Well what can I say ? The guy Edward has always been a disaster.
Many historians have suggested that Hitler was prepared to reinstate Edward as King in the hope of establishing a fascist Britain.
It is widely believed that the Duke and Duchess sympathised with fascism before and during the Second World War, and were moved to the Bahamas to minimise their opportunities to act on those feelings.
The Allies became sufficiently disturbed by the German plots that FDR ordered covert surveillance of Ed and his wife when they visited Palm Beach, Florida, in April 1941.
In the mid-30s, there were plenty of Brits who were at least intrigued with, if not fully supportive of an alliance with Nazi Germany against Bolshevism. Germany could have her empire in the east, while the British could still have their empire. It seemed fair to them, ‘we have our empire, why not let them have theirs’?’
Hitler truly thought back then he could have gotten that deal, when the Brits spurned him, like a jealous lover, Hitler turned on them. But such an alliance was much closer then than most people realize. They almost drummed Churchill out of Parliament, because back then he was one of the few who spoke out as to what kind of madman Hitler was.