 00:32:53,633 ♪♪ 588 00:32:53,733 --> 00:32:56,500 They're treated as VIP guests in effect. 589 00:32:57,966 --> 00:32:59,333 They arrange with the Germans 590 00:32:59,433 --> 00:33:02,300 for a member of staff to be given safe passage 591 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:03,300 back to Paris 592 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,966 to repatriate Wallis's swimsuit, 593 00:33:06,066 --> 00:33:07,833 Nile green swimsuit, 594 00:33:07,933 --> 00:33:11,100 in an operation called Operation Cleopatra Whim. 595 00:33:13,033 --> 00:33:16,600 Their only focus is on their own personal needs. 596 00:33:19,566 --> 00:33:21,300 This is one of the documents from Lisbon 597 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,466 the Germans never expected to be discovered. 598 00:33:24,566 --> 00:33:30,966 ♪♪ 599 00:33:31,066 --> 00:33:35,466 ♪♪ 600 00:33:35,566 --> 00:33:37,566 I think it's one of the most shocking documents 601 00:33:37,666 --> 00:33:39,600 that I found in my research. 602 00:33:39,700 --> 00:33:41,200 He characterizes himself 603 00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:44,266 as a firm supporter of a peaceful arrangement 604 00:33:44,366 --> 00:33:45,733 with Germany. 605 00:33:45,833 --> 00:33:47,633 And then, this bit. 606 00:33:47,733 --> 00:33:52,033 "The Duke definitely believes that continued severe bombing 607 00:33:52,133 --> 00:33:54,433 would make England ready for peace." 608 00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:58,100 I mean, this is extraordinary. 609 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,766 Here is the former king of Great Britain 610 00:34:02,866 --> 00:34:06,666 saying that if you bomb Britain, bomb his family, 611 00:34:06,766 --> 00:34:08,266 bomb his country, 612 00:34:08,366 --> 00:34:10,166 that that's the best way to, 613 00:34:10,266 --> 00:34:13,766 to bring them to, to sue for peace. 614 00:34:13,866 --> 00:34:16,633 He's quite prepared to go to those lengths 615 00:34:16,733 --> 00:34:19,266 in order to achieve his aims. 616 00:34:19,366 --> 00:34:21,733 It's -- It's chilling and sinister. 617 00:34:23,133 --> 00:34:25,600 And -- And it's frankly, very shocking. 618 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,833 He was so disloyal to his brother 619 00:34:32,933 --> 00:34:35,833 that he was calling for the bombing of Britain 620 00:34:35,933 --> 00:34:37,666 as a way of subjugating them. 621 00:34:44,333 --> 00:34:45,900 We have evidence of this 622 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,900 and indeed, Ricardo Espírito do Santo, 623 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,533 the German agent to pass this information 624 00:34:51,633 --> 00:34:54,700 back to the German minister in Lisbon, 625 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,633 who then asked for instructions from Berlin. 626 00:34:57,733 --> 00:35:04,633 ♪♪ 627 00:35:04,733 --> 00:35:07,766 The Duke had encouraged the Germans to bomb London 628 00:35:07,866 --> 00:35:09,400 and indeed that's what they do. 629 00:35:15,433 --> 00:35:17,666 On the 13th of September, 1940, 630 00:35:17,766 --> 00:35:21,933 Messerschmitts fly down The Mall and bomb Buckingham Palace. 631 00:35:23,566 --> 00:35:26,433 Literally missing the King and Queen by feet. 632 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:30,000 Let's look at it in personal terms. 633 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:32,766 This is the Duke encouraging the Germans 634 00:35:32,866 --> 00:35:35,866 to subjugate the British. 635 00:35:35,966 --> 00:35:39,933 This is a man who will stop at nothing to usurp the throne, 636 00:35:40,033 --> 00:35:42,833 even if it requires the death of his own brother. 637 00:35:46,166 --> 00:35:48,033 -To my mind, that's the most appalling thing 638 00:35:48,133 --> 00:35:49,300 he ever did, 639 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,000 actively to say to somebody that you think 640 00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:53,466 the cities of your own country, 641 00:35:53,566 --> 00:35:55,566 particularly, if you've been the king of that country, 642 00:35:55,666 --> 00:35:56,933 should be bombed. 643 00:35:57,033 --> 00:35:59,800 That the civilians should be killed in thousands, 644 00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:02,000 tens of thousands. 645 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:05,133 -It feels enormously shocking to read those words. 646 00:36:05,233 --> 00:36:08,633 Was he actually saying that the war could be won 647 00:36:08,733 --> 00:36:10,866 and England would surrender 648 00:36:10,966 --> 00:36:13,166 if a continued bombing campaign took place? 