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The Marburg Files, also known as the Windsor Files or Duke of Windsor Files, are a series of top-secret documents discovered in Germany during May 1945 near the Harz Mountains and compiled at Marburg Castle, Hesse.
Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.
The future Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in 1934. They were married in June 1937. Operation Willi was the German code name for the unsuccessful attempt by the SS to kidnap Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor in July 1940 and induce him to work with German dictator Adolf Hitler for either a peace settlement with Britain, or a restoration to the throne after the German conquest of the United Kingdom.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were sympathetic to Nazi Germany, and Queen Victoria's grandson, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was a member of the Nazi party. ... The Marburg Files of 1957 ...
The former French country home of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson was listed for £5.6 million in 2019. Here's a look at the property.
Duke of Windsor was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 8 March 1937 for the former monarch Edward VIII , following his abdication on 11 December 1936. The dukedom takes its name from the town where Windsor Castle , a residence of English monarchs since the time of Henry I , following the Norman Conquest , is situated.
Queen Elizabeth II visited her estranged uncle Edward VIII, a.k.a. the Duke of Windsor, in France before he died. Here's what really happened that day.
However, following her informing of The Marburg Files, detailing facts of the Duke's relationship with Nazi Germany and further damning information from former private secretary Tommy Lascelles, and continuing animosity from the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Prince Philip, she admonishes him and asks him to return to Britain only at the ...