Edward VIII
Where each worldview places it
"Ill-fated Nazi supporter" who abdicated in 1936 after 325 days to marry Wallis Simpson[1].
- Aliases
- Duke of Windsor
- Controls / directs
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- Answers to / controlled by
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- Dates
- 325 days (length of reign)[2]
- Author's claims · 3
- 01He went into exile at a Rothschild mansion in Austria. His Paris home, the Villa Windsor, was later bought by Al Fayed[3].
- 02Philip maintained communications with him, and Mountbatten was his biggest supporter[4].
- 03He was believed to have sympathies with Hitler; after 325 days he abdicated and moved to the Rothschild castle in Austria. Icke suggests the real reason he left Britain was "because he would not support a war with Germany, which the manipulators knew was planned"[2].