Fate Of Edward VIII Post Nazi Defeat, When They Have Ruled The UK

So, the real difficulty is to find a PoD that:
  1. Doesn't substantially alter the Abdication Crisis, or makes it worse
  2. Allows the Germans to successfully invade Great-Britain and occupy it
  3. Nonetheless has the Germans lose sometime afterwards
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I do not remember the book but....

I remember reading a alt history where Edward uses a meeting with Hitler to discuss this to shoot him......

so how about

Germans announce Edward as new King
Brit govenment in exile calls him a traitor - he is stripped of titles etc
Edward gets to meet Hitler and shoots him being killed by SS guards seconds later
Brits honnor his actions
Germans do better in the war as a result of not having that idiot in charge.....
 
WI Edward VIII declares his abdication and George VI-s accession to have been valid all along - BUT offers to accept the throne again from a "free parliament"?

Compare Dutch conquest of England in 1688. England was conquered by regular Dutch army hired and authorized by the States-General of the Republic of United Provinces. Then a Convention Parliament called by the occupying forces and elected during Dutch military occupation "deemed" James II to "have abdicated" by evacuating the realm - and offered the throne to Williamandmary, who just happened to be the Captain-General of the occupation army. (Scotch parliament could not call actions of James II "abdication" because he was not in Scotland to begin with - they were simply willing to call the throne forfeit for misgovernment.)

Note that James II did, in fact, fight for his loyal realm of Ireland all that time.

If Germans manage to conquer Great Britain and George VI chose to flee to Canada, could they call George VI abdicated or deposed despite his holding out in Canada, by analogy with removing James II while holding out in Ireland?

Would elections of Parliament be held in occupied Great Britain where much of the old political elite would have evacuated to Canada? Elections were, in fact, overdue - the Parliament elected in 1935 chose to sit till 1945 without calling a general election.

Who would have fled to Canada, who´d be held in prison by the occupants, who would stand for election but lose at the polls, and who would take seats in Occupation Parliament?

What would James II have done to the persons of Williamandmary when captured alive in Jacobite restoration? And what would James III have done to Anne? George I? George II?
 
While the Germans might set up extermination camps in the UK to "deal" with the Jews, given how crowded the UK is and how this sort of thing was usually done in the boonies, expect them to be shipped off to the continent & beyond. For example, French Jews (a large population) were shipped east rather than dealt with locally. Especially with the actions of the King of Denmark as an example, failure of EVIII to do anything about this would easily be upped to war crime...


Nuremberg! He and Goering can play cards.
 
...Doubtless too they would be making regular propaganda broadcasts back into the UK denouncing Mr Simpson (that the exiled monarchy would formally strip him of all honorifics is I think a no-brainer...

Er, what would Wallis's ex-husband have to do with any of this? ;) If he was stripped of his titles he'd be "Mr Edward Windsor". His brother can simply issue letters patent stipping him of the "HRH" and title of prince, but it would take an act of Parliament to revoke his dukedom. Attainder-by-verdict was abolished in 1870, so he'd keep his title even after being convicted of treason. His title would also mean his trial would take place in the House of Lords; with the Lord Chancellor as judge and the peerage as a jury.

I don't think that it could confer any particular advantage on Edward, other than creating a public spectacle the new government may or may not want. Parliament could of course simply abolish that right and direct him to be tried in whatever special court or tribunal was set up to punish major collaborators. Or just pass a bill of attainder and declare him guilty of treason as a matter of law without bothering with a trial (this was what Churchill had wanted to do with Nazi war criminals).

One things for sure, Edward would not be spared. The only way for him to avoid execution would be suicide. The OP's scenario is a very different one that what happened in Belgium. Leopold III was the lawful King of the Belgians when the Germans invaded and didn't actively collaborate with the Germans (he was a prisoner-of-war, albeit one held under house arrest instead of in a camp); Edward would be a usurper and actively collaborating with the Germans (by making speeches written by them, presiding of whatever puppet government they installed, etc).

I guess she would be deported to the US, where she'd be tried and executed for treason, unless of course the US remains neutral.

If Wallis was tried for treason it would be in the United Kingdom (where she'd have the same right to a trial in the House of Lords as her husband). She would've automatically became a British subject when she married Edward, and I'm not sure, but I think in the 1930s American women lost their citizenship if they marred a foreigner.
 
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