649 00:36:13,266 --> 00:36:16,200 A sense that... 650 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:18,433 vindication 651 00:36:18,533 --> 00:36:21,233 or comeuppance would be delivered 652 00:36:21,333 --> 00:36:23,800 if the whole house of cards would come crashing down. 653 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,300 -The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, now steps in 654 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,533 and insists the Duke take up a role 655 00:36:33,633 --> 00:36:35,566 as Governor of the Bahamas. 656 00:36:35,666 --> 00:36:38,633 In documents which I've seen at the Royal Archives, 657 00:36:38,733 --> 00:36:41,733 the Germans describe this as a come down. 658 00:36:41,833 --> 00:36:43,766 The Duke reluctantly accepts, 659 00:36:43,866 --> 00:36:47,433 but he continues to remain in direct contact with them 660 00:36:47,533 --> 00:36:49,633 even after taking up the post. 661 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,100 The Duke indeed on his way to the Bahamas 662 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,366 sent a telegram in code 663 00:36:59,466 --> 00:37:01,866 to Ricardo Espírito do Santo 664 00:37:01,966 --> 00:37:03,766 saying that he was willing to come back 665 00:37:03,866 --> 00:37:06,166 if the opportunity arose, 666 00:37:06,266 --> 00:37:09,266 and it relates basically to these captured German documents. 667 00:37:09,366 --> 00:37:12,266 [Dramatic music] 668 00:37:12,366 --> 00:37:18,433 ♪♪ 669 00:37:18,533 --> 00:37:23,433 ♪♪ 670 00:37:23,533 --> 00:37:25,233 I have the document here, 671 00:37:25,333 --> 00:37:28,433 and it shows that he very knowingly communicated 672 00:37:28,533 --> 00:37:30,133 with a German agent. 673 00:37:30,233 --> 00:37:33,266 "The minister in Portugal reported the confidant," 674 00:37:33,366 --> 00:37:35,466 this is Ricardo Espírito do Santo, 675 00:37:35,566 --> 00:37:37,033 who is a Nazi agent, 676 00:37:37,133 --> 00:37:39,933 "has just received a telegram from the Duke 677 00:37:40,033 --> 00:37:42,133 asking him to send a communication 678 00:37:42,233 --> 00:37:44,333 as soon as action was advisable." 679 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:52,666 ♪♪ 680 00:37:52,766 --> 00:37:57,766 ♪♪ 681 00:37:57,866 --> 00:38:00,666 This document reveals, very conclusively, 682 00:38:00,766 --> 00:38:03,200 that the Duke knew exactly what he was doing 683 00:38:03,300 --> 00:38:05,900 and frankly, was a traitor to this country. 684 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,600 Communications with the enemy during war 685 00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:10,366 was against the Treachery Act, 686 00:38:10,466 --> 00:38:12,866 he could well have been executed. 687 00:38:12,966 --> 00:38:15,933 It seems to have been a case of power at any cost. 688 00:38:16,033 --> 00:38:22,966 ♪♪ 689 00:38:23,066 --> 00:38:25,700 [ Camera shutter clicking ] 690 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,766 -The Duchess of Windsor and I 691 00:38:27,866 --> 00:38:31,366 are receiving a number of American journalists 692 00:38:31,466 --> 00:38:33,400 in Government House, Nassau. 693 00:38:40,066 --> 00:38:41,100 -Cut. 694 00:38:43,333 --> 00:38:47,033 It is a very warm afternoon, 695 00:38:47,133 --> 00:38:49,733 too warm for taking pictures. 696 00:38:52,866 --> 00:38:55,633 -It's very difficult if you've traversed the world 697 00:38:55,766 --> 00:38:57,166 as the Prince of Wales and then the King, 698 00:38:57,266 --> 00:38:59,966 and suddenly you're Governor of the Bahamas. 699 00:39:00,066 --> 00:39:02,033 It would have been humiliating for him, 700 00:39:02,133 --> 00:39:04,133 and Wallis could see that. 701 00:39:07,033 --> 00:39:09,866 -It was still a very long road to victory 702 00:39:09,966 --> 00:39:13,366 but at least once America had entered the war, 703 00:39:13,466 --> 00:39:15,366 it was reasonably clear 704 00:39:15,466 --> 00:39:17,533 what the outcome was going to be. 705 00:39:19,633 --> 00:39:20,800 -At the end of the war, 706 00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:24,100 I think that Edward just didn't give a damn 707 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,866 and is, in a way, sticking two fingers to it all. 708 00:39:33,700 --> 00:39:35,900 [Upbeat jazz music] 709 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:37,800 -I remember at a party in New York, 710 00:39:37,900 --> 00:39:39,900 he got quite drunk, 711 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,333 and he started singing German songs. 