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It almost brings me to tears the sense of community on this site. It is just like London on the Blitz, do you know the queen mother never left the palace to seek refuge from the bombings, she used to go out shovelling rubble in the Eastend every morning, bless her little heart.
And that is how we are here, all together like a big old family. When there is a problem we have a scrap and sort it out, and nothing gets done about it.
And that is how we are here, all together like a big old family. When there is a problem we have a scrap and sort it out, and nothing gets done about it.
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Although she did spend the nights outside London during the war, at Windsor Castle.
The Eastenders didn't like her 'mucking in' - mainly because she wore her very good clothes and wasn't affected by the rationing. They felt she was patronising.
Hitler hated her as well - he thought she was a very dangerous woman.
But she kept going, bless her heart.
The Eastenders didn't like her 'mucking in' - mainly because she wore her very good clothes and wasn't affected by the rationing. They felt she was patronising.
Hitler hated her as well - he thought she was a very dangerous woman.
But she kept going, bless her heart.
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Dont mention edward.
Wasnt he a bit pally with the germans ?
In 1937, the Duke and Duchess visited Germany as personal guests of Adolf Hitler, a visit much publicized by the Nazi media. The couple then settled in France. When the Germans invaded the north of France in May 1940, the Windsors fled south, first to Biarritz, then in June to Spain. In July the pair moved to Lisbon, Portugal, where they lived at first in the home of a banker with close German Embassy contacts. The British Foreign Office strenuously objected when the pair planned to tour aboard a yacht belonging to a Swedish magnate, Axel Wenner-Gren, whom American intelligence considered to be a close friend of Hermann Goering, Hitler's lieutenant. A "defeatist" interview with the Duke that received wide distribution may have served as the last straw for the British government: in August a British warship dispatched the pair to the Bahamas, where the Duke of Windsor became Governor, a post he held until after the end of World War II in 1945. Then the couple retired once again to France, where they spent much of the remainder of their lives.
In recent years, some have suggested that the Duke and (especially) the Duchess sympathised with Fascism before and during World War II, and had to remain in the Bahamas to minimize their opportunities to act on those feelings. These revised assessments of his career hinge on some wartime information released in 1996, and on further secret files released by the U.K. government in 2003. The files had remained closed for decades, as Whitehall judged that they would cause the Queen Mother substantial distress if released during her lifetime.
ooops
you cant hide your rots eh ?
sieg heil anyone for a ceegar ? :0)
Wasnt he a bit pally with the germans ?
In 1937, the Duke and Duchess visited Germany as personal guests of Adolf Hitler, a visit much publicized by the Nazi media. The couple then settled in France. When the Germans invaded the north of France in May 1940, the Windsors fled south, first to Biarritz, then in June to Spain. In July the pair moved to Lisbon, Portugal, where they lived at first in the home of a banker with close German Embassy contacts. The British Foreign Office strenuously objected when the pair planned to tour aboard a yacht belonging to a Swedish magnate, Axel Wenner-Gren, whom American intelligence considered to be a close friend of Hermann Goering, Hitler's lieutenant. A "defeatist" interview with the Duke that received wide distribution may have served as the last straw for the British government: in August a British warship dispatched the pair to the Bahamas, where the Duke of Windsor became Governor, a post he held until after the end of World War II in 1945. Then the couple retired once again to France, where they spent much of the remainder of their lives.
In recent years, some have suggested that the Duke and (especially) the Duchess sympathised with Fascism before and during World War II, and had to remain in the Bahamas to minimize their opportunities to act on those feelings. These revised assessments of his career hinge on some wartime information released in 1996, and on further secret files released by the U.K. government in 2003. The files had remained closed for decades, as Whitehall judged that they would cause the Queen Mother substantial distress if released during her lifetime.
ooops
you cant hide your rots eh ?
sieg heil anyone for a ceegar ? :0)
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