A few weeks ago, someone wrote in a newspaper outlet in the Royal section about the problems they’d had as a historian and biographer in trying to access historical royal records.
Time after time they found themselves barred from peeking into even the most mundane files, including documents which had been brought with public money specifically for the purpose of opening them to the public.
They’d been told that many royal files had been destroyed with no record kept. Others recorded in the catalogue then appeared to have been lost while some that were previously open had been mysteriously removed from the National Archives.
There appears to be a frustrating pattern to all of this.
And in the past few years, this has led this person to conclude that the Monarchy and our government are, together, permitting history to be falsified.
However, these problems are not uncommon, especially when it comes to matters relating to the discredited Duke of Windsor.
Barrister and former immigration Judge, Andrew Rose, the author of The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder: An Untold History, wrote to say that an intriguing Special Branch file on the cover-up of a murder by an ex-girlfriend of the future Duke of Windsor had been closed without warning.
Andrew Rose, always looking to update his book, had already made vast notes from the file in question, MEPO 38/151 (HRH The Prince of Wales: Protection File: 1924-1935) in July 2011.
However, when he asked to see it more recently, he was told it wasn’t available.
He also heard from Professor Adrian O’Sullivan researching a book on Charles Bedaux, the millionaire industrialist and close friend of the Duke of Windsor.
Charles Bedaux was a person of significant interest who committed suicide in strange circumstances while in FBI custody.
As Professor O’Sullivan explains that he phoned the FBI and spoke to someone (anonymous) who assured him that they had lots of stuff on Charles Bedaux and encouraged him to submit a formal FOI request to them.
This he did promptly, and several months later during the autumn of 2009, received a response from the FBI advising him that his FOI application to the FBI for the release of the Charles Bedaux records had been rejected on the grounds that, after a search of the indices to their central records system at FBI Headquarters and all FBI field offices, the Bureau was unable to identify responsive main records. Which was essentially a long-winded way of saying they didn’t have anything, after all.
The United Kingdom seems to be in the grip of rewriting all its history to appease the minorities and this is no different.
History and accounts of it should all be there for all to see and it should be made public knowledge, the good, the bad and the ugly – we don’t just want all the exemplary bits so that we can clap to them.
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emporer of India until his abdication.
After his abdication, Edward married Wallis Simpson in France after her second divorce became absolute, and later that year, the couple toured Nazi Germany, which fed rumours that he was a Nazi supporter.
Their visit was against the advice of the British government and while there they both met Adolf Hitler – the visit was much publicised by the German media, and during visits to Germany Edward gave full Nazi salutes.
In Germany, they were regaled like royalty and members of the elite would bow and curtsy towards Wallis Simpson. She was treated with all the dignity and status the duke always wanted.
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