712 00:39:43,433 --> 00:39:46,933 He was sitting on a sofa, I remember it well, 713 00:39:47,033 --> 00:39:48,233 the fireplace was there, 714 00:39:48,333 --> 00:39:51,000 I was sort of standing by the window here, 715 00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:52,333 and he just started singing. 716 00:39:52,433 --> 00:39:54,466 [Upbeat German song] 717 00:39:54,566 --> 00:39:56,933 Actually his arm went up like that, you know, 718 00:39:57,033 --> 00:39:58,333 vague sort of salute. 719 00:40:01,333 --> 00:40:03,733 -He seems to be unchanged in his views, 720 00:40:03,833 --> 00:40:06,433 despite everything that happened during the Second World War. 721 00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:12,733 For the rest of his life, 722 00:40:12,833 --> 00:40:14,266 he was effectively cold shouldered 723 00:40:14,366 --> 00:40:15,866 by the royal family. 724 00:40:15,966 --> 00:40:17,733 His brothers and various other relations 725 00:40:17,833 --> 00:40:19,600 never sort of talked to him about it, 726 00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:21,933 they feel sort of embarrassed and uncomfortable. 727 00:40:22,033 --> 00:40:23,800 They never have that conversation. 728 00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:27,000 [Suspenseful music] 729 00:40:27,100 --> 00:40:29,833 -The convincing evidence for the Windsor's treachery 730 00:40:29,933 --> 00:40:32,633 lies with the German Foreign Ministry files. 731 00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:36,633 And political establishment 732 00:40:36,733 --> 00:40:39,733 realizes that they cannot suppress them, 733 00:40:39,833 --> 00:40:41,333 and we have the evidence here. 734 00:40:46,466 --> 00:40:49,533 In the depths of the archives of the House of Commons, 735 00:40:49,633 --> 00:40:52,000 I'm looking at the diary of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, 736 00:40:52,100 --> 00:40:53,833 a journalist of this period. 737 00:40:53,933 --> 00:40:56,933 Rumors are circulating about the captured German documents, 738 00:40:57,033 --> 00:40:58,600 this is 1946. 739 00:40:58,700 --> 00:41:01,200 And he writes in his diary, it's very revealing. 740 00:41:08,833 --> 00:41:11,166 "They have found some damaging material 741 00:41:11,266 --> 00:41:12,700 on the Duke of Windsor, 742 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,100 there are various protocols of Nazi conversations with him, 743 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,100 including one at Lisbon during the war." 744 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:23,500 This is the famous document of the 11th of July 1940, 745 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,866 where the Duke tells the Nazis 746 00:41:25,966 --> 00:41:28,100 that the best way to subjugate Britain 747 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:29,233 is to bomb it. 748 00:41:33,333 --> 00:41:36,366 [Upbeat music] 749 00:41:38,866 --> 00:41:41,466 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor's life 750 00:41:41,566 --> 00:41:42,600 after the war, 751 00:41:42,700 --> 00:41:43,800 remains as extravagant 752 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:46,166 as it was before the war. 753 00:41:46,266 --> 00:41:48,766 Now much of this was supported by rich friends 754 00:41:48,866 --> 00:41:50,333 who they sponged off. 755 00:41:52,833 --> 00:41:55,166 There's been an attempt over the previous 9 years 756 00:41:55,266 --> 00:41:58,000 to suppress, minimize, delay 757 00:41:58,100 --> 00:42:01,233 the publication of these captured German documents, 758 00:42:01,333 --> 00:42:03,400 and finally the moment has come 759 00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:05,533 when they are going to be published. 760 00:42:09,233 --> 00:42:11,933 The Duke didn't feel that he'd done anything wrong. 761 00:42:13,166 --> 00:42:15,566 What he was arranging with his lawyers 762 00:42:15,666 --> 00:42:17,466 was a statement to be put out 763 00:42:17,566 --> 00:42:21,866 to suggest that these documents are invented by the Germans. 764 00:42:21,966 --> 00:42:24,000 I mean, why they should possibly want to do that 765 00:42:24,100 --> 00:42:26,366 given that they didn't expect them to be found. 766 00:42:31,233 --> 00:42:32,866 Churchill, now Prime Minister again, 767 00:42:32,966 --> 00:42:35,233 goes ahead, and we have the cabinet minutes 768 00:42:35,333 --> 00:42:37,766 from the 8th of December 1954, 769 00:42:37,866 --> 00:42:40,700 where they discuss the publication of this file. 770 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,833 [Tense music] 771 00:42:48,300 --> 00:42:50,800 "Matter is to be watched at each stage, 772 00:42:50,900 --> 00:42:52,900 cabinet secretariat is to be responsible 773 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,566 for warning ministers, 774 00:42:54,666 --> 00:42:58,166 particularly important to warn the stationery office." 