Edward VIII, Traitor!

After WWII the British Royal Family sent agents over Europe to grab documents regarding the former Edward VIII and his contacts with the Third Reich, specifically the possibility of his returning to the throne if England were to fall.

What if, a few months after WWII, the documents slipped through and it became established that King George VI's brother had indeed been conspiring with the Nazis in 1940? What would happen to Edward? What would happen to the Royal family for trying to cover this up?
 
After WWII the British Royal Family sent agents over Europe to grab documents regarding the former Edward VIII and his contacts with the Third Reich, specifically the possibility of his returning to the throne if England were to fall.

What if, a few months after WWII, the documents slipped through and it became established that King George VI's brother had indeed been conspiring with the Nazis in 1940? What would happen to Edward? What would happen to the Royal family for trying to cover this up?

Source please.
 
After WWII the British Royal Family sent agents over Europe to grab documents regarding the former Edward VIII and his contacts with the Third Reich, specifically the possibility of his returning to the throne if England were to fall.

What if, a few months after WWII, the documents slipped through and it became established that King George VI's brother had indeed been conspiring with the Nazis in 1940? What would happen to Edward? What would happen to the Royal family for trying to cover this up?

Probably not a lot really

IIRC half the royal family wasn't talking to him anyway, albeit due to the fallout from the abdication crisis, and he had largely to live as an exile, where-ever he went

Perhaps long-term they wouldn't settle in Paris, but Spain ?

But I don't see the British putting such a high-profile person on trial and really polarising their nation having just won the war. Get him out of the way somewhere, and tell him to fade into the background

Then pretend it never happened

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
I tend to agree with GW, nothing public would happen. He would just be totally marginalised and treated as even more of a black sheep than he was.
 
Nobody in the establishment would ever have allowed those kind of documents to slip into the public domain, and even if they had, any person who threatened to publish them would have simply been isolated and bought off.

It would have been the usual instance of a great royal coverup, of interest to historians but of no impact at the time.
 
What are these documents though? It is not a particular secret, and never really has been, that the Nazis approach him in Lisbon.

Only David Irving has ever got excited by this.
 
What are these documents though?

I imagine Grimm was talking of a hypothetical document which proved that Edward was involved in something deeply subversive. Not just the usual 'Edward talks with/about the Nazis' kind of thing
 
It isn't hypothetical that after WWII George VI sent people to get documents in Europe, particularly a large batch which his relatives in Hesse helped acquire.

It might have had nothing to do with Edward, or it might have been the old 1940 talks which Wozza refers to.


The question is what might have resulted had these documents proved that Edward had engaged in what could only be considered treasonous activities.
 
eh... Tower of London? Decapitation? :D

AFAIK he was only a sympathizer at first and never did something which could be seen as treason, but assuming a hypothetical document turns up...
 
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