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Roosevelt ordered surveillance of Windsors
Rob Evans and David Hencke
Saturday June 29, 2002
The Guardian
President Roosevelt personally ordered covert surveillance on the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor during the second world war after receiving intelligence that the
duchess had been passing secrets to a top Nazi with whom she was alleged to have
had a tempestous affair, according to documents released to the Guardian by the
FBI.
The damning dossier - released for the first time by the intelligence agency - shows
that the main reason why the Americans thought the abdication of Edward VIII had
taken place in 1936 was because the duchess fervently supported the Nazi regime
and this was totally unacceptable to the then Conservative prime minister, Stanley
Baldwin. The official view has always been that he abdicated to marry the person he
loved but could not stay on the throne because she was a divorcee.
The papers show that the FBI was told by a minor German royal that Wallis
Simpson was having an affair with Joachim von Ribbentrop, who was then German
ambassador to Britain, while she was seeing the Duke of Windsor.
The minor royal, Duke Charles Alexander of Wurttemberg, who later became a
Franciscan monk, said that "he knew definitely that von Ribbentrop, while in
England, sent the then Wallis Simpson 17 carnations every day. The 17 supposedly
represented the number of times they had slept together."
Later the FBI reported that while in exile in France, the duchess was in regular
contact with von Ribbentrop, then promoted by Hitler to foreign minister, and was
leaking secrets to him. They were then exiled again to the Bahamas.
The US intelligence operation began in 1941 when the couple came over from the
Bahamas to spend a long weekend in Palm Beach, Florida, and were tailed by a
FBI agent who had to fool both the Windsors and the US secret service on the
orders of President Roosevelt. The FBI also reported that the duke was intoxicated
and incapable for much of the time at the beginning of the war.
The papers also contain reports from a party in Paris that the duchess told guests
that the duke was impotent and she was the only person who could satisfy his
sexual desires.
The documents fuel the long-running controversy over allegations that the disloyal
pair secretly admired fascism and that he was lined up to return to the throne if
Hitler had conquered Britain.
The FBI first refused to release the documents to the Guardian but the paper
appealed against the decision, and as a result 227 new pages - including
intelligence reports of the operation and interviews with informants - have been
disclosed.
The release comes at a sensitive time as the British public record office has not yet
released similar documents which cover this period in deference to the sensibilities
of the late Queen Mother.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2002
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