775 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,966 When the material is published, 776 00:43:02,066 --> 00:43:03,600 there is a note with it 777 00:43:03,700 --> 00:43:05,566 playing down the role of the Duke of Windsor. 778 00:43:05,666 --> 00:43:14,633 ♪♪ 779 00:43:14,733 --> 00:43:17,133 "The Duke was subjected to heavy pressure 780 00:43:17,233 --> 00:43:19,533 from many quarters to stay in Europe, 781 00:43:19,633 --> 00:43:22,000 where the Germans hoped that he would exert influence 782 00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:25,066 against the policy of His Majesty's government. 783 00:43:25,166 --> 00:43:27,833 "His Royal Highness never wavered in his loyalty 784 00:43:27,933 --> 00:43:29,166 to the British cause. 785 00:43:29,266 --> 00:43:31,200 The German records are necessarily 786 00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:33,266 a much tainted source." 787 00:43:33,366 --> 00:43:35,600 To pretend that the Germans were trying to trick him 788 00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:38,800 and he didn't realize is, is, is frankly ridiculous. 789 00:43:42,766 --> 00:43:45,766 Churchill who'd been exasperated by the Duke during the war 790 00:43:45,866 --> 00:43:48,933 and indeed wanted as little to do with him as possible 791 00:43:49,033 --> 00:43:50,300 after the war, 792 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,566 colludes with the Duke and others 793 00:43:52,666 --> 00:43:54,700 to basically kill this story. 794 00:43:56,866 --> 00:43:59,333 -How could this incredible war time leader, 795 00:43:59,433 --> 00:44:00,766 this moral figure, 796 00:44:00,866 --> 00:44:02,466 have had all this trouble during the war 797 00:44:02,566 --> 00:44:06,866 from someone who was absolutely of mortal peril to the nation, 798 00:44:06,966 --> 00:44:10,033 and then, decades later, he defends him, 799 00:44:10,133 --> 00:44:11,933 he pretty much whitewashes him. 800 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,800 -As always, Wallis would be blamed in perpetuity. 801 00:44:17,900 --> 00:44:19,300 There is absolutely no question 802 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,000 that Wallis was any sort of Nazi sympathizer. 803 00:44:23,100 --> 00:44:25,800 She became a natural scapegoat. 804 00:44:28,666 --> 00:44:32,233 -Was it to protect the backsides of the monarchy 805 00:44:32,333 --> 00:44:33,700 in this country? 806 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,200 It's the conspiracy to conceal that's fascinating. 807 00:44:38,900 --> 00:44:40,700 -This whole episode 808 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,666 is completely extinguished from the record, 809 00:44:43,766 --> 00:44:45,366 and this is just another classic example 810 00:44:45,466 --> 00:44:47,133 of our history being censored. 811 00:44:53,633 --> 00:44:54,866 There's one last document, 812 00:44:54,966 --> 00:44:57,966 indeed perhaps, the most important document. 813 00:44:58,066 --> 00:45:01,100 It recounts a lunch that Harold Nicolson the MP had 814 00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:02,500 with Tommy Lascelles, 815 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,100 who was the private secretary to Edward, to George VI, 816 00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,400 and indeed to our current Queen. 817 00:45:08,500 --> 00:45:16,633 ♪♪ 818 00:45:16,733 --> 00:45:21,700 ♪♪ 819 00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,533 He makes, I think, a very revealing comment. 820 00:45:24,633 --> 00:45:29,733 He says, "The man is like the child in the fairy story 821 00:45:29,833 --> 00:45:32,100 who was given everything in the world, 822 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,600 but they forgot the soul." 823 00:45:38,833 --> 00:45:41,633 I think this really explains the Duke of Windsor, 824 00:45:41,733 --> 00:45:45,166 who's a man with no inner life, no self awareness, 825 00:45:45,266 --> 00:45:47,833 no sense of actually the magnitude 826 00:45:47,933 --> 00:45:51,033 of what he tried to do with the Nazis. 827 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,033 -Mark you as history has it out, 828 00:45:56,133 --> 00:45:59,033 he never did come back to this country, 829 00:45:59,133 --> 00:46:01,833 and therein maybe lies the whole truth. 830 00:46:01,933 --> 00:46:08,733 ♪♪ 831 00:46:08,833 --> 00:46:15,866 ♪♪ 832 00:46:15,966 --> 00:46:25,866 ♪♪ 833 00:46:25,966 --> 00:46:35,100 ♪♪ 834 00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:39,233 ♪♪